Rob’s Spyderco Collection

Although it took me a couple of weeks to find time for some text and a picture, both are finished now. This time I am not really satisfied with the picture so I’ll probably redo it later. I’ve also added a bigger version of the picture below to the my knife gallery

I also wrote a short review with my first impressions which can be found in the review-section of my page or you can go to my review directly by clicking the graphic below.

Cheers, Rob

Since the C122 Tenacious is the first model from Spyderco which is made in China and its quite low price I became courious about it and ordered one. I am a bit short on time right now so pictures and a review will follow. All I can say at the moment is that I am really impressed what kind of knife you can get for such a low price!

Until I’ve time enough to take a nice picture and write a review, I’ve decided to test a video-plugin for my site which I found lately to give you at least some impressions of the knife. Just some quick and dirty made macro shots in black and white…

Cheers, Rob

Since it became a bit confusing to manage ~ 30 single pages that held the pictures from my little gallery, I decided that I had to find a better solution. Namely this solution is a plugin called “Lightbox”. It displays pictures as an overlay to the site and should work with most modern browsers. On older browsers it will open the pictures in a new window - which is actually not desirable but better than seeing nothing Here’s an example of how it works:

If you’ve been on this page before, I am sure that you’ve noticed that the size of the picture is way larger than it used to be. After I’ve recieved many requests for bigger pictures, I thought that it actually would be a good idea I’ve already changed my knives-page with the new lightbox-feature and added bigger pictures wherever I still had the originals on my HDD. As for the others, I am going to take new ones because some of them are already 4 years old and of bad quality anway. The smaller pics like the one in my previous post will be kept for posting here on the main page but the single pages that were used to accumulate the pictures for each model will be deleted soon.

I’ve also enabled caching for my site because in the past couple of weeks the site was not as responsive as it used to be. I hope it now runs a little bit faster. The only thing I know at the moment is, that the fault does not seem to be on my end.

Cheers, Rob

It’s been some time ago since I last updated my website, so now some things come together. First of all I’d like to introduce you to the newest member of my Dragonfly family: The C28PWH sprint-run model:

It’s a very nice knife but to be honest, it’s kind of difficult to get accustomed to the white handle when almost all other knives in my collection are either black or SS…

If the picture looks way too bright, please excuse me but my monitor is currently giving up it’s ghost and in connection with this fact it displays everything a bit too dark with no possibility to correct that. I’ll have a look at it on the weekend when I have access to another monitor and see if it needs to be fixed…

Just as a funny sidenote about this sprint-run model: While I was waiting to get my new Dragonfly I was browsing eBay a bit to see if any interesting Spydercos are up for auction. Suddenly one of the gallery pictures for a C28PWH cought my attention because it somehow didn’t look right. When I took a closer look at the auction I found this:

After asking around if anyone else had seen this crazy mockup picture, I learned that it already had been topic of a discussion on Spyderco’s forums and ( this is the shocking part) that this picture is also in use by a couple of wholesalers. I don’t know where this picture originated but what were they thinking?!? There are plenty of pics of this knife on the web and even on Spyderco’s own website, so why combine the handle of a sprint-run Endura with the blade of the Dragonfly? Even more funny that this pic is still online at mo**ng.com

Oh BTW, since the C28PWH was not on my PDF-overview of all Dragonfly models, I added it and the new PDF can be found here (just click on the pic below) aswell as in the download section and in the article about the history of the C28:

I also updated the “pins”-section of my website with something new - a commemorative coin from this year’s Spyderco meeting in Leeds (UK):

What else? In the past couple of months I recieved quite a number of emails from visitors of this site with questions about knives they had, wanted to buy, that needed identification or just general questions about the topic. First of all: Thank you very much for visiting my humble website and getting in contact with me. I always enjoy helping fellow Spyderco enthusiasts if I can. And it’s also good to get some feedback other that seeing the visitor counter going up continously If you have any questions about this site or need help, please do not hesitate to hit that email-button on the right, or simply post here.

Cheers, Rob

An another update! This time I’ve added the other two Dragonfly models that I got lately. The first one is the new SS handled model with VG-10 blade:

The other one is a C28PBK with the bug on it’s AUS-8 blade. Just as the model that I’ve added yesterday, this one was also only officially around for two years. This years model will also feature a VG-10 blade:

Now the Dragonfly page in my “knives”-section is getting a bit long as it is featuring 8 different models at the moment.

I’ve also added two new pins to my collection: One of the Centofante model that I got from a friend as a present and the other one is a Byrd-Knife pin:

Cheers, Rob