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Omniseed
1972
May 13, 2018
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I want you guys to get Marcin Slysz on board for a production run of his swayback flipper
May 13, 2018
fhood
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May 16, 2018
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OmniseedSeconded for a Slysz collab. His spyderco stuff is so damn cool.
May 16, 2018
Omniseed
1972
May 16, 2018
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fhoodI think his swayback is actually a Spyderco prototype, which might crap in our cereal/WE+MD+Slysz pipe dream.
There's also Enrique Pena's swayback flipper that is quite similar but without the hole and more complicated handle construction, that would also be a production grail knife for me.
May 16, 2018
fhood
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May 16, 2018
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OmniseedHaha, yup, having just googled it I have to admit that there are some elements of that design that are a tad...........proprietary.
May 16, 2018
Omniseed
1972
May 16, 2018
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fhoodHere's some shots of them!
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You can see that the Slysz is more like a prototype for a production knife from everyone's favorite upscale utilitarian knife company with a wonderful Taichung shop, while the Pena (I cannot type his name correctly and it's awful) is a little bit more, I guess neutral, it's clearly Pena's work, but he makes customs and most of us haven't had an opportunity to get familiar with his designs. His swayback flipper seems more universal and more like a typical contemporary framelock compared to the Slysz which feels more like a true framelock counterpart to a traditional-style single-blade swayback slipjoint.
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I also really like the way his swayback is available with more than one build option, it creates an enormous amount of opportunity when it comes to the kind of high-end production collaboration that Massdrop and WE/Reate/Millitt have been killing to death.
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Killing my beer and dinner budget anyway.
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Also I hope that the collaboration of these beauties uses an internal lockbar cutout instead of an external one. I just don't like external ones, while I always feel appreciative of an internal cutout when I check out a design.
May 16, 2018
DickHammer
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May 17, 2018
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OmniseedAnything Slysz turns out is gold. Please make his happen
May 17, 2018
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