Spyderco Endura 4 Lightweight Signature Knife with 3.80" VG-10 Steel Blade and FRN Handle - CombinationEdge - C10PSBK

I've only had this knife for 48 hours so this is mostly an initial impression.Product Description: The blade is about 3-1/2 inches long and the handle is nearly five inches long. When opened, the knife is about 8-1/2 inches. It fits my short, wide hands quite well. It's a fairly big knife but has a rather slender profile so it fits into a front jeans pocket fairly well and Spyderco did a great job of keeping the weight down by skeletonizing the liners and using a high quality plastic (they call it fiberglass reinforced nylon) handles. The pocket clip is secured to the knife with three small torx head screws and is reversible to either end or either side. That doesn't make sense for a knife designed for tip up carry only, but they use the same handles on Endura knives without the wave feature so it saves them another part to inventory. The lock is very positive and audibly clicks when engaged.Sale/delivery rating: I ordered this knife via Amazon Prime. It arrived the following day. You simply can't beat service like that so Amazon earns five out of five stars.Quality of Product: The knife is made at Spyderco's Seki City, Japan factory and arrived sharp, well constructed and ready for use by a right hander. Spyderco has a reputation of providing high quality products for reasonable prices. I feel they easily met these standards with this product. Five starsQuality of design: It's too early to tell. There is a learning curve with this knife. Utilizing the Emerson Wave Feature is not simply a matter of pulling the knife from your pocket with the blade swinging free and locking into place. It requires an outward twisting of the wrist and a bit of wrist snap to get the blade to open completely and lock. I've complicated the matter by switching the clip to the opposite side and trying to use the knife left handed. I'm a rightie but I believe in keeping my options open and my right hand free. That is only going to add to the time required to gain proficiency with this knife. I am confident the design is sound but I believe the time required to master the use of this knife is going to be much longer than I had initially hoped. I did purchase a training version  Spyderco Blade/Opener Folder Knife With Red FRN Handle Md: C10TRW but it has not arrived yet. Four stars - only because the use of the Wave feature is not as intuitive as Spyderco would have you believe.Manufacturer support. Go to the spyderco website and you'll find every replacement part available for this knife but the blade itself. That is very important to me.Overall: 4.75 stars.

This is the best knife I've ever owned. I gained an interest in knives about 2 years ago, but didn't know enough about them to make a good purchase. I first bought a cheaper assisted opening knife, and liked it a lot, but the spring broke on me. I was then gifted a microtech switchblade clone, which I thought was cool but found out that it was very cheap. Over the time period of me owning these knives I would explore forums and watch videos (particularly a youtube channel named nutnfancy, check it out, here is his video on this knife:[...] and I gained a lot of knowledge on good knives.My criteria for this knife purchase were then as followed (ranked in order of importance):1) Folding knife, 3-4" from a name brand manufacturer. Folding because I would carry it with me everywhere, and these are typically lighter too. 3-4" because longer knives are increasingly awkward to work with on most tasks, and shorter knives just look small (I want to like my knife!). A name brand knife would hopefully mean a tight lockup (no or veryyyy little blade play), good quality build, decent customer service, and a name knife people can recognize (because its nice having a knife people think is cool).2) Good steel. Name brand manufacturers offer knives in bad steel for cheaper blades, and I didn't want that. I wanted a decent/good steel. I didn't want to break the bank, but I wanted to have a blade made out of something worth making a blade out of. (sharpening difficulty, edge retention, rust resistance, ect)3) Blade shape. I wanted something shaped like a drop or spear point. These were the knives I found easiest to use. I would prefer a knife without serrations. Small amounts of serration at the base would be acceptable, but perhaps not ideal.4) Opening speed/ease. I wanted a knife that was fast to open, because the faster it is, the more convenient it is. If I could get a knife that would be better at self defense WITHOUT sacrificing utility, I would opt for that knife. Self defense wasn't my primary purpose for purchasing but anyone who says they don't carry a knife for self defense is either dumb or lying, because when it comes down to it, if you need to use that knife to save your life, you will, no questions asked. That is called self defense. Again, any knives with gains in self defense WITHOUT sacrificing in the previous areas would be preferable over alternatives to me.With all those criteria in mind, this is the perfect knife for me. It fits all of the criteria perfectly. Folding, 3.8" blade, Spyderco, very nice lockup, good quality, good customer service (from what I hear, haven't needed it yet), VG-10 steel is a great steel, blade shape is what I wanted, no serrations, and this is in the group of the fastest opening knives on the market because of the wave feature (although I will mention that spyderco's wave is larger than any other manufacturer, and this does make for easier, more reliable opening, so one could argue that this is the fastest). That is why I bought the knife.Upon using and working with the knife, my expectations have been met. I love this knife. I don't have a single complaint.----- 2 Month Update -----I still love the knife, man this thing is awesome, and the wave feature is so nice. Initially I looked at it as just a tactical improvement, but its actually shown to be a utility improvement too. Opening this knife with gloves on is a breeze, and if something needs to be cut, no one needs to wait around while you fumble with your knife. You can hold what youre cutting in one hand and veryyy easily cut it without any thought, in any conditions.I have learned how to operate the knife completely with one hand, which is something I did not think could be done (closing a lock back one handed?). You can actually put your finger in a place under the blade, and hinge the locking mechanism. If you know where to put your finger, the blade will fall and the flat part by the base with bump into you, letting you reach around and close it.As Im typing this, I did a blade play check. The blade still locks up as tight as the day I bought it, and it should. Its only been two months.Another thing I've learned that I like is that you can easily open this knofe quietly. This is true with any lock back, but this is my first real venture into the lock back scene. I will say that while this is still my ideal knife, I do not like lock back knives. The wave on this knife counters it, but on any other I would not be interested.I dont use the knife an excessive amount, and I havent needed to sharpen it yet. Thats pretty nice.I do really like the handles. As some others have mentioned, they might feel cheap because they are slightly flexible and polymer based. However, the knife has a skeletonized liner and its not going to ever break. I prefer the reinforced nylon, it gives better grip in my opinion. Spyderco wins for putting amazing gimping on their blades, and extra texture on the back of the handle where the blade gimping is. It reallyyyy improves how well you can hold on to the knife.I think thats just about all the observations I've made on the knife while owning it. It's still my ultimate knife, if anything I love it more now then when I first wrote this review. I've kinda fallen in love with the blade shape too, from an asthetic point. The long, thinner (edge to spine, its thicker from side to side than the normal endura I hear) blade just looks so elegant. I thought itd be something I just lived with, but I really like how it looks.Great knife. Worth my money.----- 2 Year Update -----Ok, so, it hasn't exactlyyyy been two years, but it's close enough (1 year 9 months?) and I really just want to echo my previous statements. This knife is still my edc. I love it. I love everything about it."If you could go back, would you get a different knife?" ... Possibly. But I know exactly which one it is. It would be this knife's smaller sister, the delica w/ wave opener. That's the only knife I could possibly foresee kicking this out of my go-to position. Are there other knives I am interested in? Yes. Lately I've been eyeing up MCUSTA's Tactility with the cocobano handles. But even if I got it, nothing would ever remove this knife from my collection or from my rotation. It is edc perfection.----- 3 Year Update -----Still loving it. I now own knives that are 2, even 3 times the price of this guy. This is not to say that I do not love those knives, they are very nice, however this spydie endura with the wave opener is still my go-to. I still hold that the delica might be a better size (see 2 year update), however I'm super happy with my endura and would never get rid of it.

