Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA

I was a fan of benchmade and own quite a few of them. They have done a few things of late that I disagree with and I will leave it at that.

They make a fine knife tho.

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This one was like 250-300? I dont think they make this one anymore.
It has their auto assist and its basicly a CA legal switchblade.

The Griptillian that Sublime posted is basicaly the Honda Civic of EDC pocket knife.

Well thats not true. Benchmade is considered "high end" by a lot of folks.

Looking at that pic reminds me.

Their customer service is a joke. I broke that knife. Well the assist function failed after a few years and I sent it and a few other benchmades in for cleaning, sharping and repairs.

They straight up lost one knife and I had to fight them on that for ever and this knife I requested they not change out the side plate as it is special to me. Well they were able to keep the side plate but they put the dang pocket clip on for right hand carry and I can not get it back off. Now I gotta send it back AGAIN!!!

Benchmade is dead to me. My sent his and mine auto blades in under their forever sharp program. I was busy didn't really think about it and my kid wanted to me the favor. My 20 year old Tanto that I carried daily at work (I carried two auto blades) came back ruined and looked more like a drop point. They declined to replace the blade.

I subsequently threw it a drawer and bought two new Pro Techs and never looked back. They orient the pocket more to my liking too.