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Through my years wearing a uniform on the street I carried many a different lockblade folding knife and the assortment included several Spyderco knives.
The Spyderco Manix II - A Review
Way "back in the day" I picked up my first Spyderco knife - an Endura. Through my years wearing a uniform on the street I carried many a different lockblade folding knife and the assortment included other variations on that basic Endura design. Spyderco knives all have that trademark thumbhole and most of the ones I've owned have the plastic/synthetic grips I've grown accustomed to. The early variants had a molded plastic pocket clip but that has changed to steel across the years. Recently I received Spyderco's Manix 2 to field test and I've come away quite pleased.
Specifically this is the Manix 2 Lightweight folding knife. Its evolution traces back to the original Spyderco Manix released in 2004. In 2006 the full-sized C95 Manix spun off a smaller version call the C101 which was essentially the full size Manix shrunk to a handier size package.
The original Manix 2 featured...