Forum Models
 
Over the last seven years, Spyderco has produced several "Limited Edition" for the aficionados who inhabit their online forums. 
 
The first of these was the Military, shown above,  created for the Spyderco Factory Forum in 2000. 
In addition to the "forum" engraving on the blade, it sports a mother-of-pearl "spyderbug"
inlaid into its handle
 

Next was the G10 Native shown above, made for the Spyderco Forum on BladeForums.  It was the first Native to be produced with a G10 handle and the only Forum knife available in both PE and CE.

 
In 2002, this burgundy FRN Vesuvius was produced for the factory forum.
 
2003, saw the release of both this BladeForums blue FRN Spyderhawk...
 
...and this blue FRN Native III engraved as the SPYDERCO.COM 2003 Forum knife.
 
Considering the poor sales of prior forum models, this DiAlex Adventura, engraved as the SPYDERCO.COM 2005 Forum Knife was a very pleasant surprise.
 
For 2006 we were once again surprised and delighted when the Lava, designed by my good friend and fellow forumite Chad Los Baņos, also know as "Daywalker", was selected as the year's Forum Knife