BM 975. Anyone really use one?

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I just got on off the exchange. It's in new condition. Is this knife tough? Can I use it hard? I need a knife for utility and patrol backup. I'm a lefty, so the chisle grind is on the right side for utility use. Any one have experience wit this knife. Or should I shelve it since BM doesn't make it anymore?
 
Hard choice. I like the knife, even the way it looks, and carried a plain blade 975 for a little over a year. I never stressed it too hard. but it didn't seem fragile either. I did stop carrying it because BM doesn't make it any more, and replaced it with a BM Stryker. Both were backups for a fixed blade* of course! :-)

- Thomas

(* I carry a fixed blade on my tool belt, either a old CS Tanto of one style or another, or most often a older Spyderco Bill Moran Lightweight.)
 
Hey USAFSP where are you stationed? And whats up with the SP. Are you old school or what?
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Anyway I have 975 but I dont carry it too often I have found others that are better carry knives for when I am on patrol. Be careful how you carry it at my last yard (NELLIS) they had a fit any time I carried a knife that could doulble as a weapon (DUH).

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SSgt Christopher Wardlow
USAF Security Forces
425th ABS Izmir Turkey
 
The BM 975 is a great weapon. The blade is 3.9", longer than the current emerson version. You better snatch it up because the BM versions are hard to find now.
 
I like to use my CS Vaquero Grande in the woods, to hack through thorns and vines in my way. But If I'm not going out for the day with all my equipment, I do daily-carry the 975 anyway and I find it works just as well. It has really taken a beating as a chopper and slicer, but doesn't show it in the edge or the action, and now that I tuf-cloth it, doesn't even stain.

They made a regular size, but I got the long knife with the black coating.
 
My current everyday carry is Sifu for these few months, but it was BM975 for about three years. Quite sturdy, tough, and extremely easy to sharpen by freehand on a flat stone.
I bought the 975 in summer, the first day I carried it all the day my pocket got very sweaty, the blade was slightly coloured brown in a day! So I disassembled it to mirror polish it. It worked, but at the cost of total loss of its collective value. From then the knife served me as a user. Only regret is that the knife was blamed (by mistake) to be a Taiwanese spinoff by friends as the butterfly mark was also polished off...

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The edges on the Benchmade CQCs were well known for chipping if you used them on hard materials like cutting thick wire. The edges are ground quite fine. The knife is quite strong though in general, but the geometrical blade profile is, well...a fad that has seen it's day come and go. Save the 975 and buy yourself a 750 Pinnacle if you want a really sturdy folder.
 
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