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Well, there’s no denying that Spydercos are fantastic knives. I wouldn’t fault you either way. I actually used my Pacific Salt twice in the water recently once to cut up a Starbucks cup to lay flat and stuff it in the wetsuit to throw away later and again to pop some party balloons that were floating on the water and trash later. I’ve gotten just a little shit saying I’m lnever going to need a knife in the water so why bother?” To which I say (most in my head) really unglamorous crap so far but it was super useful! 🤙

Yup made in Germany. I've had it for nearly 30 years

@@TacticalBunnyCA that’s amazing I love the old German knives, got a few hen a rooster from around 1945-1980 two Damascus trappers and a Cheetah knife all signed by Michael prater, they are all beautiful

@@winterclient4986 I'll post a video on it then. It's mot mint by any stretch of the imagination but it's still super unique.

@@TacticalBunnyCA still looks beautiful, most tell a story when they are used so it kinda adds to the knife a bit, all the old German knives I have are mint with boxes and if not mint then pretty close to that, I have a old bulldog anniversary, I really need to post my knives on here lol

Ummmm yeah I am. It is in good shape but definitely not mint so I won't make you pay extra though. I'd like to get around two hundred. Email me at brandonssocalsurfreport@gmail.com and we'll figure out the details.

Sweet! Just emailed you! 🤘

100% agreed. I got the regular BL Sheepdog for Easter and I love it so much I'm now considering getting the mini version as well, and looking up reviews to spot if it has any problems (other than the lack of fob mount (i got used to utilizing fobs through the years). This vid has not deterred me.

Was that me or one of the other replies? As a dyslexic (actually professionally diagnosed I’m not just deflecting inattentiveness) I do my best but never promise perfect spelling or grammar because it never happens! 😅

@@TacticalBunnyCA my bad man Jesus sorry for being a fuckin asshole. Good video 👍🏻👍🏻

@@Sammysosa518 No worries not an ass whole <-(hole) move. I’d correct it if I could but once a video is posted it be posted. I’ve made the same kind of comment too though. I just can’t always visualize it correctly …especially when spell-check is doing its thing it is super easy for me to mis.

@@TacticalBunnyCA yeah man I totally get that. Keep up the good content man!!

Everything I had while was there was tremendous including the croissant thingy.

That might actually be an insult to gas station knives… 🤔

Well, the knife was completely necessary for what I used it for, cutting boxes, tape, shrink wrap, bubble wrap etc. For 99.9% of the population in places where I have lived any weapon for defensive use, is 100% unnecessary for their entire life. Carrying any tool for defense is a practice and philosophy of not being an easy victim of random evil violence more so then a necessity. So the reason I had the knife was 99.9% primarily for utility. The factor for mentioning crime is that several stores that I would have preferred to go to pick up a knife my sister told me had closed their doors in the downtown because of shoplifting. As far as crime I did see one person defecting on the side walk not far from Pikes place market which has to be at least one crime and did indicate at least some level in of mental instability that could also possibly indicate violent behavior. And a I also saw group of dude openly freebasing on another sidewalk while we were commuting from the hotel to her home about a three miles away which is just shady af and I don’t generally trust shady af dudes.

@@TacticalBunnyCA That's been Seattle since the 1980s. The street between Pike Place and Westlake used to be known as Crack Alley. Tourists used to be told to avoid it.

$15 ish. I wasn’t expecting much at all but decided I’d capitalize on it sense I have a TH-cam channel where I review knives! But I could point to a few knives in this price range that are better designed and have better steel.

I get where you’re coming from but with respect I disagree. I’ve worked on plenty of construction sites with a variety of different knives in my pocked none of which where a primary tool nor would have benefited from trash steel or been more safe by adding an extra convoluted step to their operation.

my intent was to open you up to thinking about a knife in a unbiased manner cause some are made for specific places and things.

@@anthonyrollins9825 And again with respect I disagree with your “overly safe overly difficult but safe” premise. Using the term “unbiased” in this instance is trying to infer a prejudice which I do not have. What I have is experience, decades of experience including experience in the scenario you describe. I could brake it down point by point but to be honest it is not worth my time. I am not going to agree with you that it is an abundantly safe tool in comparison to others like it. You will notice that I did not deride the knife for factors like its country of origin or it’s price which are superfluous to its function.

If they still have it for a fare price I doubt it’d depreciate especially with the pocket clip is intact. As you can tell I’ve really enjoyed this one, it’s one of the last knives I’d sell ever out of my collection.

It was lots of work but she fead me very well and I enjoyed the city for it’s good points.

Solid carbide drill it in a drill press and a metric shit ton of cutting oil.

