Spyderco

Spyderco is an American company that manufactures knives and vehicles for them. Founded in 1978 by Sal Glesser.

Among the company's products, the most [source not specified 2441 days] are folding knives, for the convenience of opening with one hand, a round hole is made in the blade. The company filed an American patent for a round hole in the blade, and later achieved recognition of it as a trademark of the company [1] (the so-called "Spyderhole").

The first knife with a carrying clip.

The first knife with a serrated edge.

The first blade knife that is made of powdered steel.

The first Spyderco-branded knife, the C01 Worker, was released in 1981[2].

Currently, the catalog of manufactured models includes more than 180 items, including folding knives, fixed blade knives and kitchen knives.

Production of Spyderco products was located exclusively in the USA and Japan, but in 2008 the first Spyderco-branded knife made in China was released.

Spyderco owns the Byrd brand of knives manufactured in Southeast Asia. Byrd folding knives with a one-handed opening feature a comet-shaped opening

Spyderco knives are often seen in famous movies. So, the Police model is seen in such tapes as "Training Day", "Fight Club", "Necessary Things", "Brightness", "Parker", "3000 Miles to Graceland", "Client", "Sabotage", "Compadre and Hard Target. The Spyderco Endura appears in The Rock Climber with Sylvester Stallone, Daylight, and the first part of The Fast and the Furious. And the most famous video sequence associated with the company's products is the Spyderco Harpy in the hands of Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal 2001. In the original (novel by Thomas Harris), instead of the Harpy, there is a larger knife of a similar design to the Spyderco Civilian, which can be seen in the film "Bad Boys"