Most knife companies celebrate a milestone anniversary with a logo etch and a price bump. Spyderco, which has spent half a century quietly running one of the more interesting catalogs in production knives, decided to do something else. For its 50th, the Golden, Colorado outfit rebuilt what Spyderco itself calls its iconic Native® 5 as a small-batch heirloom: CPM® S90V® blade, amber-colored bone scales, hand-forged mosaic Damascus bolsters by Ed Schempp and his son Martin, and a solid African Padauk display box. The price is $1,200. The model is C41BA50TH.
This isn’t a knife you carry to break down boxes. It’s a knife you buy because the Native 5 has been around long enough to mean something, and the people who care are willing to pay custom-shop money for it.
Price: $1,200…