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I am employed at a local outdoors store in South Carolina. We sell a range of knives, the highest quality being benchmade and spyderco. Inexperienced and uneducated customers have occasionally complained about benchmades "feeling cheap". I finally starting asking, "what about it feels cheap to you?".. Almost every reply refers to the axis lock. People use the mechanism next to garbage folders and attribute the smoothness of the action to a "cheap lock". They don't trust the axis lock. They open a buck 110 and feel/ hear the lock engage and to them, it means better quality.

One response I remember was, "That thing is too easy to open and close, It isn't made as strong. I want my knife to stay open when I'm using it!"

I shrug my shoulders. Customers think they know everything there is to know about knives, then walk out with a gerber paraframe. I am thinking about starting a thread quoting the things I hear on a daily basis.
 
perfectstorm said:
i have had several benchmades ...grip..mini grip...pres....what im saying is there handles feel cheap compared to say a syderco frn or even most sogs and i even say cold steel even feels better built then benchmades. for example i traded a mini grip last month for a cheaper sog cause it just feels in the hand so cheap. i just dont get the prices for those things.
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I bet the dude who you traded with is one another forum bragging about how he just ripped you off/got a steal of a deal.

I am with you on the cheap feeling handles though. I have a mini-barrage and don't like the slick FRN. That doesn't mean I would trade it away for an inferior knife (foreign built with lower quality steel and GRN handles).
 
This is a joke, the only real complaint are about Grips which are a cheap knife in my opinion. If you don't want something to feel cheap spend a bit of money, you buy something with a form of plastic for its handles and its going to feel like plastic..
 
RemyKaze said:
You're talking to butthurt fanboys here. So, they're going to argue with you. I agree with you on some points. I have handled most of what I see on here excluding the Adamas and Contego, since I see them as pointless in comparison to a good fixed blade. I find some of the handles to be ok, but nothing special. Same as the FRN Spydercos, except they're cheaper for what they are with the same great blades. The action of Benchmades is what I don't like. I like a hard snap and a very controlled close; I've seen too many Benchmade owners disengage that lock and just let the knife drop. Nothing wrong with that, just not my style.
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So you like knives that don't have smooth actions and are hard to close, makes sense. I assume by "that lock" you mean an axis lock, BM makes knives with other style locks maybe you should check them out or not. My butt feels just fine I'm no fanboy I only own one BM folder a 790 it snaps open quite well.
 
Dane.Chichester said:
This is a joke, the only real complaint are about Grips which are a cheap knife in my opinion. If you don't want something to feel cheap spend a bit of money, you buy something with a form of plastic for its handles and its going to feel like plastic..
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ill have to disagree bm feels like lego plastic..other knives that use plastic feel better not so flimsy.if i was gonna spend the money i would stick to a better company someone who dosnt steal other companys trademark.
 
perfectstorm said:
ill have to disagree bm feels like lego plastic..other knives that use plastic feel better not so flimsy.if i was gonna spend the money i would stick to a better company someone who dosnt steal other companys trademark.
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once again, try one without plastic handles then. Only a very small percentage of bm knives have valox or noryl gtx handles (read plastic). Yes the plastic handles do feel cheap, so don't buy those knives, but don't judge a whole company on its lowest end knives.

Oh and if the trademark thing you're referring to is the spyderhole, spyderco has licensed its use to benchmade.

You sure don't sound like you've "been in the game for 30 years"...

Its really about time you either learn what you're talking about before you go running your mouth (as others have said, read more post less) or quit obviously trolling bm fans. Either way, you're not doing yourself any favors.
 
mkjellgren said:
once again, try one without plastic handles then. Only a very small percentage of bm knives have valox or noryl gtx handles (read plastic). Yes the plastic handles do feel cheap, so don't buy those knives, but don't judge a whole company on its lowest end knives.

Oh and if the trademark thing you're referring to is the spyderhole, spyderco has licensed its use to benchmade.

You sure don't sound like you've "been in the game for 30 years"...

