Chaparral is a shrub native to the Western United States with the unique ability to perennially survive, revive and regenerate after being destroyed by drought or fire. Like a season it returns year after year. It's also what Spyderco calls a new and continuing series of gentlemen's folders.
Mid-sized Chaparral folders will have identical blade and handle profiles but showcase variant handle materials. Handle options will be chosen for their elegant appearance and functional utility with a focus directed at making the Chaparral series unique as well as a serious contender in the gent's knife genre. Possibly Spyderco's thinnest, lightest mid-sized CLIPIT? yet, the debut Chaparral has a carbon fiber/G-10 laminate handle with a mid-positioned back lock and screw-together construction.
Attached to the ultra-slim handle, a left-right, tip-up clip arranges the knife deeply inside a pocket. Carpenter Technology Co. produces the CTS XHP powdered steel used for the leaf-shaped blade. The blade is ground full-flat and offered PlainEdged for the best available cutting performance with non-skid jimping located at both the spine and choil.
Specifications:
- Overall Length: 6.375" (162mm)
- Blade Length: 2.812" (71mm)
- Steel: CTS XHP
- Closed Length: 3.625" (92mm)
- Edge Length: 2.281" (58mm)
- Weight: 2.5oz (70g)
- Blade Thickness: .078" (2mm)
- Handle: Carbon Fiber/G-10 Laminate
- Clip Position: Ambi
- Tip Carry Position: Tip-Up
- Lock Type: Back Lock
- Grind: Full-Flat
- Sheath: N/A
- Origin: Taiwan
