Man I tell you guys I'm towards the beginning of my collecting career, still at the point where I consider the Small Inkosi my grail knife.
I don't know much about the CRK locks, but literally everybody has said they are fabulous. I know I love the AXIS lock, If I could get a chopped version of that 781 similar to the Small vs large Inkosi I might have a new favorite knife. Great looking blade design, slightly better steel for my purposes and the F&F on my Benchmades has been great so far. I personally would have loved to see it in the M390 over the CPM-20CV as I would generally prefer a tougher balde when considering = HRCs. I'm also generally kinda plain jane and not into colors that aren't boring and more boring, but man I think that Titanium handle could look stunning in a Cobalt Blue handle with blue benchmade lettering on the blade.
Generally for my hands a 4 inch handle with something in the neighborhood of a 3"-3.5" blade is ideal for my hands/grip type. This knife goes over both of those by a combined half inch and while that might not seem like much it might as well be a mile in my hands. We'll see, I've got a ZF0450 coming which is right at 7.5" fully open. We'll see how it goes. If I ever do decide to get a knife as just a "show knife for some reason though, a color variant of this one may be it. The funny part is there really isn't much else I like in the 2017 catalog.
I will be really really interested to hear how people feel about the contouring of the titanium.
