Are people moving away from G10?

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I seem to notice that Benchmade is moving away from G10. They used to have a lot of G10 models and slowly they keep going away.

Is this only something that is happening with Benchmade or are other manufacturers doing this too?

I love G10 more than any other handle material.

I'd hate to see G10 get sparse. Is G10 just not as great as we all think?
 
Hell no, I love g-10 it's the only handle material the should be on any handle. Bm should look back at their original Dark Star which I found to be the grippiest.
 
I hate G-10 and love it when BM offers a knife with Ti or CF instead. G-10 just does not agree with my skin.
 
No, not even BM is moving away from it. AFAIK, just about all the HK knives they produce have G10 handles. I don't think there's a replacement for G10 yet. Carbon fiber is closest, and it's more costly.
 
Truthfully, I used to think that G-10 was probably the best handle material, but I no longer feel that way.

In a knife with metal liners, I would rather have a fairly thick slab of FRN than G-10.
I think that FRN can withstand hard impacts better than G-10 can.

Here's a link to some unusual "testing" that some crazy guy did:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=352994


Allen.
 
allenC said:
Truthfully, I used to think that G-10 was probably the best handle material, but I no longer feel that way.

In a knife with metal liners, I would rather have a fairly thick slab of FRN than G-10.
I think that FRN can withstand hard impacts better than G-10 can.

Allen.
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I have to agree with you there. I bet G10 is brittle enough to chip or crack if dropped from quite a distance. Where as FRN will just bounce back or scratch a little.
 
I'm not so sure about the harder impact stuff. My para has been beaten pretty badly and not only does the G10 survive, it is flat out, absolutely 100% unaffected at all. There isn't even anything visual to suggest something ever happened. FRN seems very tough also, but it does show drops and scratches, definitely.
 
allenC said:
I think that FRN can withstand hard impacts better than G-10 can.
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Joe Dirt said:
I bet G10 is brittle enough to chip or crack if dropped from quite a distance.
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Try cutting G10. It is one of the toughest materials we cut. It is very impact resistant and does not chip easily. I wish it was easier to cut. FRN is more flexible but not nearly as tough.

As far as knife companies moving away from G10, one year it is popular and the next year it is not. The current world wide shortages of titanium and carbon fiber might cause some companies to use G10 on their higher end knives. The Spec Bump is a nice example of how G10 can be used to enhance a top of the line model.
 
I prefer FRN and G-10 about the same. I like them better than micarta or wood too.

I'm not a fan of metal handles. Aluminum, Ti, steel, are cold and slick.

Phil
 
G-10 is great when it's new, But when it gets worn it looks bad and gets real slick I prefer ti or micarta
 
I absolutly love G10 handles, and have found them to be very tough. I was on my friends 2nd floor balconly using my Para when I stabbed it into the wooden railing to use both my hands when it got knocked off onto the pavement two stories down. I was suprised that only the clip got sratched up, tough stuff. Another time I was walking down some icy stairs when i slipped and fell down a few steps on my right side (where my Para is clipped). I remember hearing the knife "clank, scraaaape, clank, scraaaaape" down the steps under my body weight. Once again, only the clip got scratched up.
The poor clip on my Para looks like hell, but the G10 still looks perfect. The resin it is made of takes abuse so well and looks so new it amazes me.
 
Benchmade *seems* to be moving away from the 3D-sculpted G-10 knives, such as the Ares line. But as already mentioned, the HK line with G-10 slabs, is staying, along with the 710 (with new blade steel).

From a manufacturing standpoint, if I were running Benchmade, I'd love to see the entire line using injection-molded FRN-type scales like the Griptilian line — pay for the molds once, make as many knives as you like. Machining scales on a CNC machine, like on the Ares scales, is time-consuming and inefficient, and you have to monitor cutter wear and regularly replace tooling or else your tightly-engineered Axis Lock doesn't work so well.

But since I don't run Benchmade, but buy a lot of their knives, I really truly hope they stick with G-10. There's nothing else that feels as nice in the hand, gives as secure a grip, and takes a beating, like G-10.
 
Don't think they're necessarily moving away from it, perhaps just diversifying a little.

It'd be even better to see them slap some nice jigged bone on their handles... :cool:
 
I personally don't like G-10. I just don't like the look or the feel o fit. I'd much rather have a zytel handle.
 
G-10 is great! I like FRN, but I love G-10! I wish I had a G-10 Police from Spyderco. Ahhhhhhh, what a dream!
 
I personally like g10 I like wood better but in my Military I think its the perfect handle material. I did like it in my benchmades as well. I dont think they'll just drop it I think there just movin with the times tryin to feel out new stuff. G10 will stick around.
 
I love g-10. I wont buy a knife with the aluminum handles like you find on many of the Benchmade or Microtech knives. I carried an annodized aliminum key chain long enough to know that annoed Al will look like hell in short order if allowed to rub against otehr objects in the pocket. this does not even cover the grip issue for Al handles. I have knoves with FRn, G10, Micarto etc handles by far my preference is the G-10.
 
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