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Benchmade 160 Tetherknife

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meshmdz

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well fellas, i finally got my benchmade tetherknife.:D

http://www.benchmade.com/products/product_detail.aspx?model=160

i am loving this knife. i can tell a big difference in this knife and the CRKT KISS fixed blade i bought a few days ago. i like the CRKT, dont get me wrong but i can just tell a difference in the 2.. i have a few questions for those of you that own benchmades or own this particular knife...

1. is the 440c that much better of a steel than the aus6m?
2. i noticed that when i unsheath this blade, the sheath leaves a minor streak on the blade but it comes off when i rub it on my shirt or with a cleaning cloth.. will this hurt the knife, as far as unsheathing it goes? and will the black come off and when it does, does that mean the knife is defective?

thanks for all the help and advice going into this purchase and i look forward to hearing more in this thread. thanks again..



oh yea, the hell of it is this... i traded the gun shop owner a gerber fixed blade for this knife straight up!!!! :thumbup: tell me i didnt win that one!!!! haha
 
also, does anyone have a picture of this knife that owns one? i have been to the benchmade website and cant seem to save those pictures as they are copy-righted by benchmade. any help here?
 
Here's mine. Gin-1 steel. The sheath will leave marks on the blade, as happens with most coated blades, no harm done.
 

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nice pics man. are you pleased with your 160? is it as tough as all the other benchmade knives? iw as asking because it is so small and thin...
 
also, your knife says GIN-1... mine asys 440c, is my blade weaker than yours or vise versa? i am not familiar with that blade style...
 
I don't own that particular knife, but I own many Benchmades, and I can say that Benchmades version of 440C is excellent. Yes, it is better IMO than AUS-6M (I also own several of the older CRKT knives in that steel). At least better for my own purposes...both take a great edge; 440C seems to get a very grabby sharp and holds the edge better than the 6M. In my experience it also seems to resist corrosion better than the 6M. Both are easy to resharpen.

Regarding the black coating, I do know it can wear, but other than cosmetic appearance, there is no negative effect to the knife. Supposedly, the BT2 coating is in the pores of the steel, and even when scratched, will still pretty much protect against corrosion.
Jim
 
thanks jim... i just dont want my knife looking bad... i know that sounds weird but oh well. i love this little knife though!
 
stormdrane, nice blog man... i like your work on there. is that blog you have for free? can anyone sign up?
 
meshmdz said:
stormdrane, nice blog man... i like your work on there. is that blog you have for free? can anyone sign up?
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The GIN-1 and 440C are similar steels. The Tether is a nice little neck knife, mine is a user. I've had about a dozen different neck knives and the Benchmade is the only one I have left. The blogger I use is free, anyone can sign up, and it's easy to use.
 
so i take ot from your keeping of it, that you love it!!!! i was going to be carrying it for if i needed to cut things but always as a defensive mechanism should i ever dreadfully have to use it as such... (i hope not) either way i hope that it would get the job done... what do ya think.
 
It makes for a great little utility knife. The only thing that bothered me was that mine rattled in the sheath, the sheath holds it securely but it would rattle occasionally, so I added the paracord up to where it locks into the sheath and that stopped the rattle.
 
I've had a TK1 for a few years now. It replaced a CRKT Neck Peck as my EDC neck knife, but has since been re-replaced. I got a Spyderco Swick, and carried that for a while but now ironically I am back to the Neck Peck because I want something I really don't mind beating up. (Unlike the others, I have a backup Neck Peck lying around in case it is lost or rendered useless.)

The only problem I have with the TK1 is that the rubberized coating on the handle wore off after a few years -- though the knife was never used hard. It was on me just about 24/7, in the shower, in the ocean on occasion, etc. Eventually the coating was peeling bad enough that I just pulled the rest of it completely off, and re-coated the thing with about three coats of that black liquid tool dip you get at hardware stores. It's fine now, though that stuff is not as good quality as the original stuff.

I would rather not rely on a plastic or rubber coating on the handle. I wish that Benchmade had made this a truly skeletonized knife -- nothing but metal.

I've always liked the Benchmade 440C steel it was made from, though. It's good stuff.

-Jeffrey
 
Stormdrane said:
It makes for a great little utility knife. The only thing that bothered me was that mine rattled in the sheath, the sheath holds it securely but it would rattle occasionally.
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True, it does rattle, but it seems to me that rare is the neck knife that does not have at least some rattle. :( It's something I would have thought knife companies would have seen fit to eliminate by now... :rolleyes:

-Jeffrey
 
yea mine rattles a bit but its not hurting the knife. truth is, this is about the best neck knife that i think you can get... or that i have seen.
 
meshmdz said:
also, does anyone have a picture of this knife that owns one? i have been to the benchmade website and cant seem to save those pictures as they are copy-righted by benchmade. any help here?
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If you just want to use the image for something like this, highlight it and some text with it, right click on the text to copy, paste it to MS Word and copy the image from there to paint, where you can save it and upload it to an image host like photbucket. Please don't use this method for any real copy right infringement, just for these gray areas that should be protected by fair use, if it wre better defined.
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thanks man i just didnt wanna break any copyright laws or whatever... do you have a 160?
 
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