Benchmade 586-141 Limited Edition

The best LE they have released in a long time... but yah, that's custom maker pricing.
 
I hope BM sees this falling flat for most buyers.

When I saw $700 I started laughing, cheaper to get nice scales from a knife pimper, heck, listing a hand ground edge as a feature?!

I love the customer support, I understand LE runs.... but how exactly is this knife worth anywhere near $700

Last year I paid $200 for a forum knife dressed up in CF with a M4 blade... this year you want to sell CF (weird inlay) and M390 for that much... That knife is worth ~$250-$275 tops.
 
Skimo said:
... you want to sell CF (weird inlay) and M390 for that much [$700]... That knife is worth ~$250-$275 tops.
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The claim to fame of this LE 586 is ONLY the "3D machined carbon fiber handles with red C-Tek epoxy infused aluminum honeycomb inlays". That is all over a stock 586BK.

Their 3D machining is nowhere near what KAI achieved on the ZT 0777. Real layered 3D contouring on CF is expensive on the bits!

Sure, they have the C-Tek layer but it begs questioning.

Seems like an un-golden Gold Class. It even cheapens the Gold Class in general.
 
I must admit that I am very attracted to this knife but that is an impossible price point.

Benchmade must have a lot of customers willing to pay these prices apparently since supply and demand dictates price. We assume they will hurt from pulling the online discount codes but it seems that they'll be ok and have no problem selling $700 knives to God knows who in those brick and mortar stores.
 
I'd sooner have bead-blasted, anodized, and contoured all-Ti scales made for my 581. It'll be cheaper.
 
300$ is max I'd pay for this. Benchmade can go f themselves foe 700$. The only thing different is the scales and spacers. And that's not 500 $ worth of work.
 
Like I said I really like this knife. Now that Ive stared at it for half a day, Im in love.

It is too bad that Im completely priced out of this.
 
This is a SERIOUSLY nice knife, I'll be getting one for sure! Great job BM, another fine example of why BM is tops:thumbup:
 
salmonkiller said:
I wish BM would DLC coat more knives.I am guessing that's what justifies the MSRP?Nice knife, but I would be divorced pronto if I spent $700 on a knife.I will wait for a working class knife at a working class price point.
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I don't see it. You can get a pistol barrel on a gun done for $40 with Ionbond DLC coating. That's individual too, not a lower rate like you'd get from doing x number of units. Kershaw knives with it vs the regular models are an extra $10 or $15.
 
This is indeed a beautiful piece, the inlay looks very nice, great steel (Benchmade does know how to get the most our of it), and the CF handles are excellent. Just can't swing that much on a knife, but I'm sure those that can and will buy it will enjoy it.
 
Was it PT Barnum that said, "There is a sucker born every day"?
For $700 I'd buy a Buck and a nice Ruger revolver.
It's pretty, but it ain't that pretty.
Good grief, I love my Benchmade knives that I have. But whoever is running the company must be smokin' crack. Except, I defer to my first line. It will sell.
 
rockspyder said:
Was it PT Barnum that said, "There is a sucker born every day"?
For $700 I'd buy a Buck and a nice Ruger revolver.
It's pretty, but it ain't that pretty.
Good grief, I love my Benchmade knives that I have. But whoever is running the company must be smokin' crack. Except, I defer to my first line. It will sell.
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I posted that they must be smoking crack on their Facebook page about this knife. I was told by some fanboy that I was disrespectful and must have been raised poorly.
 
They can just make them for their fanboys, that's fine with me. I can have a better 581 for way less.

The pedestrian-version 3505 might be worth it, with the bolsterlock and Sibert-design, and even then, barely so.

I guess they're trying to get some action from the hype generated by the latest safe-queen ZTs.
 
dfsutton said:
I posted that they must be smoking crack on their Facebook page about this knife. I was told by some fanboy that I was disrespectful and must have been raised poorly.
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I'd say you're just a critical thinker that doesn't necessarily follow the masses.

gooeytek said:
I guess they're trying to get some action from the hype generated by the latest safe-queen ZTs.
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I think you are probably very close to the truth there.
 
That knife is too expensive, you can get better handles, blades, pins, and pocket clips from gerber, cheaper too
 
Where is this $700 figure from? There seems to be a lot of outrage over the cost. I can't find anywhere that Benchmade has announced an MSRP. It just seems some one said $700 and then everyone ran with it and there is a lot of outrage over nothing.
 
rajincagin said:
That knife is too expensive, you can get better handles, blades, pins, and pocket clips from gerber, cheaper too
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