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Spyderco Sprint Run & Exclusives
Spyderco Sprint Runs and exclusives are where the catalog gets interesting. Familiar models like the Native, Delica, Smock, and Paramilitary 2 come back in steels, handle materials, and finishes the standard line never offers. Spyderco sorts its limited knives into three types, Exclusives, Sprint Runs, and Flash Batches, and each reaches the market differently. For a new buyer, that means a chance to own a model you already trust in a premium steel. For collectors, it means the configurations people are still hunting years later. Everything on this page is limited, and most of it will not be made again in this exact form once it sells through. Browse the full Spyderco lineup for standard production models.
What Is a Spyderco Sprint Run?
A Sprint Run is a limited, one-time production of an existing Spyderco design in a new configuration, such as an upgraded steel, a different handle, or a special finish. Spyderco commissions them itself and sells them through dealers worldwide, and it will not duplicate that exact configuration again. A Flash Batch goes one step further: a brand-new design built once, serialized on the blade, and never repeated. The SpyNano, inspired by the lionSTEEL Nano and built in M398 with titanium and green Micarta scales, is one of them.
Spyderco Dealer Exclusives
Exclusives start with a dealer or distributor pitching a configuration to Spyderco, and the whole run goes to that one seller. Unlike Sprint Runs, an exclusive can be reordered. Our DLT exclusives include a black TiCN CruWear Dragonfly 2 and Delica 4 in OD green FRN built as a matched set, and a 1,000 piece Smock in CPM 20CV on green canvas Micarta. Distributor exclusives round it out, including the return of Jess Horn's long-discontinued C38 in CruWear on carbon fiber.
Sprint Run Steels: CPM 15V, S90V, and More
The brown CPM 15V wave covers the Native 5, Native Chief, Lil' Native, Paramilitary 2 Lightweight, Manix 2 Lightweight, and the Yojimbo family, a vanadium-heavy steel built for extreme wear resistance, with several of the G10 runs heat treated to a protocol from knifemaker Shawn Houston. S90V on carbon fiber runs across the Bodacious, Sage 6, Siren, and MicroJimbo. Alongside them are SPY27 in cobalt blue, REX 121 on the Smock, and a 50th Anniversary Native 5 in S90V with amber bone. Our comparison of every major knife steel covers what each one does best.
Upcoming DLT Exclusive Releases
We have new exclusive projects in the pipeline, and the best-loved configurations sell through fast. Check DLT Drops for release dates and sign up for email alerts to be first in line when the next one lands.