Spyderco Native 5 50th Anniversary Sprint Run Folding Knife

Commemorating five decades of knife making, the Spyderco Native 5 50th Anniversary Sprint Run Folding Knife is an elegant take on one of the brand's most popular models—"indisputably the most distinctive production knife we have ever created," the company says. The blade is crafted from vanadium-enriched CPM S90V stainless steel for wear and corrosion resistance and edge holding. The handle is amber-colored bone polished to a luster, with bolsters made of Damascus steel featuring the Spyderco bug logo. Nestled in stainless steel liners bearing decorative filework is the sturdy back lock. An hourglass pocket clip is set up for right-side, tip-up carry and a lanyard hole provides a means of securing this valuable tool. Finally, the Native 5 50th Anniversary comes in a handsome display box made of African Padauk hardwood.

The brightly polished blade is full-flat ground from CPM S90V, an advanced powder metallurgy stainless steel enriched with vanadium. CPM S90V's high vanadium content favors the formation of hard vanadium carbides instead of chromium carbides, increasing the steel's wear resistance and edge-holding properties while leaving additional free chromium available to enhance corrosion resistance.

Full stainless steel liners that are meticulously machined on their edges to create a decorative filework pattern reminiscent of the finest custom knives. In timeless style, the dovetailed handle scales are crafted from amber-colored bone and beautifully polished to a high luster. To fulfill the knife's identity as a Spyderco CLIPIT design, the handle includes a polished hourglass clip configured for right-side, tip-up carry.

The blade is mated to the knife's handle by a precision-machined back lock mechanism that is one of the defining characteristics of the Native 5's design.

Beginning with solid billets of 1084 and 15N20 tool steel, knife makers Ed and Martin Schemp's incredibly complex process involves steps including forging, grinding, water jet cutting, welding, stress relieving, forge welding, and drawing to finished bars. The Damascus bars are then precision cut to reveal a contrasting checkerboard pattern of 36 squares, each containing Spyderco's signature "bug" logo.

The box is custom-crafted from solid African Padauk, an exotic reddish-orange hardwood that naturally darkens with time to a deep brown. Laser engraved with Spyderco's 50th anniversary logo, this stunning box is the perfect display for this extraordinary and highly collectible tribute to Spyderco's history and the knifemaker's art.