Top 10 production knives of 2009 – Spyderco Swick

Posted: January 8th, 2010 | Author: Thomas | Filed under: Tactical steel & outdoors magic | 1 Comment »

 

My second favourite production knife of 2009 is the Spyderco Swick (Model: FB14P), I used to hate the idea of neck knives and used to think of them as a gimmick.

Then I bought a LaGriffe and everything changed!

I will eventually write a post on the Fred Perrin LaGriffe but this current article is about the Swick, The Swick is based on the LaGriffe but features a really sexy warncliff blade & a really useful pistol/slanted kinda  grip which makes it really intuitive for tactical uses such as a back up knife in a combative enviroment.

The Swick was released for an extremely low price point (40$) and did not come with a sheath which really helped keep the cost down- I view this as a positive since the Swick really deserves a friction fit custom kydex sheath to bring out its full potential!

 

Basic stats

• Blade length: 2 1/8″ (54 mm)
• Overall length: 5 9/16″ (141 mm)
• Blade steel: CPM-S30V
• Weight: 1.4 oz (40g)

 

The true brilliance of this design comes through when utilized in a utility role, its light so you can carry it everywhere without any discomfort, its made of a stainless steel so contact against your skin should not corrode it and the unique way of holding which guarantees a safe grip makes it very easy to cut something while conserving your dexterity (think of unpacking boxes or even in a combat situation like grappling!).

I think of this neck knife as pretty much the perfect backup and everyday light utility, I would prefer to have it made of H1 since the close contact with your skin would really suit H1 far more than S30V and even though I love plain edge knives normally I feel that in the Swick’s role I would pick (if I had the choice) a fully serrated spyder edge in H1.

So that’s knife number 2! Tomorrow I will write about knife number 3 and amazingly enough its not a Spydie!

 

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