This is a NEW Numbered SPYDERCO
C132GP Chokwe Folding Knife,. It is Collectors Club knife numbered 107 of 200.
Knives as essential tools exist
in every culture on earth. Their shape and style are dictated by their people's
needs, be those agricultural, spiritual or self preserving. Certainly ethnic
styles of cutlery have been lost to history but many designs are still used
today and revered in their countries. Taking those individual designs and
adding a Spyderco touch is the core of Spyderco's Ethnic Series folders and
most recently the C132 Spyderco Chokwe.
Chokwe people live in the
Zambia/Democratic Republic of Congo region of Central Africa. Primarily
agricultural, they are gatherers, fishermen and hunters. Highly positioned in
Chokwe society are their blacksmiths who craft fixed-blade knives for daily use
in feeding, harvesting and protecting their communities. Spyderco’s Chokwe
folder is patterned off a historic fixed-blade, keeping true to the triangular
shaped blade and coffin-shaped handle. The blade is CPM S30V blade steel and
flat-ground for cutting performance. The handle is black G-10 with bored out
handle holes reducing overall weight and making through holes for attachment to
a longer handle or pole. Full length internal liner reinforces the locking
device, a Chris Reeve style integral lock. Metal hourglass clip carries the
knife tucked in a pocket tip-down right hand carry.
Nothing on the modern market is
like it. It may look modern and streamlined but the original design is hundreds
if not thousands of years old. Necessity generates function and in the knife
world that can happen in central Africa a few hundred years ago. It can also
happen in Golden, Colorado in 2009.
Spyderco donated approximately 5%
of sales of the Chokwe to the Keep a Child Alive Organization. Keep a Child
Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and
support services to children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the
developing world by directly engaging the global public in the fight against
AIDS. Built in 2009 the C132GP Chokwe has black G-10 handles.
This is a new in original box
Collector Club knife numbered 107 of 200, that has sat in a collection
untouched for over 15 years.
“The Spyderco
collectors club is an offer to collectors of Spyderco knives. The collectors
club gives you the possibility to receive all Spyderco knives made, with your
number on them. There is as of today only 200 available numbers.”
Overall length: 8.500”
Closed: 4.750”
Blade Length: 3.750"
Steel: CPM S30V
Weight: 3.7 oz.
Blade Edge: Plain Edge
Country of Origin: Taiwan
UPC: 716104008902
Item Code: 2016SP1089