benchmade 5400 ?

[steveg30]

I have a benchmade 5400 , seems to be a cool knife I like the double action of it. But it seems to get no love why do people not like it? The blade is shaped like the 615 and it feels good in the hand in manual mode it opens very smooth and in auto mode it fire's fast and hard.

 

[Dsmroots]

I really like mine. Mainly for the "cool" factor but it is a beautiful knife. The mill work on the g10 is pretty impressive and manual and auto action are smooth. Now I couldn't say I would have bought it if it was strictly a manual knife or strictly an auto because of the price but I was more than happy to buy it for what it is.

I don't know if it will gain much reputation as I think benchmade lost a lot of enthusiastic potential buyers when they decided to go from elmax to 154cm. I personally have no experience with elmax so it wasn't much of a bummer for me.

Fwiw, it's in my pocket right now and has been for a couple weeks.