Help Identifying Benchmade Description

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I was talking to a knife guy at a local bike shop and he was describing a new Benchmade that his buddy was carrying around earlier this year...

He said it was an acronym of some sort for the name (I was thinking 'AFCK' or 'AFO') and he said it had a blood groove on it. He also said he thought it might have been an auto.

I've looked up the AFO and the AFCK and neither seems to have a blood groove though the AFO is auto. Any ideas? Or was he maybe mistaken in his description?

TIA for any info!

Shawn

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They can't see inside of me... It's sickening
how comforting the privacy of the mind can be..."

-Eve6 ('How Much Longer')
 
maybe he mistook the spydie-hole as some sort of bloodgroove?
besides that I don't seem to be able to think up of any benchmade knives with acronyms...
besides the CQC-7, AFCK....

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Hmmmmmmm......

No clue here, either.

I also went thru my latest catalog, and none of the new offerings show anything.

Mike
 
Hmmm... He must have either seen somethin that wasn't a bloodgroove or perhaps it wasn't a BM but a knockoff and he didn't know it. Thanks guys... I was coming up with the same conclucions. ???

Shawn
 
Hey Shawn. He probably was calling something else a bloodgroove. It seems to be very easy for non knife folks to get confused....

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Brian
The first knife was probably used to cut stuff.
 
I have a terrible memory for such things, which is truly frustrating. I thought I remembered that Microtech had an OTF auto with a groove up the center. Went to their site: http://www.microtechknives.com/
and there is a picture of what I thought I remembered. But it isn't any of the auto folders, and the HALO is there. What is that knife?

Just seemed to me that the guy might have been confused as to the company name, rather than the specifics of the knife.


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Bugs
 
A couple of days ago, I was showing someone my BM 730. I pushed lightly on the thumbstud and the blade flew open, and he almost shrieked "That's a switchblade! That's a Navy SEAL knife!"

It's hard for non-knife people to tell autos from the latest fast opening one-handers. After all, effectively, there isn't much difference. If anything, the opening hole or stud gets the job done more reliably than a spring, which is more likely to break.

And I'll bet he was was calling the Spydie hole a blood groove, too.
 
Bugs,
I think that is the Nemesis which is out of production I believe. It may be another knife which came before the Nemesis (? CFO) but I cannot remember the name. Definitely one wicked looking blade but I wonder if the blood groove is that or just something for the retention pin to ride in after deployment as it is lined up perfectly with the stop. Great knife!

Esav,
I think you guys may be right about him mistaking the spyderhole for a blood groove. I'm going to get a pic of te AFCK and take it to him to find out.

Thanks everyone for the input!

Shawn
 
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