Benchmade may have better quality fit and finish if you don't actually USE the knife, but I've bought many BMs over the years and the one thing I've become convinced of is that they do NOT know how to temper ATS-34.
Nice knives, but not worth a damn if they won't take a good edge.
As to EKI knives? Scary sharp with very little effort, I have no quality complaints at all, excellent customer service, and they're TOUGH damned knives.
E-U, uh, gee, I didn't realize I was a "weekend warrior" until I read your post, thanks for the heads up!
Fact is, I can do things with the waved blade you'll never be able to pull off reliably with the iffy technique you describe.
See this thread;
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/001427.html
Runs With Scissors
Not throwing any stones at you, but I keep hearing people say they got a crappy Emerson knife, that for the HUGE money they spent it should have been right blah blah blah...
And then they all say, "But it wasn't worth the hassle to send it back so they could make it right."
There are two ways to look at that.
Either,
A. There is no such crappy knife, and someone's out to damage the rep of a GREAT knife maker just because they can.
or;
B. They really DID get a bad knife and since they don't care about the piddlin' 150 bucks or so, they can't be bothered to complain about it or send it back for repairs, and EKI has no way of knowing there is a QC problem.
Either way, I've come to be very suspicious when someone says it's too much hassle to send an expensive (150+ dollars) knife back for FREE work to make it right.
The wave is the FASTEST deployment method out there. Hype? My MT HALOIII is a great knife, but it collects dust in the safe now. It's just too slow.
Bottom line?
Quit listening to "Un-Documented Complainers"
Buy one.
You'll see.
(Then come back and tell us how much you love it. We won't laugh, I promise.)
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Tráceme no sin la razón, envoltura mi no sin honor
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