I’ve never trusted myself with stones for a really perfect edge. I could always get a working edge that could just shave some hair off my arm but not a true hair splitter. That’s why I use a consistent angle sharpener but also the edges of my free hand stones all had chips in the edge of your stone which I could see easily dinking up the recurve edge. I have Developed a system that I can do a free hand. Starting with the harbor, freight belt sander, then going to a steel rod for the rough work, then the for finishing I use the edge of with a car glass window, and finally a basic 2 sided sidded stropping. The unusual part is the window. Although it’s bulky, I keep a loose car glass window from the junk yard so that I can use it’s myriad of shapes around its radius to match the different edge possibilities flat, recurve, hollow and Scandi etc. It’s no good for a mirror polish, that’s for damn sure, but it does give me hair shaving edge on the first pass every time. It has kind of pushed my fixed angle, sharpening system into obsolescence, unless I am putting a mirror polish on a particularly expensive knife more for an aesthetic purpose then any functional reason.

I actually had a the same problem. Sense it is a secondary knife I was thinking of carrying is lefty but I started strip the same screw a bit so just screwed it back in and then let it be. I wrote it up to the screw steel being a little too soft but you may have a point there as well.

Plain edge is the way to go most of the time.

Carbon fibre?

That is one handed tho. He just pulls the orange tab and the tension between the elbow cord and the hole gets the knife to open. The faster you do it the more fluent it is because it’s a back lock. Backlocks tends to shut down close the blade because of the nature of the blade, you need more tension to open it (it’s hard to impossible to flick a spyderco backlock open)

@@clintwestwood3539 Thumb hole is for one handed opening. That’s why it was designed…

The first thing that come to mind is digging splinters. But anything where you might need to dig or bore with the tip is where I'd ding the cleaver. Which really the Nightshade isn't perfect for either because of the crowning on the spine. My al time favorite acute knife tip is the SOG Aegis (Mini or regular).

To effect a pocket deployment like an Emerson wave. It function over form in this case for me.

I just checked and it's still available from the Amazon.

@@TacticalBunnyCA says currently unavailable, but I am in Malaysia…who knows.

Lasers are so cool! I've only done a little sailing as a kid on my uncles Thistle. It always felt like a sea-slug with Hobbycats and lasers flying by but as I look back it was a super cool experience. 🥲 If your looking to a sailing knife as a pure emergency tool as apposed to a utility option I would think about about something more focused on cutting rope like a hawkbil or Warrecliff shape with a serrated edge. Hawkbills, especially serrated ones, have their drawbacks (namely sharpening and it's probably best to send out any recurved aka hawkbill aka curved and serrated edge knives out for professional sharpening unlessyou reallyknow waht you doing) but if you never plan on using it except in an emergency the edge will always be fresh anyway, and because of the hooked shape and bitey serrations there's nothing you can rely on more to go through rope in one pass. www.bladehq.com/item--Spyderco-Tasman-Salt-2-Lock-Back--71336 The Pacific Salt like I'm reviewing here is a better left with a straight edge if you want more of a utility knife so you can maintain the edge as you use it (even a kitche rod will keep it servicable for years and years) but... if you were a mega knife nerd like me 🤓 you'd have both ready to go for either circumstance. Lastly but super impotant! Spyderco knives are notorious for being counterfeited! Be sure to buy from a reputable dealer. Even Amazon can occasionally send out knock offs. If you ever get the slightest rust spot on a Spyderco Salt series you'll know it's not genuine.

Thistles are fun and a very competitive group, I'd love to race on one! Finding consistent crew for a boat is challenging, that's why I decided to start sailing a laser. Racing with a crew I really need a knife with a sheepsfoot. It helps prevent stabbing a teammate which makes the deck slippery. (a bit of dark humor 😅). I really appreciate you posting this tip, thank you! @@TacticalBunnyCA

The knife I currently have is not easily accessible in an emergency. After many hours of searching I almost feel more confused. I really like Spyderco but I'm not sure which one? I really like the Yellow so I bought the Manbug salt, it just arrived but wow, it's much smaller than I imagined. Now I'm looking at the Assist salt, Saver Salt and the Atlantic salt, which seems to be sold out everywhere. I have no idea what the difference is with these knives and which would be the best fit for me. Love to have your input :)

