Benchmade Dejavoo liner lock

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SharpestKnife

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Ok.. so i've been hearing about a lot of problems with the Benchmade Dejavoo (i.e. blade retention, weak liner lock). Do you guys think it's still worth the buy? Are these problems, or just the way the knife was designed? Please give me answers. :)
 
I had the option of the dejavoo and a mini-rukus, I ended up with the rukus for all the reasons you stated. The dejavoo is a very nice knife with it milled G-10 sleek blade profile and good looks but I couldn't get over the sloppy feel of it.
 
i had a mini dejavoo and the closed retention was very poor, but once it was open i had no fear of accidentally closing it, or thinking the liner itsself was weak. there is a viedo on youtube of how to fix it though...
 
I've never owned one so dont base your entire decision on this, but I have handled them on many different occassions and I have to say that I really like it. The blade shape looks as though it would really slice nicely being ffg and s30v. I love the feel of the scales too, fits my hand very well and while the g10 is smooth its not polished so it still has a decent grip to it. Not to mention its straight up dead sexy!! The only reason I haven't picked up one of my own is because for the price I'd really like to have a different style lock. With so many nice production knives in that price rang WITH strong clever locks it makes it hard for me to drop the cash on it.
 
For the price, it should be tits, at least as far as function. It isn't. Skip it, too many well made pieces out there to spend the cash on something substandard. Send Benchmade a message by voting with your dollars.

Yes, I had one. No, I was not happy.:thumbdn:
 
The liner lock is fine on the two I own. I just find the ball detent useless for truly keeping the blade closed as it should. This has been the fundamental problem with the Dejavoo. You can tighten the pivot screw but then you lose that nice smooth opening. To me it's a great knife other than the ball detent issue.
 
You can always give the liner lock more bend so that it fits against the closed blade with more force, but you have to be careful that this doesn't put the liner too far to the right when open. It it is locking up on the left side of the blade then it should be safe to bend, BUT bend only in very small increments.
 
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