New Ultralight! The 537 Bailout

[BMCGear]

Lightweight
3V in a flimsy folding knife
Aluminum pommel
Tanto blade
Cerakote (still???)

What exactly is the intended use of this knife?

Here's my interpretation of the mindset when creating this knife:

"3V was received super well with the Puukko, so let's ride those coattails, even though it's totally wrong for the application. It needs a pommel, but this is supposed to be a lightweight knife, so use aluminum...even though it's the cheap metallic equivalent of Brie cheese. Tanto to match the name, even though the theory of use behind a Tanto blade is wasted on a small folder whose handles can be squeezed together by a hand of average strength. Cerakote because 3V can but probably won't rust, even though it shows wear like crazy and is a crappy grabby material for coating knife blades."

For this knife to work, they should have made this a full-tang fixed blade of the same size, with the pommel as an extension of the tang (like the Infidel fixed blade), and DLC coating. G10 grips would be nice, but Micarta would be nicer.

Like halden.doerge I'm excited to see 3v but I agree with you on all of the above.

 

[Filthyj24]

Also from the video:


*Police officer approaches vehicle, brandishes small pocket knife incapable of breaking window*

Who makes these videos lmaoooo

Apparently I've been doing car stops all wrong.

 

[steelcitysixteen]

I hope Bugout platform gets 3V also. Benchmade really needs to start putting a DLC coating on their blades, competitors have been using it for years.

This is so disappointing! I love this knife, the Tanto, 3V.... but they coated the blade. At least go DLC if you insist on coating it.

This. If they did a Bugout in 3V with the option of stonewash or a true DLC coating like Spydercos, they would sell these by the truckload.

 

[lovescamaros]

I agree that tough 3V is an odd choice for an ultralight folding knife. I have three knives in 3V all of which are fixed blades for bushcraft-type tasks and chopping.

well, a lot of people have complained about s30v so 3v might be a nice change for them.

 

[cbrstar]

I don't understand the design logic. To me IMHO I can't help but feel removing the liners isn't so much about saving weight but saving money. But then they add a pommel, but they don't want to admit that removing the liners was actually not about saving weight. So they make the pommel out of cheap aluminum rendering it useless. It's just there for show!