help me pick out a knife

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I want a blade that's about 4" long, sits on phosphor bronze washers, has a well established steel ground to be a superior cutter while retaining enough thickness to stand up to reasonable abuse, super light, with a comfortable handle made of G10, a solid, reliable liner lock and some kind of round hole or something cut out in the blade to flick the blade open as fast or slow as I want, and costs about $150. I also want the manufacturing to be run by a stand up person, someone that listens to his customer base without being a custom maker and charging custom maker prices, and bends over backwards to give his customers what they want and backs his products at every turn.

Anyone know where to find such a knife? I know that's a pretty tall order. Ideas?
 
MIlitary or BM 710 if you consider 4.5 oz lightweight and will consider production blades.
 
You want some wine with your cheese?

I like being provocative and sarcastic too so I'll go ahead and suggest a Mick Strider custom PT with the full cobalt damascus carved scales and SM-100 handground nightmare harpoon blade.

On a more serious note the Benchmade 650, if you can find one, is what fits your facetious specifications the best, other than the thumbhole (it has a thumbstud, but it's one of the best thumbstuds to ever go on a production blade in my opinion) and the G10 scales (it has aluminum scales). Good slicer despite having a very thick stock blade, the ATS34 is a pretty good steel, sub 4 ounces for a 4 inch blade, Benchmade customer service is amazing, I'd say even better than Spyderco. If anyone's CS department "bends over backwards" it's theirs.
 
asdf12345 said:
You want some wine with your cheese?

I like being provocative and sarcastic too so I'll go ahead and suggest a Mick Strider custom PT with the full cobalt damascus carved scales and SM-100 handground nightmare harpoon blade.

On a more serious note the Benchmade 650, if you can find one, is what fits your facetious specifications the best, other than the thumbhole (it has a thumbstud, but it's one of the best thumbstuds to ever go on a production blade in my opinion) and the G10 scales (it has aluminum scales). Good slicer despite having a very thick stock blade, the ATS34 is a pretty good steel, sub 4 ounces for a 4 inch blade, Benchmade customer service is amazing, I'd say even better than Spyderco. If anyone's CS department "bends over backwards" it's theirs.
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Sounds like a pretty cool knife. Don't know if it meets my cost restrictions though.
 
Sounds like a pretty cool knife. Don't know if it meets my cost restrictions though.
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You could probably find a used 650 around the $100-150 mark and have a new blade from Benchmade for $30. Well worth it.
 
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