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Benchmade SUCKS?

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So today I finally got my hands on a digital rockwell hardness tester at my new job and decided to test a couple of folder I rarely carry. Today I tested my mini grip. I took it apart and did the test near the pivot. To my surprise, it came in at 41 HRC:thumbdn: This is supposedly 154cm people! So I tried again on the other side of the pivot and it came in at 42 HRC!

Does anybody have any explanation?

I am going to try a ZT 0560 in the next couple of days and see what happens.
 
Officially, Benchmade posts the hardness of their 154CM stainless steel blade as 58-61HRC so it'd be tough to grasp if it really was 41-42HRC!
 
RamZar said:
Officially, Benchmade posts the hardness of their 154CM stainless steel blade as 58-61HRC so it'd be tough to grasp if it really was 41-42HRC!
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If I told you apples are blue would you believe me?
 
Dunham said:
So today I finally got my hands on a digital rockwell hardness tester at my new job and decided to test a couple of folder I rarely carry. Today I tested my mini grip. I took it apart and did the test near the pivot. To my surprise, it came in at 41 HRC:thumbdn: This is supposedly 154cm people! So I tried again on the other side of the pivot and it came in at 42 HRC!

Does anybody have any explanation?

I am going to try a ZT 0560 in the next couple of days and see what happens.
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I doubt it would be full hardness at the pivot. If I were making a folder, I'd want it hard at the edge and more ductile in the parts that would have lateral stress like the spine and the pivot.

Try testing closer to the bevel.



I've only had one benchmade (mini ritter grip) and I figured out that I don't like s30v at all. Otherwise, it's a fine knife.
 
Was it a coated knife? If so, did you test the coated part?

There's no way in hell that my 154CM Benchmades are that low.

(You may want to rethink the title of this thread, BTW)
 
Has to be a mistake, 41 can't possibly be correct concidering the fact a Vic SAK which is soft as hell hovers around 54 to 55.

41 would put it somewhere in between gingerbread and rubber.
 
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Yeah, everybody go ahead and take a gander at op's posts so far. I wouldn't put too much faith in this thread.
 
rajincagin said:
You join a forum JUST to bash a reputable knife company then wonder why no one is taking you seriously... :rolleyes:
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I can say what I want, 1st amendment says so! What I say here and in previous posts has nothing to do with the fact that benchmade uses garbage Chinese steel.

I only use high end knives for all my tactical purposes anyways. Most of you wouldn't even know about the knives I own...
 
Dunham said:
I can say what I want, 1st amendment says so! What I say here and in previous posts has nothing to do with the fact that benchmade uses garbage Chinese steel.

I only use high end knives for all my tactical purposes anyways. Most of you wouldn't even know about the knives I own...
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No one cares either. "Tactical purposes", oh do tell. Let me pull up a chair because this should be great. :rolleyes:
 
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