A rare mick strider + I met Rob Bailey ( Bear Gryls knife maker yesterday!!)

[paulhardwick]

This is a pretty rare knife this side of the pond an unused S30V Mick Strider, I also met Rob Bailey who made the knives for Bear, before he became head scout of the world, he was nearly in tears when he retold the story of Bear taking his old knife back to him and he had a new one, Rob sold the old one quite cheaply THEN AN AMERICAN GUY, gets in touch with him saying he would have happily paid $40,000 for his old knife, that would make me cry!!! Anyway I’ve ordered one of his S4’s from him, I looked earlier on ebay.com and new Striders like this are going for $1,000 so it’s very rare and sellable

 

[Davyt63]

Very nice,looks robust to

 

[akacoach]

Which model is the Strider? I have always loved how bombproof the Striders are. Not a ‘friendly’ looking pattern to carry though.

I still have a couple left from the ones I have had over the years.
An old SMF.


And a quite unique Strider Slipjoint with nightmare grind (one of only 3 I am aware of).