My wife bought me one for x-mas last year & I love it! The "fidget factor" is nuts. I play with it constantly, opening & closing it 100 times a day sometimes. I just can't seem to help it...
Quick heads up: the thumb-stud on mine wasn't Loctited (is that a word?) & eventually worked loose. A Torx 5 bit and the blue Loctite fixed that. 10 minutes for it to set & I was back to playing with it.
Something else I noticed is that the part of the AXIS lock that we interact with gets really dirty. I don't know if it's the Versaflex or what, but I can have freshly washed & dried hands & just playing with it for a few minutes will get some kind of gunk in the divot of the bar where you place your thumb. A toothpick is all it takes to clean the crud out of it. The crud is gray like the Versaflex material. I'm white, Caucasian if I'm feeling politically correct, so I don't think it's minute skin particles...
Also, while playing with it, I heard a muted "click" sound & weird feel to the AXIS lock about a week ago. Turns out the Omega spring on the front/top side of the knife [the side with the Benchmade logo on blade] got halfway crippled. It didn't completely break but it is obvious that is where it will break soon, because there usually isn't that hard of a bend at the apex of the Omega spring's curve: it's supposed to be round like a tilted on it's side "C" not come almost to a point. Guess I have to send it to Benchmade for replacement. But it has stopped me from constantly playing with the knife anytime I have a free hand, something I'm sure my wife is silently happy about, especially when she is sleeping & I'm checking email or something & just pick it up to play with. I got skilled at opening it with my non-dominant left hand, though, something that transfers to opening all my knives now.
