Just got an Apparition.....

rebeltf

rebeltf

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..yesterday while getting my truck smogged.
My thoughts were to buy a knife that was not my normal type of knife I would buy , after looking at several Benchmades I came to the conclusion that I did not think most of them were worth what the hardware store was selling them for. Great steel aside , they just were not "all that", IMO , but I liked the Apparition the best out of them all so I paid my dough and away I went.
The first thing I noticed is that the F&F was pretty sloppy , I expected more from a Benchmade, the fake horn scales are absolutly horrid and will be replaced with wood , probably Gaboon Ebony. ( why they did not go with G10 in the first place is beyond me , this plastic looks cheap as well as fake)

Most impressive was the AO , the knife opens with authority but I do wish the blade had a flipper on it , I am afraid I'm going to cut my thumb upon opening this knife one of these days using the thumbstud. I was also impressed with no blade play what so ever, the lockup however..... If this knife is designed to be tactical , why the skinny little lockbar with not much torsion ?? I have doubts that this lockbar will stay hard during use , something I will try to rectify before reassembly.

Right now it sitting on my cutting board in pieces waiting for some TLC , many parts with get a polish , I will post pics when I done with new scales and etc.
 
Me too. On Monday. They took out part of my prostate ...THROUGH ... the weenie! Aiyee!!!

Oh..... Appar-ISH-un.

Sorry.

:eek:
 
The 670 Apparition was one of my favorites, until AO fell out favor with me. Then I removed the torsion bar. And it was too loose. I think they should produce that model without AO at all, and should replace those plastic handles.
 
I'm really suprised some goody two shoe here in ther Republik has not got on the bandwagon to add AO's to the banned list of weapons us serfs cannot own.

THe guy at the hardware store told me that is thier biggest selling knife , once folks open that badboy up they want it , just like I did.

I was tempted on the Opportunist but I said "naww".

I got the scales cut out for the App , they are going to be Shedua with some mindblowing chatoyance. Now I need to drill my holes and so forth.
 
I too am unimpressed with the BM Apparition. The 670's scales look like junk. The liner is thin and chinsey. It does need a flipper if it is going to have AO. I also almost cut my thumb opening it. It feels flimsey with the AO torsion bar removed. It only has a thumbstud on one side.

Did I make it clear that I don't like the knife?
 
of all the benchmades ive handled, which includes most that have come out in the past 3-4 years the 670 seems the cheapest to me (aside from the red class) there is a g10 model (672 maybe) that came out and it is better then the 670
 
I have about 20 Benchmades and I am a big AO fan, so I bought an Apparition as soon as they came out.....I wanted to send it back ten minutes later.....very disappointed in it on all fronts.
 
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