Like A Rock
Spyderco’s Rocksalt H1 camp/survival companion gets put to the author’s test to prove it can hack seriously tough, wet and nasty backcountry!
In the March 2008 issue of Tactical Knives, the editor, Steven Dick, previewed the first fixed-blade design to come out of the collaboration between Spyderco and custom knife maker Ed Schempp, the Spyderco Rocksalt. I’ve now had the opportunity to really take the Rocksalt out into the field and see just what it is made of.
The Rocksalt was designed as an outdoors blade geared towards general camp chores and jungle survival. It is a midsized knife with an overall length of 10-1/2 inches, which includes the sharply raked handle that is fi tted with bi-directional textured FRN scales. The 6-3/4-inch recurved blade is 1/8-inch thick and has a strong Kukri influence to it. There are two lanyard holes on the knife, one in the common position at the butt of the knife, and another just forward of the grip at the location you’d expect to see a Spyderhole on a Spyderco folder. This forward hole is designed to accept a shorter lanyard to secure the knife while chopping. At 9.2 ounces, the Rocksalt is surprisingly light for its size. The high hollow grind and spine swedge help to keep weight down and the Rocksalt is skeletonized under the handle scales for further weight reduction and balance.
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