Is Benchmade 940-2 a good workhorse knife compared to Griptilian?

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darthwayne

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I like bigger belly of griptilian but i know living in city having a sleek knife is better..my friends already found grip to be a scary looking knife...this is what happens when u have a snowflake generation.

now i want to get 940-2, i like its design and reviews and really curious about G10 scales...but want to know it can keep up with daily slicing ? it can anything from onions to cardboard to maybe even puncturing open those tiny tuna cans.
 
...as far as 'puncturing tiny tuna cans' goes, there are better tools for that task. A knife is not one of them. Or go and get a Swiss Army knife which has an opener for cans as well as a working blade. Comparing a Grip to a 940-2 is a matter of personal choice. I like the Grip better myself, that would be my vote.
 
The 940 series are often considered to be light EDC knives. I disagree and feel that they can do anything a griptilian can do. They are great knives, sleek, you don't even feel them in your pocket. They are not a hard use folder per se, and the grip might be better around a worksite. However the 940 is an excellent knife for city living and will surprise you how useful it can be.
 
Lapedog said:
The 940 series are often considered to be light EDC knives. I disagree and feel that they can do anything a griptilian can do. They are great knives, sleek, you don't even feel them in your pocket. They are not a hard use folder per se, and the grip might be better around a worksite. However the 940 is an excellent knife for city living and will surprise you how useful it can be.
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i am living in city environment and might be moving to a desk job soon ..so i think griptilian might be slightly too beefy and scary to pull out in office...otherwise i like griptilian as an all rounder knife


I am thinking to get a bigger bushcraft knife for use in backyard or out of city environment
 
jkarp_53 said:
...as far as 'puncturing tiny tuna cans' goes, there are better tools for that task. A knife is not one of them. Or go and get a Swiss Army knife which has an opener for cans as well as a working blade. Comparing a Grip to a 940-2 is a matter of personal choice. I like the Grip better myself, that would be my vote.
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yes i know but i have used a knife for slicing open cans of food in emergency situations.....i dont like swiss army knives for EDC..they were good when i was a kid
 
Lapedog said:
The 940 series are often considered to be light EDC knives. I disagree and feel that they can do anything a griptilian can do. They are great knives, sleek, you don't even feel them in your pocket. They are not a hard use folder per se, and the grip might be better around a worksite. However the 940 is an excellent knife for city living and will surprise you how useful it can be.
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So you don t think a 940 can do anything a Griptilian can do? I agree. In my past experience the Griptilian is a surprisingly rugged work knife. The 940 doesn t feel that rugged.
 
darthwayne said:
i am living in city environment and might be moving to a desk job soon ..so i think griptilian might be slightly too beefy and scary to pull out in office...otherwise i like griptilian as an all rounder knife

A knife no bigger than a Griptilian is only as scary as its user thinks it is . If a knife is used as a routine everyday tool, others will not pay attention in my experience. Ignore the occasionl histrionic person who gets excited by a pocket knife.
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I prefer the 943 over the grip. However I can't carry a blade over 3inches so the Mini Grip wins!
 
The 940 is longer than the grip isn't it? It's hard to speculate on what the knife hating crowd will find intimidating. In some ways though isn't a longer thinner knife scarier? Like a stilletto. I don't know I can only guess what scares those intimidated by an innanimate object. I feel like people these days are scared of their fellow man.

I understand how office environments are. That's just the reality of todays world.
 
Any 940 is a great workhorse with a very strong tip and a slim/light EDC.

The 940 model is the best all-time practical EDC design out of Benchmade.

The 940-2 G-10 model with open construction actually costs less than the 940 aluminum with backspacer model and affords better grip.
 
I use my Grip pretty hard working construction. I also own a 940-2. I think the 940 could be just as good of a workhorse. It has a very strong tip. It is very slim, carries like a dream with a long usable blade. If you are in an office environment I think the 940 would be hard to beat. It is slim and you don't feel like you get quite as good of a grip on it compared to a griptilian, but unless you are really abusing it it's not going to be a problem at all


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Here's a pic of my mini grip to show what I mean about really hard using it, it has been a trooper the last couple of years. Been carrying a full size grip lately for something different


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Lapedog said:
The 940 is longer than the grip isn't it? It's hard to speculate on what the knife hating crowd will find intimidating. In some ways though isn't a longer thinner knife scarier? Like a stilletto. I don't know I can only guess what scares those intimidated by an innanimate object. I feel like people these days are scared of their fellow man.

I understand how office environments are. That's just the reality of todays world.
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they are nearly same length with 940 having slightly longer cutting edge.
i dont know how 940 will perform cutting through large sheets of cardboard because it has very short belly.
 
darthwayne said:
I like bigger belly of griptilian but i know living in city having a sleek knife is better..my friends already found grip to be a scary looking knife...this is what happens when u have a snowflake generation.

now i want to get 940-2, i like its design and reviews and really curious about G10 scales...but want to know it can keep up with daily slicing ? it can anything from onions to cardboard to maybe even puncturing open those tiny tuna cans.
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I thought that locking knives, especially one-handed openers are illegal in NYC. I wouldn't carry a longer blade than 3" in NY, and would look for one that does not lock. Also, I'd get a can opener for cans. Many Swiss Army knives have one built in. A multi-tool will also do the job, and won't be a legal problem.

Anywhere I have lived, anything with a blade larger than 3" would not be "office friendly."
 
The 940-2 is a work horse. I used one for quite a while and it did everything I needed it to do. Some call it a gentlemans knife. I don't see it as that at all. I see it as a very efficiently designed edc cutting tool.
 
I've owned both. I don't think a 940 is any weaker than a Grip. It has a .115" thick blade and an axis lock.
 
I like both for different reasons. The 940 is light, slim and beautiful. The Grip (Doug Ritter familiarity) is beefier and an all around work horse. I will carry the 940 on occasion when I need additional pocket space and choose the Grip for a specific task...not necessarily to carry.
 
Djulbert said:
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Here's a pic of my mini grip to show what I mean about really hard using it, it has been a trooper the last couple of years. Been carrying a full size grip lately for something different


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Geesh, ya might want to take that thing outta your pocket once in a while and use it. At least open up a bag of chips or something. Nice safe queen ya got there!

(I just said all that in a really sarcastic voice, btw!)
 
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