Well, I guess that depends on what you consider custom. I've pretty much given up on "factory" knives, even the best thereof, such as Benchmade.
Although a good factory knife would most likely be good enough to do anything I would ask of it, I am now concentrating on better knives, and have a Busse, a Randall and a Chris Reeve Sebenza on order (having cancelled my Mad Dog order due to recent developments in McClung's customer service.)
What brought me to this mindset is my Chuck Ward lockback. Whenever I bought another factory knife after that, all I could think was "gosh, for what I paid for this knife I could make a deposit on a really good knife, one that I'd be proud of the rest of my life." I sure am glad that my first experience buying a custom knife was so positive.
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