@@maesailor OK there's a little bit to tackle there. First Spyderco uses two steels in their salt line H2 (yellow handles) and Lc200n (green handles). Both are impervious to corrosion but the H2 (a slightly updated version of their venerable H1) is a softer steel that'll loos it edge somewhat quicker with use, so I'd recommend using that steel if it's an "only use in emergencies knife" and saving a bit of money and it is better suited to a serrated edge(which is both bitier in against rope and a more durable/slower dulling edge). The Lc200n is a harder steel and will hold an edge much longer but is a bit more expensive so I'd suggest it is a better option if you plan on using the knife quite a bit as a utility tool and it would be better with a straight edge, as straight edges are much easier to sharpen when they do need sharpening. All the designs you are looking at seem to me to be right in line with the philosophy of sailing emergency use knife. The Manbug is quite small and lacks a pocket clip so it's design leans towards a key chain or purse knife. Personally I might vere toward the Saver or Atlantic because I do like to have a bit of a pokey tip. The assist is specifically designed for sliding between someone's skin and a strap or rope of some kind. Like a paramedic would use to cut someone's seat belt away in a crashed car. If it's for cutting sailing rope I do not quite imagine needing to get betwee the skin and a rope as much as cutting rope as far as possible away from the subject and then untying the remnant after the individual has been freed. 🤔 If price isn't a major usue (none of them are really cheap anyway) you could look a the Caribbean. It's a very "sheepsfooty" blade shape only Lc200n though but either serrated or straight edge options are available. And its locking mechanism is great for one handed closing because as it keeps your fingers completely clear of the blade gap when closing it ...one handed 🙄. Hope that helps. Ps. I'd definitely think of putting a lanyard on any on the knives you go with. Either actually strapped to your person or just a short stretch for easier extraction. With either a coiled rubbery strategy or 550 cord.

@@maesailor both KnifeCenter and Bladehq are places I have had positive customer transactions and it look like knifecenter has at least some of the knives you looking at. www.knifecenter.com/series/spyderco-knives/spyderco-salt Here is the Spyderco Caribbean I suggested at knivesplus. I've ordered from them only personally but I had no problems and have have seen plenty of respected knife tube videos refers to them positively. www.knivesplus.com/spyderco-caribbean-rust-proof-knife-c217gssf.html

Maybe I should have said a little bit more to this point my goal with these videos is not to drone on ad nauseam and sometimes in my rush to keep these videos digestible (under 10 minutes is my goal) I’ll drop the ball. What I was getting at is that there are internal parts of the knife that you cannot clean thoroughly without completely disassembling it. Because of the internal parts of the axis lock and the hollow scales over the skeletonised frame there are parts of the knife that cannot even be seen let alone cleaned without taking it apart, that for me is a deal breaker as a kitchen tool. I’m sure if you were very careful you could keep the handle clean by simply not letting contaminants get near it however, I am not that meticulous, and I am certain that eventually I would just get small food particles in between the hollow of the scale and the skeletonized frame. Not to mention just general floating dust and pocket lint that always find its way into the nooks and crannies of a knife. It’s amazing how dirty a knife can get just sitting around with aging lubricants and dust in the air. To your points about the blade shape and geometry, I did do just a little chopping of some onions and sweet potatoes just to see how it performed and I completely agree the blade design itself is infinitely suited to food prep. The 14c28n steel holds an edge fantastically well and is very rust resistant, two very good qualities in a kitchen knife. The steel is so rust resistant I guess you could fully submerge it in soapy water and rinse but even with that I would trust neither the brass washers or the axis lock springs not to rust or corrode eventually, once again those being part of a knife that are in accessible unless the knife is completely disassembled. The Oknife website us.obuy.com has a great cutaway picture of the internals of the knife. If you don’t want to disassemble it to see what I’m talking about. But I’d love to see a reply video if you want to disassemble your knife and show me how clean your knife is on the inside. I wish this exact blade and handle design could be built in the materials and locking mechanism of my Spyderco pacific salt and in that situation. I would fully consider it to be an excellent kitchen tool.

No worries thanks for watching. The zipties are for "waving" the knife out of my pocket. This is a term referring to Emerson knives who innovated a tab on the spine of the blade the cause the knife to deploy when pulled from the pocket aka "pocket deployment". Personally I feel this is the fastest way to open a pocket knife and prefer to use this system for my larger knives. Cold Steel has a thumbplate that performs the same action and there are many companies that license the "wave" shape from Emerson knives.

@TacticalBunnyCA sweet trick. I know about the emerson wave but did not know you could pull of the same trick with zipties. Thanks CA bro

@@cheatobandito Damn I hope I didn't come off as condescending then. I just wanted to give a thoroughly answer incase you didn't know.

@TacticalBunnyCA not at all, man. I took it as an informative reply. 👍 I'm looking forward to your next video. Do you ever go to CCKS?

@@cheatobandito Haven't been to a knife show. Tbh: I just can't afford a knife shopping spree but it might be worth going for interesting channel content.

