any BM Axis lock knives with tip down carry?

[flip]

Are there any models of Benchmade knives that have the Axis lock and the clip positioned for tip down carry? I have handled a few Benchmades that friends have and I love the smoothness of the Axis lock. I am just not comfortable with a tip up carry knife.

 

[underaged!]

Only the 805 and 806, I think. There maybe some discontinued models I may be unaware of.

 

[flip]

Thanks. On knives, I'm ignorant but I am trying to remedy that.

 

[orthogonal1]

I think underaged may be right. I looked at pbase.com/haveblue/root, a collection of Benchmades, and believe only the 805 and 806 are configurable for tip down.

I have tried this on mine, and found it ackward.

I wasn't comfortable with tip up myself, but I've adjusted.

I did drop the knives onto a carpeted floor a few times to test if they opened, though.The axis knives seem well biased to stay closed, unlike most liner locks I've examined.

 

[Nick Hyle]

The (some?) Aluminum Model 720 (not the G-10 variants) is switchable, although due to the pivot I think it's three way instead of four - right hand tip up or down, left hand tip up only. And early models had no left hand option at all to mount the clip.

 

[SIFU1A]

really the way the axis holds the closed blade shut i would say the odds of it opening in your pocket are pretty low (low to non-existant), certainly lower than most any liner lock ya care to mention imho, the axis holds it shut pretty well.

i very much prefer tip up vs down myself, but to each there own.

really the 2 knives i have had that were bad about opening in your pocket were both tip down FWIW ,other than my spyderco ATR which had a bad detent, anyway. spyderco gunting and joht singh kalsa were the culprits, due to the horn catching on stuff going into/out of the pocket.

 

[blade_guy]

I have a BM 720S that I switched the clips from tip up to tip down.