Is the Benchmade Anthem really integral?

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Devin Helgeson

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Hey guys. I recently got the Benchmade Anthem and I've been loving it. The steel is better than my s90v knives and it's really quite the piece with this titanium, however I looked down in the scales and noticed something.

From an integral piece I would expect there to be no indication of 2 pieces put together, however that's what I'm seeing. If you look closely, you can see a line run all the way down inside of the knife. This line doesn't exist on the outside, but on the inside it looks as if there were once 2 titanium scales that we're put together in some way.

From a $500 knife idI be really surprised. What I think might be happening, dare I say is likely happening, is Benchmade f***ed up. We all know that happens. But what mistake had been made here?

Thanks for any insights guys! Really zoom in on that picture!
 
I'd like to say it's probably just a byproduct of the production process but in this day and age anything is believable.
 
Machining and sticking two pieces together wouldn't really make sense from a manufacturing standpoint. I don't think it would save them any time or machine hours (money). If it was two pieces that they partially machined and stuck together, they would still need to put it back into a fixture and do additional machining to bring it to final dimension. I'll admit that the line down the inside middle is odd since the tooling wouldn't leave a line like that. End mill bits rotate, they are perfectly flat and they would likely use a bit that was the correct width to make single passes until hitting the correct depth. But who knows, maybe they had to use a bit that was 50% of the width, which would leave a center line.
 
There are some machinists who frequent the forum, I'm sure they'll chime in and tell you it's perfectly fine. I absolutely can't imagine BM misrepresenting that issue.

I just like looking at that spring.
 
Looks like a remnant of a tool passing through. It doesn't look centered along the handle (like you would get with two halves), but rather like a cutting tool made two passes through the handle
 
Can't see clearly. Better pics would be helpful.
 
I agree with halden. Looks like a mark left over from the machining process they used to scoop out that part of the Ti handle.
 
That is a milling mark left from what was likely the final tooling pass. I doubt they spent much time cleaning up the marks on inside....those type of details is what sets apart the truly great custom integrals from the production ones.
 
Looks to me like they used a slotting cutter, holding the knife handle horizontally. A staggered tooth cutter like this could leave a line down the middle, and those horizontal lines that you see too.
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Devin Helgeson said:
mKiG8SO
Hey guys. I recently got the Benchmade Anthem and I've been loving it. The steel is better than my s90v knives and it's really quite the piece with this titanium, however I looked down in the scales and noticed something.

From an integral piece I would expect there to be no indication of 2 pieces put together, however that's what I'm seeing. If you look closely, you can see a line run all the way down inside of the knife. This line doesn't exist on the outside, but on the inside it looks as if there were once 2 titanium scales that we're put together in some way.

From a $500 knife idI be really surprised. What I think might be happening, dare I say is likely happening, is Benchmade f***ed up. We all know that happens. But what mistake had been made here?

Thanks for any insights guys! Really zoom in on that picture!
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I'm not seeing a f*ck up, and yes it is really an integral.
 
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