Today I recieved my first benchmade from the mail which I had been eyeballing for the past few weeks. I purchased the 275 adamas tan folder, what influenced me in this decision is back about three years ago before I was on the forums I had a friend who has the same folder and before then I never heard of benchmade, chris reeve, zt, strider or any other high end production folder besides spyderco, and as soon as he showed me his knife I fell in love with it but I was afraid to spend that kind of money on a knife but im glad I took that step and bought the 275 and im happy with my purchase.