On the PacSalt: agreed but I'm sure you'd have to agree that both have a nasty bite. Oknife: The exact knife with a re-brand or rough pattern? I'm aware that alot of brands sub out their ...brands 😅 to other manufacturers but I thought the Oknife had a it's own finishing accents. I've chipped the blade of an Aus8 Spartan batonning loads of firewood but had enough of the blade left that I was able to continue splitting loads more with no futher problems but with out the slightest hint of compromising the lock up, "bank vault" would be a reasonable description but that is with the full steel liners. I hope you had CS replace it under warranty. I think the problem with my chip was more a combination of lower quality steel and the inherent weakness of a hollow ground and the recurve blade (the chip occurred at the base basically eliminating the recurve).

Yeah for aesthetic accents the red stands out on both but the Nightshade is overall smaller the the freak, hence the comparison to the mini bugout on pure stats. Bottom line for me is it's a pound for pound contender with the absolute best of the best.

The zip-tie is only for regular edc "Emerson" deployment. The zip-tie or zip-ties (many) will just slide backwards over the thumb ramp and jimping portion on the spine and I wanted a solution that involved only one zip-tie. It functions fantastic and is drilled specific to fit a mini zip making it very low profile.

In 25 years of surfing at around 5 to 20 times a month I can only think of one time where I really needed a knife. My friend got tangled in loose fishing line next to a pier, he got one sevear laceration and sever medium/minors a bevie of bruises and both his board and my board were heavily damaged. Si my odds of ever needing it are extremely low but you never know... Yeah I have gripes too. I have gone through several variations of this system. What you can't tell from this clip, that I'll just tell you now, is that the knife can come out without opening as well and it's only when I give the final tug on the pommel side lanyard where it opens quickly. Getting the length of 550 cord exactly right makes all the difference in the world for this system! But I may try other variations when it's full suit season again. The only thing about this system is once it's open I am committed to at least closing the blade before being able to paddling again but although it is a little awkward I can paddle wile holding it in my hand.

@TacticalBunnyCA o wow that story was wild I'm glad he's ok. I'm glad you have a knife just respect that thing because spyderco serrations are nasty, known to be the best in the industry, and if you ever got cut by those serrations, it's gonna be nasty, good luck.

@@bullridermusic2054Agreed care is wise and it's certainly something Im not ever itching to ever need. But actually I customized the serrations and they're even more nasty then factory if you can believethat (I have a full review on my channel). But in short each serration has a Compound v-grind edge with really spikey teeth in the back and flat top serrations in the front that have a 1500 grit semi mirror pollish. I have a KME consistent Angle Sharpener that let's me do some wild stuff with recurves and serrations... on top of sharpening regular mirror pollish straight edges.

@TacticalBunnyCA OMG dude I've had the the Wicked Edge, now I have the Work Sharp cause I just didn't need how expensive it was and there were things that were fucked up on it. I wish I had the KME...that's crazy you did that with your serrations, cut through rope or any harder material like nothing, scary.

I don't think it's that a simple. I am aware of the Emerson Wave cut on the Edura and Delica and as a welder I could replicate the gind fairly easily and did consider it. But those knives have a flat stock that tranitions to a hollow below the wave cut which means that there's more strength throughout entire wave cut as has has the same thickness . While I do doubt that the integrity of my ffg blade would be that compromised I do thin it would be weaker then the Spyderco design and additionally I do not care for taking away from the broadness (edge to spine) of the blade. The zip-tie itself does a fantastic job Wave-deploying the blade and being a mini-zip that I've rounded the corners on it doesn't tend to obstruct the cutting path like some larger thumb studs can occasionally do.

@TacticalBunnyCA Fair enough. To each their own. It actually is that simple though. I've done it twice and works like a charm, but both blades had a sabre grind. One was a delica, and the other a Kershaw Eris. They both work well and the notch was only about 2.5mm deep on both, which really didn't take much away from the strength of the blades. You don't need to replicate an emerson wave, just a little notch, enough to catch on your pocket is all it takes.

@TacticalBunnyCA I did pretty much the same thing this guy did (only way cleaner and a bit smaller) th-cam.com/video/oWM8Klb1RB8/w-d-xo.html

@@flatasacueball6326 Many ways to skin a... something or other. I am a fan of the tiptie system either way though I know it's a complete eye sore for so many but yeah "to each their own"!

They work fine for me, very comfy and quite reasonably clear. More over I tend to loose them long before they ever have the chance to go bad. I have 2 1/2 sets right now and haven't had to re-up in a few months but it's nice to know I don't have to stress if I misplace one.