Got my first Benchmade today - 300SN

[celtic11]

I recently made a trade and acquired my first Benchmade knife. I have owned a Cold Steel knife and quite a few Kershaw and one ZT. I did some reading on this knife before it got to me and I would say I basically got what I expected. Its a quality knife that is very smooth and overall has good F&F. It doesn't make for the best flipper, but doesnt take much wrist to get it to open really nice either. My only real concerns at this point are the bulkiness and shortness of the handle. For some reason it just doesn't feel very comfortable in hand, but I'll give that some time and see. Overall I would say I am not sure if I will end up keeping this one, but it definitely made me feel like I would look at more Benchmades in the future.

Edit: edited to add pics, a couple with my ZT0566 for reference.

 

[Jastab]

http://s1308.photobucket.com/user/Jastab/library/300sn?sort=3&page=1

Check out my 300sn. I cut off the flipper and ground the finger groove down to fit in hand a lot better. I also did a lot more mods.