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Knives you know are not that practical but you love them anyway
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ChazzyP
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Here are three Benchmades that were on my list for quite a while that I acquired one-by-one, though two of them came in separate deals very close together. I have this thing for vintage or old-school BMKs and these go back 18 years or so. These are the DarkStar, Mini-DarkStar, and Mini-BlueStar--the last one was designated August 2000 Knife of the Month, though by whom I have no idea.
These have flimsy liner-locks and are tip-down carry only. They also have sort of silly dagger-style blades with false edges at the forward spine, leaving the primary grinds way less than optimally acute. They're not great cutters, but their ATS blades take wicked keen edges--all the more reason to be wary of their less-than-robust locks.
Still, there's something I find attractive in their anodized liners showing through the cut-outs in the G10 scales and will stick one of the DarkStars in my pocket every once in a while. I still keep and eye out and would grab up a full-size, plain-edge BlueStar if I found one at a reasonable price.
These have flimsy liner-locks and are tip-down carry only. They also have sort of silly dagger-style blades with false edges at the forward spine, leaving the primary grinds way less than optimally acute. They're not great cutters, but their ATS blades take wicked keen edges--all the more reason to be wary of their less-than-robust locks.
Still, there's something I find attractive in their anodized liners showing through the cut-outs in the G10 scales and will stick one of the DarkStars in my pocket every once in a while. I still keep and eye out and would grab up a full-size, plain-edge BlueStar if I found one at a reasonable price.