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Comment by Brad T. on June 11, 2013 at 18:02

Especially so since Spyderco likes doing Full Flat grind blades.  I have done this mod by request from a friend, but I did it to a Benchmade Triage and Bone collector, neither of those knives have a Full flat grind. 

Comment by Stanley May on June 11, 2013 at 6:00

Charles, I believe Spyderco/Emerson (collab.) cut out this material to make a bottle opener.  But in the process, they have severely compromised the blade strength.  Normally there is just a hole there to facilitate opening the blade with your thumb, but someone or some people decided to cut the upper part of the "loop" away to make a bottle opener.  As a result, you can just imagine just looking at it, putting more and more load on the blade would cause the blade to fail at a much lower load than if the "loop" were in place.  Plus when you operate the knife normally, the blade would deflect much more easily with the cutout made.  I believe the material removal was a "shoot yourself in the foot" design blunder.  A lot of the blade's structural ability has been compromised by the material removal for the sake of the bottle opening feature.  Not a decision I would have made.

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on June 11, 2013 at 0:32

Is there any purpose for the cutout other than just looks?