More are on the way, though.I have the same question regarding how you lost your washer lmao. It simulates the weight and balance of the live blade, but allows for safe practice.Īt this time, finding a Yojimbo 2 for sale is like trying to hire the classic film’s elusive ronin warrior as your bodyguard. Stay Safe Media, another Janich project, sells a Yojimbo 2 trainer for $54.00. I found a pair for just over a hundred bucks (last year).
#Yojimbo 2 custom scales full
At SHOT, Ed Schempp told me that Spyderco’s new plant in Golden, CO is running full bore with an increase from one shift to three shifts to keep up with demand of their Made in USA knives. Production runs of the Yojimbo 2 have sold out at least twice. Much like “melting” the frame of a handgun for better concealed carry, the Yojimbo 2 has smoother edges and is more user-friendly. The Yo 2 is more forgiving in the hand and in the pocket. I sincerely like my original Yojimbo, but upon receiving two of the new Yojimbo 2’s, I immediately felt what Janich was trying to achieve with the redesign. I still think it is a good-looking folder.
Costs interfered and the original Yojimbo wore scales of an off-the-shelf blue that is just a bit bright. To increase its concealment, Janich envisioned the first version of the Yo to be dressed in denim-colored G-10 with a matching pocket clip. The newer knife has a four-position carry clip, as opposed to the right/left tip up one on the previous Yo. Because of its high strength, the compression lock is retained for the Yojimbo 2.
To shore up the Yo 2, integral steel liners now provide a framework inboard of the black G-10 slabs. This seems to have something to do with the spatial relationship between the Spyderhole and the pivot point. The Yo 2’s blade rotates open with a little less “English” by the thumb than a first run Yojimbo. The topline of the Yojimbo 2’s blade is a gentle, smooth scallop. The blade has been relieved of the puppy-teeth-like jimping on the top of the blade, which Janich told me only served to irritate your flesh when employing the knife in the thumb-forward Filipino grip. Yo 2’s Wharncliffe blade retains all the potential power of the original, but is slightly thicker at the tip because of the hollow grind. The Yojimbo 2’s blade, though still CPM S30V steel, is now hollow ground and not as angular as the original full flat ground triangle blade. Gone are the dimples in the sides of the scales that were placed for reference points when manipulating the knife. As such the overall length of the handle was shortened by half an inch.
He said in making the Yojimbo 2, he no longer felt the need for the butt of the knife to be used for striking or manipulating pressure points. I spoke with Janich at SHOT Show about the morphing of the Yo 2. Janich takes his experiences with the original Spyderco Yojimbo and with his Blackhawk! design, the Be-Wharned, and uses them to pare down the Yojimbo 2 into a more refined knife. Martial Blade Concepts founder Michael Janich worked the original Yojimbo’s proportions into what he considered a superior defensive knife. Spyderco’s current Yojimbo 2 is an improved version of the original Yojimbo, which debuted in 2005. Yojimbo, or “bodyguard,” is a fitting name for Spyderco’s Michael Janich-designed defensive folding knife. Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese period film in which two feuding crime bosses attempt to hire a wandering samurai ( ronin) who has arrived in their town.
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