Spyderco Endura Lightweight Emerson Opener Folding Pocket Knife with 3.8" VG-10 Steel Blade and FRN Handle - EDC Knife for Men and Women, Perfect for Hunting, Tactical, Camping - PlainEdge - C10PGYW

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.

I've been collecting knives for over a year now while at the same time searching for the perfect EDC blade. I've tried out various Kershaw and Cold Steel knives. All were fine blades but each one was deficient in one way or the other (too heavy, cannot be drawn and opened fast enough, pocket clip too tight and tore up my pants, etc). Finally, I came across the Spyderco Endura. Now, I'm quite aware of the Endura's reputation within the knife community. After watching a number of video reviews, I decided to add this knife to my collection. I've have carried this knife for 3 months now and I can say that this knife has exceeded expectations. The design and specs of this knife is PERFECT! This is not praise I give lightly. The 3.8 inch blade gives excellent reach and allows it tackle pretty much any everyday utility task and in my tests, has superb cutting power. Its overall weight is 3.6 ounces which means it can be carried in the pocket without it becoming a noticeable burden. The blade steel is high quality VG-10. The handle is a sleek professional design and the pocket clip allows it to be carried securely while allowing for it to be drawn quickly when needed. The famous Spyderco hole comfortably fits into your thumb and allows for you to quickly flick the blade open. The best part of this knife is the Emerson Wave feature which is essentially a hook curved out at the top of the knife's blade that can be caught on the back of your pocket when drawing it out. With practice, the knife is opened as soon as you take it out your pocket! Because of this awesome feature, the Spyderco Endura Wave can serve well as a emergency self-defense knife where precious seconds mean everything though I hope I'll be never forced to use the knife in that type of situation. In sum, the Spyderco Endura Wave has fulfilled everything I wanted in a pocket knife. It is the perfect combination of an everyday utility blade combined with the features of a tactical self-defense knife. The Endura Wave will continue to be my EDC blade for the near future if not permanently.

Excellent high quality American made knife at an extremely affordable price. Razor sharp right out of the box, passed the paper slicing test with flying colors. The blade itself is VG-10 steel sourced from Seki City in Japan which is infamous for its rich history of quality katana and sword making. VG-10 has excellent corrosion resistance and also rivals the hardness of carbon steel. Although several people on here indicate that this is not an optimal EDC knife I would disagree. I own several other Spyderco, Benchmade and Kershaw blades and this is now my go to for every day carry. A minor note regarding this knife though. I have seen several other reviews with conflicting accounts regarding the color of the handle. I can confirm as several other reviewers have indicated that it is not a black handle but rather a fiberglass blue/gray handle. It does have a dark appearance at first glance which may even appear somewhat black but upon further inspection in sunlight you will see that it more closely resembles a dark blue. The official Spyderco website has the handle listed as being Blue/Gray so disregard the reviews on here that question the authenticity of this knife due to its handle color. It is the official Spyderco Endura 4 Wave and is being sold through Amazon directly by the manufacturer. The packaging, Emerson patent stamp, etc... is exactly the same as every other official Spyderco knife I have ever purchased. If you are looking for an affordable and long lasting knife capable of handling the majority of day to day cutting tasks then search no further. I have a feeling this knife will be in my collection for many years to come!

This knife has far exceeded my expectations in a pocket knife. I have had at least 1 EDC knife in my pocket for the last 20 years. I would go through three or more per year due to loss from falling from my pocket, excessive wear from low quality steel or just plain bad performance that led to the junk pile. However, This knife is nothing like the others. The clip has held secure for over a year of daily carry and has never accidentally slipped out of my pocket. The knife just recently had to be resharpened after cutting through piles of cardboard on a concrete backing. Not the best way to use a knife but the knife held up and instead of chipping, the edge only blunted. The VG-10 Steel is one of the toughest steels I have ever worked with and the reason why it has been so wear resistant. I typically strop it on a leather paddle with some green stropping compound applied to the leather a few times a week. Although that makes for a really durable knife, it makes it much more time consuming to sharpen. I spent about 26 hours bringing the blade back to sharp ,from re profiling to mirror polish, on my Lansky because I didn't think my freehand skills were up to the task of putting a 15 degree bevel on my knife with my DMT diamond bench stones. This knife really holds up well to abuse. Considering I use it daily from small chores like opening letters, to bigger tasks in the yard, like trimming small limbs and anything else that needs to be severed. The Wave/Emerson style opener allows for amazingly fast, one handed opening. And when the knife needs a cleaning, i toss it in the dishwasher. The handle and blade itself look the same as the day it was delivered except for a few minor scratch patterns on the blade from use and recent sharpening. I am now thinking of purchasing this knife or the Delica for my wife.

