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One family of new Benchmades, announced at the SHOT Show, is now shipping through normal distribution channels. No, not the smaller Axis Lock! It's the new series of drop-point Ascent variants, with full flat-grind blades and thumb studs instead of the Spydie holes.
Here's a scan of the 825, the 835SBT, and the 845:
One First Impression: The right-handed clip seems to interfere less with the left thumb on the thumb-stud style blade than it does with the blade hole, when opening it left-handed.
And the 845 in the picture stayed locked open with several backwards slaps against a file folder on my terminally cluttered desk.
- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 05 March 1999).]
Here's a scan of the 825, the 835SBT, and the 845:

One First Impression: The right-handed clip seems to interfere less with the left thumb on the thumb-stud style blade than it does with the blade hole, when opening it left-handed.
And the 845 in the picture stayed locked open with several backwards slaps against a file folder on my terminally cluttered desk.
- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 05 March 1999).]