The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I am sure Benchmade is thrilled you are avoiding them........and I don't blame them.
Any company making clones.
CRKT......horrible builds of great designs.
Quarterwhatever.....lying thieves.
Boker.....see CRKT above.
Joe
Benchmade. Worst customer service and warranty process I ever went through. Since then it has become a brand I avoid.
I have taken interest in cold steel lately. At least I know what to expect.
I doubt benchmade is happy. They are part of the website and I will never speak good of them again. People will read these posts and old threads. Benchmade will lose more then me when people reconsider a knife purchase.
If you're a cop or military their customer service will bend over backwards for you. I highly recommend spyderco knives over them. Sal is the best customer service.
You mean this experience: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-with-benchmade-warranty-and-customer-service
You ran a con on Benchmade. You didn't like the offer they gave you for your Father's (not yours) 31 year knife. You expected a $50 knife be replaced with a >$250 knife. After they wouldn't do it you threatened them by saying you would start a nasty thread about them here, which you did in their subforum. Then, when everyone pointed out how wrong you were on multiple levels you got pissed and started lashing out at people. Then it all turn out you got your dad's knife fixed and a gift certificate yet you still went around talking junk about BM. Once again the community called you on this BS and you left BFC for a nice while.
Nice reason to dislike BM![]()
I can't believe we made it this far without anyone bringing up Mantis.
Strider - due to Mick Strider being a worthless sack of dishonorable crap (with bonus lock rock, terrible CS communication and timeliness, etc.)
Microtech - maker of the ZT 0777, er, Matrix (idiotic triangle screws for bonus points)
Brous - design thief extraordinaire
MKT - makes silly sharpened bricks that are supposed to be ultra-tough, then warns that if you maintain them in any way--including using a lubricant--they will self-destruct (bonus: Greg Medford probably has an IQ lower than the temperature of the room you're sitting in right now)
Quartermaster/QuarterMantis/QTRMTR - Lies about the provenance of their knives, their factory, their security, having a museum--scratch that, lies about everything (bonus: steals designs)
Read the thread. A lot of people were on my side. Hence why benchmade gave a gift certificate. Which I told them that is not their warranty. Their warranty states they will "repair" or "replace the knife. They didn't do either. They stated the knife was $50 new when it came out in 1985 so they gave me a $75 dollar benchmade gift certificate.
Just because you don't agree with me others did.
It was a wakeup call for people who have old discontinued models. They might not get repaired.
Benchmade also kept my knife. Other members on here got a gift certificate issued and got to keep their broken knife. Not me.
I also don't know what you're talking about Sal and spyderco. Me and my dad have bought plenty of their knives with no issues. Benchmade was the only knife I ever sent in for warranty.
I brought up spyderco because Sal takes care of his clients and is actively participate with his fans.
People even said in that thread benchmade hurt their reputation the way they handled it.
Oh, got any links about the Brous thing? Haven't heard of it and I like/own several of knives but I won't keep buying them if that's true.
If you search you can find multiple threads. Brous thieved designs from multiple designers, IIRC, in particular those of Jakub Wieczorkiewicz's Polish knife company, Poltergeist works (the Division, for example, is clearly a copy of the Jakub's Haunter). Here is one of the threads on that one for you.
Here is Brous's Division below with Jakub's much earlier Haunter fixed blade above:
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As I recall, there was word that they worked the issue out somehow after Brous was called out for it, but I could be remembering incorrectly.
Thanks. On Another Forum this was brought up and the consensus was that the design was paid for, whether after being called out or not I don't know, and the Polish maker did give his permissions (but again I don't know if it was before or later). Guess I'll have to do some more reading.
And I did search but all the combinations of keywords I tried found me no threads about any controversy. I am however bad at the internet so that should be no surprise I guess.
I doubt benchmade is happy. They are part of the website and I will never speak good of them again. People will read these posts and old threads. Benchmade will lose more then me when people reconsider a knife purchase.
If you're a cop or military their customer service will bend over backwards for you. I highly recommend spyderco knives over them. Sal is the best customer service.