Benchmade Adamas realization

Danny Linguini said:
Did it ever occur to you that you might have gotten a lemon with a defective locking mechanism? Did it occur to you to take it up with Benchmade to see if they’d offer to fix or replace it, or did you seen another YouTube idiot decide that dealing with their customer support would be an exercise in futility and leave it at that? If many Adamas owners were complaining that their locked knives were closing by themselves from being looked at the wrong way, I’d agree that there’s a problem. But I’m only seeing about three, so I’m guessing that if there is a problem, it’s limited to very few examples, a bad batch of blades at worst.
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What excuse would there be for a bad batch of blades? The guy that started this post did seek help from benchmade and ended up with the same problem that he had to begin with.
 
Well I guess I have been caught up in the nonsense - I just got done beating my EDC ( Benchmade Taggedout) against an old table top. It passed the test! I have an Adamas on the way, a recent purchase from a forum member - I'll let you know.
 
nigol said:
It's an obvious design flaw. When a 300 dollar knife will close when the blade is accidentally banged on a table edge that's a problem. Even the cheapest of knives won't do that
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Ok, so let me see if I have this right. You're making a statement saying that the BM Adamas has an "obvious design flaw", when many of us state that our knives don't do what you're describing, then you end your comment with a sweeping statement that you couldn't possibly know objectively?

Ok, cool. Cool cool cool. :rolleyes:
 
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Just got my Adamas 275BK. What a beast of a knife! Love it! Of course it passed the silly wack the spine test, but I won’t be doing that again - no reason to uselessly abuse a fine knife.

And, after fooling with the knife a little, I have to say it has maybe the smoothest action I have experienced - and I am comparing it to my Inkosi and Spyderco Militaries!
 
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Sibyrnes said:
Just got my Adamas 275BK. What a beast of a knife! Love it! Of course it passed the silly wack the spine test, but I won’t be doing that again - no reason to uselessly abuse a fine knife.

And, after fooling with the knife a little, I have to say it has maybe the smoothest action I have experienced - and I am comparing it to my Inkosi and Spyderco Militaries!
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I really am smitten with the design. I'm not going to go all in defending it from people who may have had some earnest issues, but both my full size Auto and my Mini as some of my favorite tanks. If i'm going for a light walk in the woods, the Mini usually gets the nod. Just a super comfy and very convenient style of blade to open and use. I will say that the action on the manual Adamas was one of the easiest to dial in. I have it tight enough that it won't wiggle in any direction once locked but it's not stiff to open. It's just a long gradual smooth push. Might make it a little less fidgety, but it makes for a very smooth and solid lock up. Like you said, really compares to the Inkosi.
 
Yeah, an Inkosi with the Axis lock😍! Something I haven’t seen mentioned, but the Adamas deploys a lot more quietly than other large folders - almost silent in comparison!
 
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Well I have learned a few things in the last couple days.

The knife is built great, and has silky smooth deployment.

The tang and lock bar interface however, is pretty early. The blade can be folded with pretty minimal pressure on the axis lock.

The axis spring is also fairly soft.

I have not batoned it, as I have not needed to, but I can see how the shock could cause the bar to slip off the blade tang.

I do use my heavier folders for light chopping of overgrown brush on occasion. We will see if this is an issue. Too early to tell.

If it passes this sort of tasks I'll chalk this up as a win.
 
MolokaiRider said:
Well I have learned a few things in the last couple days.

The knife is built great, and has silky smooth deployment.

The tang and lock bar interface however, is pretty early. The blade can be folded with pretty minimal pressure on the axis lock.

The axis spring is also fairly soft.

I have not batoned it, as I have not needed to, but I can see how the shock could cause the bar to slip off the blade tang.

I do use my heavier folders for light chopping of overgrown brush on occasion. We will see if this is an issue. Too early to tell.

If it passes this sort of tasks I'll chalk this up as a win.
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I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic or serious???
 
Sibyrnes said:
I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic or serious???
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Sorry if my post comes off as such.

Its just my observations after a short few days of playing around with an Adamas.

I haven't had time to use it enough to say if the lock will fail using the knife like I normally would.
 
Fair points 👍

I wouldn't put the Axis highest on my list in terms of doing jobs where shock could wallow out the lock. The fairly weak springs along with no resistance on the blade when it drops shut could be an issue.

I see them holding up great to static pressure. I still think it's tough to beat a triad when it comes to treating a folder like a fixed blade.

I do really like the Adamas for most any normal folder tasks.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Fair points 👍

I wouldn't put the Axis highest on my list in terms of doing jobs where shock could wallow out the lock. The fairly weak springs along with no resistance on the blade when it drops shut could be an issue.

I see them holding up great to static pressure. I still think it's tough to beat a triad when it comes to treating a folder like a fixed blade.
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I'm with ya.

I am still thinking that the knife is going to perform just fine.

Whacking the thing the spine is not really something I do on any of my folders. As long as the Adamas stays locked using it under what I consider normal use by just cutting stuff I consider it fine.

Its still too early for me to tell, but so far it's worked fine.

Cut a few thick zip ties, levered some thorns out of boots, whacked a couple of small branches, cut down three shipping boxes, cut open bundles of harvest bags, and cut tangled drip line from the bush hog.

No problems
 
This image is from a thread here, showing side by side differences in lock engagement:17EF5DA2-E437-4F37-A9A7-6759A0610399.jpeg
I wonder if some have lock bars which engage even further back. If so, maybe that could account for some of the reports?
 
Sibyrnes said:
So far I have seen no credible evidence of this.
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And that's fine. The one I have only needs to travel 40% of the length of the disengagement slots to fully disengage.

The lockbar also seats on the very end of the tang as well.

I have not experienced any failure though. The knife itself is pretty awesome.

Locked:
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Unlocked:
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Locked. You can see the lock bar is all the way on the end of the tang.
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Here you can see the part of the tang that has wear from the lock bar interface. It is all the way to the end of the tang.
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Again, I want to reiterate that I have had no trouble with the knife. Only that I can see how it is possible that from shock it could be made to slip off.
 
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