BM 551 customized by Charles May

Wow... hope BM is paying attention. That's an elegant knife. Love my Cabella's Grippie in D2; BM really does that steel well.

 

Looks like a real slicer. Charles does some fine work

 

While promising. It loses big because
It either needs the Axis lock pulled and blade flicked to open it.
Or two handed opening.

 

? You don’t like axis lock?
What kind of lock do you prefer

 

I think he meant it needs a thumb stud

 

There is no thumb stud or Spydie hole for opening the blade.
So that leaves two options for deployment.

Pull the lock back and flick
or two hand slip joint style opening.

 

I wouldn’t call that a big loss, necessarily.

 

I like it. Too bad BM does not do any full flat ground blades.

 

I prefer 154CM, but I love the blade shape and grind. I like the absence of thumb studs and hole, but acknowledge that I would prefer a good one hand open option. The blade is beautiful.

 

That's a beauty of a blade. I like that nice clean line that flows along the top of the handle down to the drop point, but without the ramp up that's at the top of the factory blade there's probably no room on this blade for a thumb stud (or a Spydie hole). It's such a nice knife that I guess I wouldn't mind adjusting the lock so I could flick it open -- I can do that with most of my Benchmades already. Is this something he plans to offer normally through his site?

 

Beautiful blade.

Do you know the edge width at the shoulder and the edge angle?

 

Looks sweet !

FFG , D2 and clean looking .

 

Charlie makes a hell of a knife, and that blade looks great on the Grip. I don't mind the lack of an opening hole/thumbstud as I mostly flip my axis lock folders open anyway. Nice full flat grind and I bet it cuts better than the production blades.