Thin, lightweight, excellent build quality, great materials, great ergonomics ... price is OKAY ... so what's wrong with it? The patented Emerson "wave" opening feature is the problem. This was the very reason I got this specific knife in the first place, thinking it would work better than my Cold Steel AK47. NOPE! Sure, it carries easier than the AK47, which is heavier and bigger overall and has a Tri-Ad lockback mechanism that's harder to disengage. But this thing doesn't always want to deploy. It's not that the Emerson hook doesn't catch the edge of my pocket reliably and "wave" the thing open. Rather, it's that hook that snags inside of the lining of my pocket and prevents me from even pulling the thing upward AT ALL. Seriously, if this thing scoots itself backward in my pocket far enough, it literally LOCKS itself into position unless I somehow manage to wiggle the thing forward enough to clear the pocket lining, and THEN I can pull it upward and it "waves" open easily. The AK47, however, doesn't hang up on anything, and while it takes a more deliberate angle to snag it upon my pocket, it still "waves" open reliably ... it's just a pain to disengage that Tri-Ad lock, whereas the Endura 4's lockback mechanism is like butter. More on that lockback mechanism: on some other knives, once you disengage the lockback, you have to either push on the back of the blade or sort of shake it down a bit to get it to clear the mechanism, and then get your fingers out of the way, and then push the blade closed the rest of the way. With this, as with most lockback Spyderco knives, once you disengage the lockback, the blade goes LIMP, it just kinda dangles there loosely without any spring tension, and there's a nice safe flat spot at the back of the blade edge that allows you to catch it with your fingertip without cutting yourself, so you can then get your fingers out of the way and close it easily. This makes closing it safely with one hand VERY easy. It also doesn't have an absurd amount of spring tension to overcome, so it's VERY easy to either flick open or just roll open smoothly via the thumb hole, and you don't have to push in at a really specific angle or with a ton of force to make the lock disengage. One more thing: there's a nifty notch cut out of the lockback tab, so you can't accidentally disengage the lock while you're gripping the knife. You have to DELIBERATELY push it in to disengage the lock - not with a bunch of force, but with an intentional effort, not something you can do by accident. Very nice. If there was some way they could tone down the Emerson cut-out in their design so that it wouldn't grab the inside lining of my pockets in my jeans or shots and seize up in place, then this thing would be downright PERFECT as an EDC knife. Seriously, no exaggeration. Oh, and okay, I also wish that it was available in black. But still, it's not bad. I just feel that I probably would've been smarter to have bought a Byrd Cara Cara 2 (essentially the same knife, minus the Emerson hook, and with a slightly different thumb hole) and just done the ghetto zip-tie "wave" mod with that instead. Oh well ... if nothing else, this will look nice on my fireplace mantle on my display rack.

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 stars Quality 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.

I loved my Spyderco Delica 3" Emerson Wave so much that I just had to also buy the big brother, the Endura 4" Emerson Wave. This is an incredible product at an incredible price. The Endura 4 on Amazon (including shipping) cost me LESS than my Delica 3 bought locally. The VG-10 blade material is so hard, I think it's the perfect metal for all duty cutting. The simple leaf shaped blade is great for general purpose and self defense. The bronze / naval brass washers in the knife pivot are higher end. The Emerson Wave feature makes these particular Spyderco knives very unique. They flip open so quickly, they impress everyone every time I "whip it out". The hand grip is very ergonomically shaped like a pistol grip, and has a thumb rest with jimping incorporated into the David Boyle dent area. This is a very simple, elegant and modern engineering design. I've got two of these bad boys for all occasions now, in 2 sizes for any occasion or application. I don't even want to carry any other style pocket knife anymore. It is that good. CONS: Take precautions not to lose the head of the Torx screw head at the hinge. It eventually works itself loose over time as with any fastener on moving parts. When you get your Spyderco, put blue Loktite on the threads to prevent loss. There are more expensive blades, however they are NOT as good as the humble, affordable Spyderco Endura/Delica Emerson Wave design. And if you're going to own a Spyderco folder, it only makes sense to own it with the Wave feature for lightning quick one hand operation (or slow operation should you decide not to drag the Wave's hook against your pants pocket).

I had a $30 knife for 9 years. Carried it every day. One day, my wife asked to use it. I handed it to her and never saw it again. Since I kept it for 9 years without losing it I decided to purchase a knife at a higher price point. I am glad I did. This knife is nice. Its light. It operates smooth, and has no perceivable play. Razor sharp. Think hard about if you want the Emerson Opener or not. I love it, but can see how it would drive some people crazy. Think of it like this; if you pull it out of you pocket quickly, the knife is opening. It is a large knife, but not massive. I'm 5'11" 180lbs. It is good size for me, but if I were a smaller build, I would probably get a smaller model. If you are on the fence, just get it. You will be happy that you did.

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