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Quality for the money:

Porsche- $200,000 (Most probably so)
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Well, I think a Z06 is better value for the money that a $200K Porsche but that's just me. :D

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Tasmaniac said:
Well, I think a Z06 is better value for the money that a $200K Porsche but that's just me.

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You're most probably right since my analogy wasn't done under close scientific tolerances using actual numbers :D

IS a fine lookin' car though!
 
The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is the second of the ZR1 top of the range performance model Corvette on the line and is widely regarded as one of the best performance offers on the planet. Although the Z06 is priced at just north of $74,000, it offers the kind of performance normally reserved for cars costing twice as much.

In the heart of the Corvette Z06 is a 7.0-liter LS7 engine. Born out of the Chevrolet racing program, each engine is hand-built V8 in the GM Performance Build Center in Wixom, Michigan and has a dry sump system, lubrication, titanium valves and connecting rods, forged steel crankshaft with six bolts bearings and high-profile camera.

The result is a Society of Automotive Engineers-certified 505 horsepower and 470 lb.-ft. of torque. This massive engine and the resulting power will allow the Corvette Z06 to fly 60 miles per hour in 3.7 seconds.
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I readily admit that I'm a Vette man.
 
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I have these 4 BM's & have purchased a couple other Mini Grips as gifts - i can assure you that none of them suck!
2-Liner locks & 2 Axis Locks and i love them all! I have never received a BM that didnt come shaving sharp and never had any QC issues either...in fact this thread has envoked my sick knife lust even more and i think a new Bedlam may be my next BM purchase.
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themegajosh09 said:
i was wondering why everyone likes benchmade or it seems like everyone does.
i find that they only have a few desighns i like and the quality doesnt impress me for the money
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Saying the quality doesn't impress is your personal opinion and while everyone is totally entitled to their own views it doesn't leave Benchmade anywhere close to sucking.
I have quite a few blades from them that I love and rotate through.
 
Totally off the OP's topic, but - as to car values...

It's almost been seven years since my wife ordered her orange blast '05 Dodge SRT-4, a real pocket rocket. It arrived in late October '04 - and she loved the Mustang GT eatter, collecting speeding tickets to prove that fact. A nagging and worsening clutch pedal problem was diagnosed as a clutch replacement - $1200-$1800, depending on facility. I took it to a family owned tranny shop - they replaced the clutch pedal axle bushings - problem solved - $30 OTD. Before my wife's confidence was regained - we looked at small cars - including the new Fiat 500c. She fell in love with the drop top variant of the dimunitive 101 hp car - at more than the price her SRT-4 had listed for. Not a deal - her car had more amenities - and could climb a tree - and was paid for.

Does the Fiat 'suck'? No - it just isn't for me - or, thankfully, my wife. Semantics? Perhaps - but we see them everywhere.

Stainz

PS I owned & drove nine Alfa Romeo's from '74-'84, starting with a new '73 Berlina. Also bought my first wife a new '76 Fiat 131. I am versed in Italian cars - incuding the 20+ year run of the older Euro Fiat 500 - the teeny car that made a Citroen 2CV look extravagant. Resurrecting that name is like Lincoln coming out with a new model and calling it the 'new' Edsel!
 
I don't even like modern folding knives, but even I am pretty impressed with what i have seen from Benchmade. Never owned one though
 
I think benchmade makes quality knives that contribute to the knife community. Also they are probably one of the best production knives that you will find. But if their quality and design concerns you then by all means buy a custom folder if you have the money, but for work related knives I'll stick with cheaper production knives.
 
i just think for the cost of their knives there is so many knives out there that are cheaper for the quality. they dont suck as a company but i think there price sucks i believe they could cut the price in half on alot of their knives. i dont believe for the money that you are not getting anything special.
 
Suck? No, I dont think so. But (you knew there would be a but) I dont care for many of their "newer" designs. I was a huge benchmade fan in the early 90's, but IMO they have all started to be pretty much the same look in the last few years. As from a quality standpoint, I still think they are a good quality brand. Now Gerber and Buck on the other hand............
 
You could have posted than instead of what you did. Your post came off a nothing short of trollish. I'm not a huge fan of some of the models, but the are a handful of models that are exceptional. The same can be said of most things. Looks like a lot of new people are starting threads with strong and very uninformed opinions.
 
themegajosh09 said:
i just think for the cost of their knives there is so many knives out there that are cheaper for the quality. they dont suck as a company but i think there price sucks i believe they could cut the price in half on alot of their knives. i dont believe for the money that you are not getting anything special.
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Then why the hell did you entitle the thread "benchmade sucks?" Troll.
 
I own exactly one Benchmade knife. But then, I'm underprivileged...I only own one Busse.

On November 25, 1996, I bought a Benchmade 401-S (Panther) liner lock for the princely sum of $35.99 out the door. (I still have the box, papers, little plastic bag, and receipt.) The banner on the blade logo says "Bali-Song" instead of "Benchmade." It has a 3.25 inch 50/50 blade..they call it a Weehawk blade. Don't know what steel it is. Benchmade says it's "high carbon stainless."

