BM 551 Uneven Transition Primary Grind

[Zenturio]

Hi together, have you ever experienced that (with a Benchmade) from a highly known production knife?

Would it bother you?

There is a wobble where the 2 primary grinds meet right underneath the Benchmade Logo (blade might have moved while shaped out of the blank while milling/shape grinding).

The knife ist definitely legit with 2025 production date.

I know it is a pure optical issue, but anyways...

To be fair: I have owned at least 10 Griptilians over the past 10 years and never experienced something like that.

It is my favorite knife of all time and I like Benchmade a lot.


Thanks in advance and BR,
Oliver

 

[The True North]

I would find this unacceptable and procure a replacement. For what BM is charging these days, even for these basic models, I expect something much closer to manufacturing perfection than this.

 

[Weiss]

If I didn't like it, I'd send it back for a proper replacement. If I could live with it, I wouldn't. Benchmade wants $175.00 for plastic and what is, nowadays, a good but "unexciting" steel in the world of competitor steels; I'm never going to buy one, but not because I don't think it's a good knife -- it is -- but because it simply costs way more than I'm willing to spend.

That said, yep, that would bother me.

 

[katguy]

IMPO, Benchmade charge too much money for knives. So, they should be perfect.

However, most every knife I have has similar issues. Thicker/thinner in some spots, uneven grinds, imperfect tips, etc. Even robotically ground Mora's (that look perfectly flat) will have high and low spots in the scandi grind that you can't see until you sharpen it on a perfectly flat diamond plate.

If I was not happy with the knife, I would return it.

My 2 cents.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Grippies are great, tough knives, albeit lately (in Canada) they are way, way overpriced ($225 Loonies for a 551 in S30V at my favorite bricks & mortar outlet). I'd just sharpen it out and use it. FWIW, the factory edge of my 551 in CM-154 was so obtuse I honed it to a convex grind which cut much better.