Thread: Lost my spyderco

Today I lost my spyderco delica.
I had it clipped in my pocket. We went out with the kids, and when I got home, it was missing.
Double bummer is that it was something my wife and I bought on my honeymoon.

When I told my wife, she was actually genuinely sorry for me. I had not expected that since she does not care particularly about knives, but she knew I cared about that knife. Couple of minutes later, she told me to choose a new one, and she'd buy it for me
Woot! My wife is the best.
I am thinking of choosing a new Delica. I just have to decide whether to pick VG10 or ZDP189 steel.

If I believed in such things, I would think it was waiting to happen. I already 'almost' lost it several times recently. Today it must have fallen in the sand somewhere so I didn't hear it go. I just hope someone finds it who will care for it.

Sorry to hear that Bruno! You get attached to things like that I find.

Hope your new one is as precious to you as the last!

Sorry to hear that Bruno, loosing nice things is a bite. If I may suggest, whatever new knife/knives you are weighing around, this guy does great, comprehensive reviews on knives, as well as firearms, tac gear, and lots of other stuff. Perhaps he could shed some light on a knife you are curious about.
YouTube - nutnfancy's Channel

Thanks. They had some nice info.
I made up my mind and decided to go with the VG10.
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Now I just need to choose whether I want a colored handle, and choose between flat ground or sabre ground

i'm a knife guy the ZDP189 steel is the best steel one can buy it will hold an edge longer then any other steel you have but remember this the harder the steel the more difficult it is to hone

I decided to go with flat ground, since I'll be using it mostly for cutting carboard, rope, etc and the blade is thinner.
For the flat ground, I read that ZDP is harder to hone and sometimes has a warp from the factory. Otoh, VG10 is supposedly significantly easier to hone (which is important to me), does not have the warp issue and has better resistance to water damage.

To each his own. I own the Caly3 with ZDP and love the ZDP steel. But VG-10 is very good as well. The flat ground spyderco's are like lasers.

Dammit Bruno ! I'm sorry you lost your knife but now you've got me looking at Spyderco knives on ebay I'm leaning toward a Spyderco stretch.

I carry a Spyderco Endura 50/50 Clipit daily. I would feel lost without it.

While the stretch is a nice blade, I am going with the Delica because it is fairly compact and smallish. I don't want it to look too much like a weapon. 3 inches of blade is sufficient for a general purpose utility knife. I hope I get a new one soon because I feel naked without it.

And if the option existed, I'd pick a plain jane carbon steel blade instead of the fancy wonder steels. First it was ATS-55, then S30V, then Cr3MoV8 (or whatever) then VG10, now ZDP189... I suspect they just change steel to something more exotic sounding every 1 or 2 years to keep the knife nuts buying knives.

I can understand picking VG10 or H1 for wet / salty environments. Other than that, ... meh.
Steels like S30V and ZDP189 might have better edge retention, but they are (reportedly) also more prone to chipping, and bitches to hone, which defeats the purpose imo.