Today, we'll take a look at a knife that looks a lot like the Endura, but once you pop it open, is absolutely not the Endura: The Spyderco Pacific Salt 2
If I can find a job in time for Christmas I plan on getting 2 of these for my son and I. We are both fishing enthusiasts and I've been waiting for these to drop but unfortunately times are tough.
I understand you man; i hope it all gets better for you before holiday season. The world isn’t being fair. My honest opinion; look for retail positions. Target if possible; they’re regular pay for any position is $15 and team lead is $21-$26
@@gearfireman Damn man; where i live in Arkansas there’s factories that can’t keep people. I feel bad for you. You’ll get through this; overcome and adapt. COVID is an eye opener to a lot of people; but unemployment is just stupid high and needs a way to be fixed.
Salt series , and frunkey green scales - I know a certain brain surgeon that would probably dig this knife at the beach or for wet applications (that sounded bad ... for wet tasks ... ok that sounds bad too ... you get what I mean). I like this and haven’t seen it yet. I thought they only came in yellow. Very cool. Good for the beach, picnics, cutting up my sons foods (he is losing teeth and needs fruits cut) and I appreciate this knife - not as much as I appreciate you and That brain surgeon. Shoutout to Frunkey and Nick. Appreciation month - I appreciate you guys and your honesty and good character. Social distance pounding it from wine country Ca 👊🏼🙏🏼
I've noticed on several (including this) disassembles that a large part of the process takes place below the camera. I rely upon you, in many cases, for these disassembly techniques. Off camera activities are not helpful. Thanks.
I’m an undergraduate biologist and field researcher and i do most of my work in streams and creeks, so you can see why this knife would appeal to me. That green color that kinda hurts your eyes ends up being a good thing in case it gets dropped, light weight design is fantastic. It all comes down to price, and how high the spyder tax will be. At the end of the day, for me personally, this has to outcompete the Caribbean in price by a meaningful amount to make it worth a purchase.
I work for NYS Parks doing health and safety work, specifically water safety. I’ve loved my Native 5 Salt as a lightweight cutting tool whenever I’m in and around the water. It’s a little hard to find, but I’d highly recommend it. Especially after adding a blue titanium aftermarket clip it looks ugly as heck in the best way possible. It’s also served well as a dedicated backpacking blade.
I did forget to mention that I managed to drop it while setting boating buoys and the yellow really helped make it “pop” out 20ft down when I dove down to retrieve it.
hmm its only 30 dollars more and not knowing any knife nerds in a similar vain of work I'm going take your word for it. more research it is. the hit in blade length is a downside but i love the look of the finger choil (i think i spelled that right) on the native.
@@mitchelloughman8382 I suppose it just depends on what your use is going to be. Personally, there haven't been any instances where I wished I had my PM2 or Endura over the Native 5. Also depends on whether you'll be in municipalities with knife laws that don't allow +3" blades. For what it's worth, I prefer the ergonomics of the Native over the Endura. For cordage, boxes, etc. it's been plenty comfortable.
I can put my Tasman Salt scales together without even messing with the spring then drop it right down into that slot before putting the blade and lock in.
Spyderco, please please make this in delica size. I love the salt 2 but lc200 is much better than h1. A para3 lightweight in lc200 would be great too. Thanks Nick!
Once th PM 2&3 are readily available in LC200N then I would reluctantly agree that it is the best EDC knife. A usable blade shape, virtually immune to corrosion, and a metric fuckton of aftermarket parts to fix it's 2 primary flaws (the scales and clip). The salt series making the necessary leap from the butter soft H1 to LC200N is the camel's nose in the tent. It was Sal Glesser himself who said knife steel has three attributes. Hardness, Toughnes, and Corrosion resistance, pick two. LC200N gives you near perfect corrosion resistance, great toughness, and good hardness. I say it is the be all, end all of EDC steels- fight me.
If they can make what is effectively an Endura out of LC200N and sell it for just ten bucks more than the VG-10, then basically none of their knives shouldn’t be available in it. They can still do S110V and Maxamet and BD1N or whatever but LC200N seems to be affordable and essentially perfect.
“Rust proofatude” is a new Shabazzism isn’t it? 😄 I really enjoy your disassembly videos, @Nick Shabazz seeing how a knife disassembles & reassembles & how it’s put together inside is very informative.
Well I'll tell ya folks, it's a good thing this knife is resistant to salt and tears... cause I've seen a fair amount of both going around over the handle color. (Rimshot) Seriously tho, love/hate the color, at least it's something different for this class of knife. Kinda nice seeing "zombie green" on a knife worth a damn for once.
Spyderco's "skeletonized" FRN drives me nuts, especially for a salt knife. Tons of crevices for muck and sand to collect. Also wish they put PB washers in their FRN linerless. The action just isn't the same.
The one Salt Spyderco NS did not disassemble does not have a 3d "skeletonized" handle. Atlantic salt is flat, mandated by the one piece casting. And washers work best between hard materials. You want to maximize surface area of contact with one soft and one hard material.
What is the main difference between Spydercos normal line and light weight line? Does one have liners and the others don’t? Also I emailed Benchmade a few weeks ago about buying a deep carry clip and I’m still waiting on them getting back to me. Is this normal? Edit: any ideas where I could get custom metal scales? And taller thumb studs for a 940?
Anytime Spyderco references the words "light weight" they just mean FRN scales. For the most part they are actually a lot lighter, but some have liners and some don't. Just depends on the model
@@hammerpants11c54 right, I was looking for after market parts and some said they could only fit lightweight models like the delica for example. And I have no idea the difference between the two. I know the Paras LW have no liners.
@@FYLbingbong hey. I get it. Whatever works for you. That’s why the high end knife world is great. lots of choices. Pretty much everything I own is black, blue, or natural titanium. Pretty boring actually.