I have carried it every single day since then. Yes, every single day. Clipped inside the waistband, appendix location. The plain edge part of the blade has only been touched up as needed with a small ceramic stone, or stropped on an old belt (no compound), or stropped on an empty paper towel roll. I've never sharpened the serrations. I don't use it for a screwdriver, I don't baton it, and I don't use it as a prybar. But it has cut anything I have needed to cut. It has trimmed my cuticles, cut paracord, whittled tent pegs, cut cardboard, and cut the clothes and seat belts off people injured in auto crashes, among other tasks. (Sometimes I feel the need to have a bare spot on my forearm.) To this day it has absolutely zero blade play (which amazes me). With a jeweler's loupe, I can see two very tiny nicks in the plain edge, and one of the serrations has rolled a little bit. That serration may have come that way; I only noticed it under magnification fairly recently. I had to take the pocket clip off and bend it slightly to add a little tension. It came new with too little tension. I wipe it off after use, usually on my pant leg. I rinse it off once in a while. Blow out the pocket lint from time to time. That's the extent of the maintenance it has required.

The one downside to this knife is that the pivot pin is also the screw (bolt?) that holds the pocket clip on. If you tighten it too much, it's hard (or impossible) to open the blade. I can live with this. Snugged up just right, it doesn't seem to work loose. I don't think it sucks.

Would I buy another Benchmade? Sure would. I just don't need one. I don't like the design of every single knife that Benchmade makes...but I like this one.

But, if I came across a Benchmade 401 (no -S) in good shape, the same knife with a 100% plain edge, I might jump on it.
 
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Benchmade is a mass produced knife manufacture that does an excellent job at a very good price point. They have great design and I find myself using their folder more then any other. They use some great steels from M390 to 154cm they have different steel for everyone. To me the axis design is my favorite. Locks solid and I trust it more then a liner lock. Their fit and finish is quite nice and they dont tend to me a rip. Sure you could get a Chris Reeves but it will come at a heavy price. For a great everyday knife that will hold its own benchmade is hard to beat.
 
ono724 said:
Quality for the money:

Porsche- $200,000 (Most probably so)

Ford Taurus- $200,000 (I highly doubt it)

How much am I willing to pay for it:

Porsche- $200,000 (Maybe so)

Ford Taurus- $200,000 (Not a chance. $25,000 maybe)

It's not really a hard concept, why make it one?

As far as Benchmade is concerned. They wouldn't be selling as many knives as they do if they sucked. I have 3, they're all awesome knives, couldn't be happier. :D
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That is very poor example for what quality means. You probably mistaking quality for something else - for technical complexity and technological innovation, for branding, for marketing budget and market positioning, small-volume bespoke production... I do not know what you actually mean here... That every Ford Taurus is a piece of shait, higly unreliable and falling apart joke of a car... Or that Porshe for 200,000 is more car per buck than Ford Taurus for 25,000? Or what?
You sort of made the quality concept very complicated.
I believe you substitute quality with your own consumer preference and believe that it should be equaly accepted by everybody - not a chance! ;)

P.S. Benchmade makes a number of great knives - the rest are just good ones. If OP does not like all of them - that is his own problem: he is missing a lot, BM missing nothing.
 
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themegajosh09 said:
i just think for the cost of their knives there is so many knives out there that are cheaper for the quality. they dont suck as a company but i think there price sucks i believe they could cut the price in half on alot of their knives. i dont believe for the money that you are not getting anything special.
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So you decided to make a very opinionated and uninformed post and then you don't even stick around to back up your absurd claims? The one and only post you made to your own thread does not even answer any of the myriad of questions you were asked, but to say you really just think they are over priced. I will be honest I don't think you own the first Benchmade knife and would be surprised if you have even held one.

I can provide knife models and what they can be bought for and equivalent models from other companies that cost the same and use the same steel and materials which makes them BM competitively priced. Sure if you pay full retail or even MAPP @ 15% off retail they will cost more. But they can be bought for substantially less than those prices which make them fair priced. Im not going through their whole catalog but a full size Bone Collector with D2 blade, 3D sculpted G10 handle scales, skeletonized liners, and the AXIS lock which is one of the strongest and most user friendly locks in the knife industry, can all be had for about $92. What is wrong with that priceh or what you get for it. In fact I bet you would have a hard time finding a knife from another company with similar features at that price. And since you keep bringing up quality, it will be made just as good as any other sub $200 mass produced knife and more than likely the average knife user won't be able to find the first flaw.

There is a saying to read more and post less. However, I think you probably already made quite a few ignore lists or will be labeled a troll in the future. Calling out one of the biggest and most popular knife companies and saying they suck without anything to back it up, and then not responding to the thread, just wasnt going to end well.

At least school is about to start back up and there just won't be as much time to post to this mega awesome knife forum.
 
Benchmade makes nice knives, no question. All of the BM knives I have owned have been great quality blades. Only knock would be the out of the box sharpness. I had a Mini-Rukus which was a hell of a knife and would shave hair like a mother, but all the others have been so-so on sharpness (what I would consider "user" sharp). Cost is directly relative to your addiction. Some people would consider you to be insane to pay $110 for a Ritter Griptilian. Others will pay the $110 and then spend another $200 to buy a set of Kevin Wilkins custom scales. Benchmade sucks? Absolutely not.
 
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