There was some discussion amongst
Sharp & Fiery
,
Chronovore
, myself and others over at the Arno Bernard iMamba praise thread regarding the makers' choice of blade steel for that knife. My
most recent post there mentioned that I have numerous higher-end knives with supposedly "lesser" steels that I'm perfectly content with. I thought I might take a run through some of those steels, if not those very knives, over the next few days and, needing a work knife, I stayed in the Benchmade box and grabbed my TSEK in 440C. Though somewhat rare these days, this is not one of those "higher-end" knives I mentioned, but one I do like very much.
Like its companion AFCK, this one was designed by Chris Caracci as a folding military knife and shares the same handle and overall arched configuration but with a different, though somewhat similar, blade style and opening method. Like the 806 AFCK the 805 TSEK originally came as a liner lock (800 AFCK & 803 TSEK).
I bought this from a friend who is no longer active here, but is still very much so on Benchmade's own forum. He got it from someone who had thinned the blade but had never finished polishing and sanding it. My seller never did and , so far, neither have I. It's a work knife anyway....
BTW, this one came to me with one of the sharpest edges I've ever handled. IIRC I almost immediately cut myself fooling with it.
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