Benchmade 630 Skirmish

[HotSwat]

I have a few knives, and I have been collecting for the past 20 years. The best production knives I have come across is the Benchmade 630 "Skirmish".

Benchmade is a great knife company. Benchmade is best known for the axis-lock, which is a triumph in industrial design. Even though the 630 doesn't have the axis-lock it is still an example of what Benchmade is all about.

The 630 is a prefect storm. It has tons of aspects that make it head and shoulders above the rest.

Spyderco and Kershaw collaborated on a knife called the Spyker. A Ken Onion designed knife with some Spyderco esstetics built in. That knife has a very similar silhouette to the skirmish. Add the s30v and titanium configuration of the Sebenza and you have a skirmish. The skirmish is also about the same size and heft as a ZT or Strider.

In the end you get a knife that resembles a custom knife , that is tough enough too be military issued all packed into a ascetically beautiful package.

 

[Glock&Surefire]

I know I really like my small skirmish, it is very well made, sebenza like.

 

[THE PUNISHER]

love the skirm,i have 19 several le models one i have pimped,why they killed it is beyond me :grumpy: ,productions cost,the sales where always there.........

 

[Toyz]

Killer knife. I picked one up a few months ago - and have been nothing less than impressed with it. It is part of my edc line-up.

The clip is a weak feature - but I'm not letting that ruin my love of the knife.

I really wanted one with the blue handles and black blade, but they are limited production runs and tough to find.

 

[Stainz]

Hmmm, my clip is just fine - left off in the box! Sorry for the late reply, but I was in Gulf Shores for a week of vacation.

I decided I had to have a Skirmish a few months back. Many attempts later, I elected to 'settle' for the black bladed mini (BM635BK) still in-stock at my local gun & knife emporium/pusher - and at a great price. It was there one day - gone the next, when I went to buy it. A week or so later, on our tenth anniversary, I found a NIB 630 Skirmish at a better B-i-N price on Evil-Bay - and ordered it. That night, my wife presented me with the mini - she had skunked me at the 'pusher's'! A few days later, my 630 arrived - perfection! Both are perfectly even, hair-popping sharp, centered perfectly, and have 40-50% frame lock engagement. I am most impressed... June was a great month for me. Cost-wise I have, including s/t, less than the least expensive small Sebbie in the pair. They brought me back to Benchmade, after two new dull ones in the last nearly seven years.

Great knives. The 'feel' - and balance - in the hand is nearly perfect, oddly very similar between the two. I just had to add my final glee over getting the pair - the OP review is spot on. One fault... the buying of Benchmades has become an addiction. All new - and at bargain prices (LEO prices - even if I am a retired college instructor! Hmmm, I often had SP duties in the USN... Nixon was Prez...), I have bought a 610 RUKUS and 760BK LTi - and received a 710D2 from my wife for my birthday - since. I'm on my third copy of their '09 catalog, too - the others having become stuck due to my drool. Seriously, I am glad I gave them another shot - the 551 (440C) and 201 (D2) having arrived too dull to cut butter (Eventually, a Sharpmaker corrected that!). The Skirmish changed my opinion, that's for sure. Sorry for the late rant - but I love those Benchmades!

Stainz