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I know we have a section for test and review but this is really just a guys impression after some steady use. My brother inlaw and I went camping earlier this week getting ready for the cooler weather to come and enjoy some outdoors. I recently picked up a Benchmade 484 here on the forum and have been eager to try some M390, my brother inlaw has a Benchmade mini-grip with 154CM, both knives are sharpened by me on my Wicked Edge and ready for use. The plan was to do all food prep, camp chores with these two knives as long as possible, but we did have other fixed blades if need be. We made 1 fishing pole a six foot small sapling, cut and cleaned, next I cleaned 1 snake for a midnight snack which included cutting through the spine 12-15 times making small steaks to make shish-kabobs, 2 small sticks for skewers, lots of various cord to secure the tents, and finally 2 hours straight of whittling on scrap wood by moonlight just to relax.
The next day I checked both knives side by side and both where noticeably less sharp but still sharp enough for basic cutting use but not capable of skinning or cleaning, also surprisingly the 154cm held up very well and only seemed a little more dull than my M390, now I also did all the spine cuts with mine and whittled quite consistently to see the ability of the M390. Another good point is that both blades seemed to wear quite evenly end to end, no dents or chips obviously ( thats why we buy BENCHMADE) and I was able to quickly touch up both blades, thats a super important fact for guys who do their own sharpening, 154CM has always been a solid performer, but the M390 easily returns to a laser sharp edge with about the same effort, I have a 940-1 with S90V and is much more work to get that same edge. I know this was far from scientific but I think its good example of what the knives are capable of and an example of really using your knives. M390 ROCKS, and 154CM too.
Someone else, its your turn!
Thanks Chris
The next day I checked both knives side by side and both where noticeably less sharp but still sharp enough for basic cutting use but not capable of skinning or cleaning, also surprisingly the 154cm held up very well and only seemed a little more dull than my M390, now I also did all the spine cuts with mine and whittled quite consistently to see the ability of the M390. Another good point is that both blades seemed to wear quite evenly end to end, no dents or chips obviously ( thats why we buy BENCHMADE) and I was able to quickly touch up both blades, thats a super important fact for guys who do their own sharpening, 154CM has always been a solid performer, but the M390 easily returns to a laser sharp edge with about the same effort, I have a 940-1 with S90V and is much more work to get that same edge. I know this was far from scientific but I think its good example of what the knives are capable of and an example of really using your knives. M390 ROCKS, and 154CM too.
Someone else, its your turn!
Thanks Chris
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