Una gran navaja, se nota mucho la calidad. Es grande pero se abre fácil con una mano. El mango frn personalmente me gusta mucho, hace que el agarre sea fuerte. Tengan mucho cuidado que viene con un filo que asusta!

Schon das zweite Produkt von spyderco, Achtung, bei diesem handelt es sich zwar um ein Original allerdings wird es Lizengefertigt (im Japan) nur die teureren werden in den USA hergestellt. Das Messer ist scharf, lässt sich problemlos öffnen und schließen, lediglich der Klipp könnte etwas fester sein, das Messer rutscht aus der Hose, wenn man diese verkehrt auf einen Stuhl hängt (bei den hochwertigeren sind andere verbaut, da tritt dieses Problem nicht auf), trotzdem absolute Kaufpempfehlung für den Preis

Es una excelente navaja, viene con un filo que rasura, el mango es bastante amplio y permite un grip muy cómodo. La que me llegó venía con un juego muy leve en la hoja, pero ajustando un poco el tornillo queda perfectamente estable.Cabe mencionar que no es una imitación.El envío fue muy bueno, llegó al día siguiente de mi compra.

Ausgezeichnet zum Schneiden. Durch die teilweise Sägeverzahnung packt das Messer excellent zu. Muss sehr viele Kartons und Taue schneiden. Dafür und für vieles andere ist das Werkzeug top. Spyderco eben.

Producto original Spyderco. Se entrega en interior de caja almohadillada, junto a sus documentos de garantía. Este modelo; Endura-4 trae una hoja de acero inoxidable VG10 con filo perlado. Presenta bloqueo (line-block) mediante lamina y pulsador en el mango, lo que facilita trabajos de mayor presión en el corte. Sorprende su tamaño, resultando grande, mayor que la apariencia que presenta en las imágenes de compra, algo a tener en cuenta si buscas una EDC su tamaño no podria ser comodo para portarla en bolsillo. La solidez de esta herramienta y lo robusto de su ensablaje es impresionante, Spyderco es calidad, y sin duda pagas lo que obtienes. Una compra recomendable si buscas una herramienta para el monte, o trabajos de corte exigentes, no de porte en bolsillo para diario. Con su calidad si la cuidas, tendras una herramienta de por vida. Recomendable.