Endura vs. Griptillian you preference?

Endura vs. Griptillian

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its a matter of personal preference. if someone was going to offer one to me free id take the BM and probubly sell it and get a SC, lol. the axis lock is nice, i like it. i like the lock back on sc too. both have abidexterous locks. i wouldnt be crazy enough to baton a benchmade so strength comparisons on this vs back locks are moot. if i got a benchmade it would have to have the spyder hole or a flipper. hate the studs, once u go hole you dont go back.
 
I prefer the Griptilian, heres why.
154CM is my favorite steel
Handles feel better in my hand
The blade seems thicker

I can safely say the Griptilian is top 3 of the knives I own.
Not taking anything away from the Endura though, it is a heck of a blade and can take anything you can dish out.
 
I have owned several Spydercos and never really liked the feel of them. I have however recently started carrying my 550 HG Griptilian along with my M4 hunter I made. Love the hand feel of the Griptilian.
 
I have large and small Grips and Delicas and Enduras. In both cases, I prefer the smaller knife for EDC (Delica & Mini Grip). I carried a Delica for over 10 years as my EDC, but pretty much never looked back after I got my first Mini Grip. Great ergos, blade/handle ratio, looks cool and the Axis lock is so quick and easy to use and put away that it has spoiled me for anything else.

From reading this, the ergos are a personal matter- as much as I like the thinness, lightness, slicing ability and extra length, I just can't love my flat ground Endura- the handle feels too thin for doing much real work with (hot spots!) and the balance doesn't feel right to me. I don't care much for the "clack" of the full-size Grip- but I put up with it for my matching numbered Ritters in M4. If you really need the full-size (and can afford it) I highly recommend the Gold Class Grip with CF handles (no clack) and M4 (yes, I know Spyderco does their M4 harder). It feels great in the hand. looks cool, and works really well.
 
Did Carry an Endura for almost two years and really liked it. Until I got my first Grip.. Have now used a 550 as work edc and an 555 mini as afterwork edc for close to a year and really really like them. Both the Grips and Endura are great knives I just feel the grip fits better in my hand
 
I think the Griptilian is a great knife, but it's just not my style. Gimme' the Endura. ;):thumbup: ...or the Benchmade 530. :p
 
I have to say the doug ritter griptilian is my favorite knife of all time... i will never go without it...
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never owned or handled a griptillian but ive been carrying a waved Endura 4 for over a year now and i love it. vg-10 steel, thin knife, nice and light. one of my favorite EDC
 
Tough choice. Like folks have said, they are both great knives. I lke the Endura better when I am carrying a knife clipped inside my back pocket and the Grip better when I am carrying the knife clipped in my front pocket.
 
Endura for me. I do love the minigrip though, I carried one for a good while. I do feel that if Benchmade actuall updated the handle to something along the lines of a Wilkins handle, it would be an even more amazing knife.
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Never owned an Endura but carried a Delica for years. I also carried a Griptillian for a year straight.

Hated the Griptillian. It's much thicker in the handle so it doesn't ride as nice in the pocket and also ripped up pockets quicker due to the handle texture. The handle is light and cheap feeling so it didn't balance as well. It's a quality knife for sure but didn't have the same "feel" to me that the Delica has.

I'm also one of those rare people who doesn't care for the axis lock in function or design theory and much prefer a liner or back lock.
 
The Endura was my first folder with a pocket clip. I carried one for 5+ years before I found the Delica, then the mini-Grip. EDC is a mini Ritter Grip now. I'll probably wind up putting cuscadi scales on it to flatten it out for pocket carry, but it does a fine job for now as-is.
 
Endura; I've seen two different Grip's omega springs break after only about a year of EDC. Haven't heard of a Spyderco back-lock spring failing.

-sh00ter
 
Gotta go with the grip here. The handle on the endura is just too skinny to be comfortable for me.

Love my Ritter grip...although it's after my para 2! ;)
 
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