CS 4-Max - BM Adamas ???

KingMC said:
I've owned and carried more than a few Benchmades, including the Adamas for over a year, and I have yet to have an Omega spring break. I have a difficult time seeing how a person can swear off the best lock design around simply because of a tiny chance that a part of it could break.

More on-topic, the Adamas was one of the best folding knives I've carried, the only issue I had with it was that it was too overbuilt for the tasks I was using it for; the blade was a little thick to be cutting cardboard with, but that wasn't a problem with the knife. If I needed a folder that I'd trust to replace a fixed blade, I wouldn't hesitate to buy an Adamas again; I'd put it up against a Becker BK16 anyday and it would certainly hold its own.
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Agree totally. Thanks to my hoarding nature, I still have my Adamas and it is an excellent knife, one of my absolute favourites.

You’ve summed it up nicely, so can only echo your analysis of its purpose. Yes, it can cut up cardboard, not the best at it, but if that’s all one is doing then the Adamas wouldn’t be my first choice. Outdoors stuff, on the other hand, or to stick in one these ‘BOB’s, which I hear so much about, it is a perfect knife.

And one hundred times ‘yes’ to the Axis lock. I guess there are some people with very bad luck, or a few of us have very good luck, or... ;)

It’s a great lock, and I have yet to break a spring. Benchmade are very, very helpful to customers like me, who live outside the USA, and for whom it is very costly to take advantage of their excellent warranty.

A couple of my seven Benchmares have slightly off centre blades. Guess what? I don’t care! They work really well as, well, knives. I know, I don’t just flick them open and shut and admire their perfect F&F. It’s like an illness with me. :)

Now then, I’m officially a blasphemer. You can all start throwing rocks now. :D
 
Gray 3-Max.
It's a beast.
I still have an Adamas and do like it much - I just always wonder about those Omega springs.
 
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