Benchmade 737 Aileron

[KingMC]

Depends. Not all materials will split into a V shape when cut into. i think alot of them will push back in against either side of the knife and thus will make contact with the texture.

I think a wide fuller under the spine would have been a better option for a surface to get a purchase on for two handed openings.

The *vast* majority of materials a normal person would cut with an EDC knife such as this will barely make contact past the edge, in my warehouse jobs where I've used knives on the daily even the standard materials I have cut like foam, cardboard, packing straps, shrink-wrap, and wood never contact the flats of a saber-ground blade.

More tactile materials that would do as you have said are not very common (even most foods are rigid enough to avoid such a problem), so even though it is technically a problem in the real world it's a minor inconvenience a tiny fraction of the time at worst.

 

[Mick_1KRR]

So we have the 940 series, the rukus, the adamas, the 710, the afck, crooked river the bugout.....

Kinda feels like a highschool rock band coming on after Dire Straits.

 

[Wowbagger]

gimmicky abbrasive patches on the blade . . . will inevitably gather crud if you actually use it to cut something. PASS.

Also cause a ton of drag in the cut.
I wasn't going to say anything. (Seems like I have been doing to much negative commentary lately).
I'm glad you said it and I can just agree with you.
The handle isn't bad though.

 

[TheEdge01]

Innovating what? Square milling?

I was referring to the appearance, I guess innovation wasn’t the correct term to use.

 

[rxavage]

I wish this came in blue without the laser grip deco

 

[b00n]

I was referring to the appearance, I guess innovation wasn’t the correct term to use.

It's cool, I get what you mean it's an unusual look and thing to do. I'd even call it a design innovantion. Not a really necessary, practical or particularly good looking one but not something that has been done before.

 

[Insipid Moniker]

I, for one, am happy that Benchmade is finally putting out an Axis lock drop point folder in S30V with a blade between 3.5"-3.25". That was a real hole in their lineup.

 

[BD_01]

But does it have a hollow handle for compass, fire starter and poop?

Or maybe for a pencil?

 

[Quiet]

I'm just going to say it. This guy clearly has some extensive training, but that deployment method is one of the flat-out dumbest things I've ever seen in something that's meant to be a defensive tool. I can barely believe this was serious. As Lapedog already mentioned, a guy with a waved knife is going to have his tool in his hand and ready to rock before the other guy is going to be able to take this knife out of their pocket, open it, and present it forward like "KNIFE! CHA!" Incredible that this is being taught as valid technique. It might work for someone with years and years of previous training (barely) with the hand-speed this needs, but someone who learned this in a weekend seminar they paid $500 or whatever to attend are going to get destroyed while still trying to unclip it from their pocket.

 

[Petunia D. Feeble]

Let's be honest here: how often do people using knives with saber grinds find themselves cutting something that is dragging along the flats above the bevel? Take a look at a coated saber-grind and find all the wear spots, you'll notice most of the wear is either immediately behind the edge or directly on the shoulder between the bevel and the flat; the amount of contact the flat makes on almost every texture of material one would cut with a knife is minimal to non-existent. Having texture on the flat is going to do almost nothing to impede the cutting ability of this knife, especially considering what it's designed to be good at.

Sure, it's gimmicky as hell and seems redundant giving the supplied hole one can also use to open the blade, but to think that texture will impede any normal usage a buyer might put it through is nonsense.

Oh, I don't think it'll impede performance. I just think it'll gather crap. How hard is tape adhesive going to be to get out of that texturing?

 

[unwisefool]

Oh, I don't think it'll impede performance. I just think it'll gather crap. How hard is tape adhesive going to be to get out of that texturing?

You don't use it for tape, don't be silly. Tape is for your 3rd backup knife.

 

[19-3ben]

So I don't get it.

Where's the laser etching on my BM Proper, so that I can tactically deploy it with two hands, instead of the archaic "Goober deployment" method I've been using thus far?

 

[unwisefool]

I'm still trying to understand this two handed method of opening and why it would be considered better than one handed opening.

 

[19-3ben]

Tarani graduated from Bahala Na, which I also attended. He's also spent time I believe in Indonesia training and discovering different hand to hand weapons.

Is that supposed to mean anything to us?... you know, apart from loosely translating to mean the same thing as "hakuna matata." (seriously, look it up... it does)

 

[Petunia D. Feeble]

The knife may not appeal to any of us but Steve Tarani is a serious operator.

Tarani graduated from Bahala Na, which I also attended. He's also spent time I believe in Indonesia training and discovering different hand to hand weapons.

Did you watch the video? He does a lot of the same nonsese most of the McMartial-artists do. Like striking you on the chin with open fingers and then quickly disarming you like Denzel Washington. I have ZERO trainging and I'd love to have him try to barehand a knife away from me.

This wreaks of #legitasfuck. Some brilliant stuff on Instagram with that hashtag. Instant mood booster.

 

[stonproject]

Is that supposed to mean anything to us?... you know, apart from loosely translating to mean the same thing as "hakuna matata." (seriously, look it up.. it does"

Sounds like a lot of bahaloney.

 

[Quiet]

Sounds like a lot of bahaloney.

Careful, some people are really deadly with pencils, from what I've heard.


LOL

 

[Petunia D. Feeble]

Is that supposed to mean anything to us?... you know, apart from loosely translating to mean the same thing as "hakuna matata." (seriously, look it up.. it does"

It's an Escrima school. Same sort of nonsense. They teach you to disarm people... who only fight with a single limb and have the grip strength of a toddler.

They always lose me with the disarm techniques. Have the guy death grip the blade and start kicking you in the balls. NOW try to get it out of his hand.

 

[Lapedog]

I'm just going to say it. This guy clearly has some extensive training, but that deployment method is one of the flat-out dumbest things I've ever seen in something that's meant to be a defensive tool. I can barely believe this was serious. As Lapedog already mentioned, a guy with a waved knife is going to have his tool in his hand and ready to rock before the other guy is going to be able to take this knife out of their pocket, open it, and present it forward like "KNIFE! CHA!" Incredible that this is being taught as valid technique. It might work for someone with years and years of previous training (barely) with the hand-speed this needs, but someone who learned this in a weekend seminar they paid $500 or whatever to attend are going to get destroyed while still trying to unclip it from their pocket.

The idea is that under stress it is very easy to lose fine motor function and possible to botch a thumb stud or flipper opening. The two handed opening method is supposedly easier to do when your hands are shaking from adrenaline. (Though I honestly can’t say if it is or not) Clearly this guy was majorly hamming it up though. Just better hope you have both hands free.

However that is the entire idea of the wave. That with some practice it is repeatable gross motor move. Honestly Emerson’s iteration of the wave isn’t the best version. Its size makes it easier to mess up a deployment. I find the larger wave on the Spyderco waved Endura or Delica to be much more reliable. The peg wave one the P’kal is virtually foolproof with practice.

When I first saw the peg wave on the Pikal I thought it was going to start showing up everywhere. Not only is it very effective but it is actually also removable. It can be unscrewed from the spine, though I think you would need to pinch it with pliars and a rubber band because there is nothing on it to grip.

 

[SpySmasher]

Honestly, that two handed technique looks like it might have had some utility in building muscle memory back when everybody was wearing a Buck 110 in a sheath.

Like around the time I was born.