Its really about time you either learn what you're talking about before you go running your mouth (as others have said, read more post less) or quit obviously trolling bm fans. Either way, you're not doing yourself any favors.
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+1 :thumbup:

These people seem to only by the lowest end blue class knives or red class, I own multiple BMs with other materials other than any form of plastic and they compete with some of the best. Try a Osbourne...you don't get much finer for a mid $100 to $200 knife.
 
perfectstorm said:
...if i was gonna spend the money i would stick to a better company someone who dosnt steal other companys trademark.
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So, not only did you buy a second and third knife from a company you feel makes cheap flimsy knives(with identical materials), you did so while having a problem with their business ethics? Odd.
 
This is a joke. You're a trolling kid, you don't even come close to coming off as even being out of your teens.
 
like ive said mulitple times i like all sorts of blades.ill try something several times ...buy...trade..sell..the point is bm handles and they way they grind the blade is shabby work.everone says try the osbourne..if i want a alum handle ill buy a protech.if i want g10 ill buy a spyderco. if i want plastic ill buy spyderco.if i want to piss away 200 bucks ill get a benchmade.....semper fi
 
perfectstorm said:
like ive said mulitple times i like all sorts of blades.ill try something several times ...buy...trade..sell..the point is bm handles and they way they grind the blade is shabby work.everone says try the osbourne..if i want a alum handle ill buy a protech.if i want g10 ill buy a spyderco. if i want plastic ill buy spyderco.if i want to piss away 200 bucks ill get a benchmade.....semper fi
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Troll some more bud...do you even own a knife? You have any experience with anything more than a butter knife?
 
One of the first knives I purchased was a Griptilian Tanto, while it is a solid knife and the Axis lock locked-up better than a similar lock in my SOG mini Vulcan, the handle felt very cheap. The Enlan EL04 I just picked up for $15.50 shipped, feels much better in hand than the grip did. I am not talking about the quality of the axis lock or the blade material, but the feel in hand is much better with the Enlan. So I have to say I agree with the less than impressive feel of the valox handled BM.

I have been thinking about purchasing another BM in hopes that I will be happier with the feel of the knife. If you get this far into my post can you give me a few suggestions of BM knives that represent their best qualities?
 
Nuke said:
I have been thinking about purchasing another BM in hopes that I will be happier with the feel of the knife. If you get this far into my post can you give me a few suggestions of BM knives that represent their best qualities?
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Try a 710.
 
Nuke said:
One of the first knives I purchased was a Griptilian Tanto, while it is a solid knife and the Axis lock locked-up better than a similar lock in my SOG mini Vulcan, the handle felt very cheap. The Enlan EL04 I just picked up for $15.50 shipped, feels much better in hand than the grip did. I am not talking about the quality of the axis lock or the blade material, but the feel in hand is much better with the Enlan. So I have to say I agree with the less than impressive feel of the valox handled BM.

I have been thinking about purchasing another BM in hopes that I will be happier with the feel of the knife. If you get this far into my post can you give me a few suggestions of BM knives that represent their best qualities?
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yeah i can give you some advice steer clear of bm.if you got the money look at a socom elite..par 2..sage..protech...selectfire...emerson....zt...houge...mcusta...strider....
 
Nuke said:
One of the first knives I purchased was a Griptilian Tanto, while it is a solid knife and the Axis lock locked-up better than a similar lock in my SOG mini Vulcan, the handle felt very cheap. The Enlan EL04 I just picked up for $15.50 shipped, feels much better in hand than the grip did. I am not talking about the quality of the axis lock or the blade material, but the feel in hand is much better with the Enlan. So I have to say I agree with the less than impressive feel of the valox handled BM.

I have been thinking about purchasing another BM in hopes that I will be happier with the feel of the knife. If you get this far into my post can you give me a few suggestions of BM knives that represent their best qualities?
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The 940 has a great reputation, as does the Adamas. I really like the 710, but funny enough the G10 on it felt funny. I think the scales are just really thin, but it was a great knife anyway. The Griptilians feel incredible with custom handles. There are a ton of others that are quite nice, like the 960/13960, which is discontinued, but is available for really, really cheap from a certain retailer. They only got blue ones left the PE though.
 
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