did benchmade change their blade finish from satin to stonewash?

[JeremiahWeaver09]

i could swear i remember benchmade knives having really nice satin looking blades when they were 154cm, the newer s30v benchmades appear to have a very ugly stonewash finish now that looked all scratched up, did benchmade actually change their blade finish or did i just not notice the stonewash when i handled them a long time ago?

 

[mrfields]

i think it depends on the model of the knife. from recent production, my 495 came with a satin finish while my 575-1 has a stonewashed finish. both in s30v. & it’s not necessarily a new thing or just that particular biases steel. i own an auto rift while my son has the manual version, both in 154cm. the 9555 has a satin blade and the 950 is stonewashed. of course the blade shapes are somewhat different too, with the 950 blade being noticeably taller than the 9555

 

[Silent H]

I think all their blades spend time in the stonewash bin, some just spend longer than others in there. I remember seeing a factory tour video a few years ago, and they talked about a specific model's blade being in the stonewasher as they were filming. I had that model and I could have sworn it wasn't stonewashed, so I pulled it out, and upon closer inspection, it was very lightly stonewashed, although the grind lines were still far more prominent. I'm pretty sure it was a 154CM model, before they switched the majority of their lineup over to S30V.

 

[Benchmade]

Yeah it depends on the model. Some are polished after stonewash. Some of the older models are even blasted which are a matte finish.