Finally Bought It Spyderco Delica 4 EDC Knife Nice

[white cloud]

I have no idea why the Delica was named Delica. Those knives are anything but delicate.

 

[rbmac52]

I've got a couple dozen Spyderco knives around here. Always been my favorite.

 

[CA Escapee]

I didn't really get the hype on those until I found one (a Delica 2) at a garage sale for $3 about a month back. After some work with a stone (the prior owner appears to have been incapable of sharpening it properly), I tossed it in my pocket and found it immensely useful.

I think it's the thinness of it overall, it's light, its thin, but its just a really good steel, with a real nice comfortable design.

I should note that I am quite...bad with a stone, I only got one when I found a pair of Wusthof knives at the thrift shop and decided this was the perfect opportunity to learn. Since then I've been scouring thrift shops and garage sales for Wusthofs, and have become...someone who doesn't actually damage the knife using a stone. Although I am thinking I should pick up a spyderco sharpmaker now that I know a bit about sharpening knives, and know that I may never become good enough at it to hold the proper angle consistently enough.

In any case, this was $3 very well spent:

and I consider this $7.25 very very well spent:

Sixgun,

That's actually a Delica 3 you've got there, and still a bargain at $3! I've got an "accumulation" of all four generations of the Delicas. My Delica 3 has the Combination Edge in the middle of the stack below. I carried mine for years.

 

[CA Escapee]

I've had my first gen daily carry Delica since 1991.
Best knife ever!
I have its twin in a serrated edge for camping, etc. plus a couple more as spares.

I've got one of each, too. Mine are from '93 or '94 though. The clip on the Plain Edge got snagged one to many times and finally snapped off. I kept the knife and took it to the Spyderco factory in Golden where they ground the stub flush, drilled and tapped three holes, and put a metal clip on it.

 

[Dougaz]

OK - I give up

I've got 2 or 3 Buck brand knives that I bought 30 years ago but a couple of months ago, my BIL gave me this Helle knife.

I'm not a blade guy but you guys are.

Is this real brand and what the heck do you do with it? Whittle fire wood??

 

[6518John]

Helle Kinves.

That's an excellent, hand-made, expensive, general purpose knife. That is a Helle ARV.

 

[Marshwheeling]

When you think of Swedish knives, Mora is the name you think of first. With Norway, it's Helle. Another way of putting it would be, it's the only Norwegian knife anybody ever heard of.
In Scandanavia, people use Scandi-ground knives for all sorts of tasks, not just woodworking. I have never had a Helle, but I use mu Moras and Marttiinis for all sorts of things, including food prep.

 

[Modified]

Sixgun,

That's actually a Delica 3 you've got there, and still a bargain at $3! I've got an "accumulation" of all four generations of the Delicas. My Delica 3 has the Combination Edge in the middle of the stack below. I carried mine for years.

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Shows what I know!

In any case, it's a great knife and I get the hype, which isn't hype.

I'm really curious though to find out how my stepfather likes it, I sent it to him, and he's carried old carbon steel pocket knives all his life because he can put an edge on them. I made him promise to carry this one for a while, still waiting to hear the report.

I expect he's going to really like the thing.