The official collection thread

OK, Ted, here's the first of two collections using a lot of the same knives. BM 710s and 705s were made to be together, with the handles of the smaller 705s made in the image of the larger 710s without the second sets of cross-scale flutes. The two models debuted around the same time, but the 705 was discontinued a couple years later in favor or the aptly-named 707 Sequel--a knife I personally don't favor as I'm not much into aluminum handles. From the top:

--710-1401, Knifeworks exclusive. Love the M390 blade and bright hardware on this one. Sculpted G10 scales are great in hand. Blue/black thing I liked when I got it, but I find it kinda meh as time goes on. Considering custom scales for this one, but spending more money on this baby is far down the list.
--705 Pre-Production combo edge--my first 705 which I was happy to find, but I'm not that much into serrations nor blades with a lot of verbiage on 'em. I kept looking as you can tell.
--stock 710 D2 blade--got this a couple weeks ago on the Exchange for a great price, pretty much LNIB. Just nice to have a stocker in great shape.
--stock 705 ATS 134 blade--bought from a friend from here and the Benchmade Forum. Nice clean one and the stocker I was looking for.
--710 D2--My first Benchmade. My "rescue knife" saved from an abusive owner with blade scratched, pitted, and discolored; full of gunk; poorly sharpened; backspacer hacked away inside in an attempt to keep the blade from hitting it. I've cleaned it up, properly sharpened, modded with Gnoleb standoffs, and put on a fresh Parkerized clip. A personal favorite and frequent companion.
--another 705 ATS 134 that I just picked up here this week for a super price. It's a user with some scratches on the re-sharpened blade, but scales are excellent and knife is functionally great. This one will be carried and be a sidekick for the 710 above it.

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Two not pictured are a black-bladed 705/710 pairing that I picked up on the secondary market and passed on to my son who lives in Brooklyn and is a theater tech/carpenter in Manhattan. Yeah, my family likes these knives.
 
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Here's the related installment for today. Aside from all the other sorts of knives I'm into, I really like old-school Benchmades. They have this clean, utilitarian aesthetic with their unadorned forms, practical G10, simple satin (or black-coated) hardware, modest-though-useful jimping, and longish-slender blade shapes. The 710s and 705s are described above, but a recent interest I've come to late are TSEKs and AFCKs. They were designed as tactical knives (Tactical Safety Equipment Knife and Advanced Folding Combat Knife) and share the same handle. I'm not a military guy and have never done nor do I anticipate ever doing any knife fighting, but I love the blade shapes and the long handles fit my beat-up old carpenter's mitts just great. I do like bigger knives.

The TSEK came from the same friend who sold me my second 705. The blade has been slightly reground and polished to make it a better slicer and the jimping modded by extending it through to the edges of the G10. It's complemented by the bright split-arrow clip and has a 440C blade that takes and has a wicked sharp edge. I use this as a general and sometime work carry.

The AFCK came in a private deal from a gentleman on the other coast who knew I was looking and contacted me. The previous owner had it for a long time with very little carry or use. It still has the factory edge and wasn't even really broken in when I got it. I've added a black oxide split-arrow clip compliments of BMK, tuned it up a bit, and this one and its TSEK brother are wicked smooth, fly open with little effort, and free-drop closed. As someone posted about another knife on my Bears' Den thread, these two are pretty much thumb guillotines. (Edit: after re-reading, I realized that one's thumb is not in play when closing an AXIS lock knife. I still like the description, though.) Love this pair and am looking for other and older versions of each. There's also a TSEK/AFCK thread on BF for those who are fans of these knives.

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Great pics Chazzy, I was into Benchmade in the beginning, I think my first 2 were the AFO and the AFCK, Figured I'd start with the As. :)

They say it's always 5 o'clock somewhere with one of these in your pocket you'll be ready no matter what you're drinkin' :)

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T. Erdelyi said:
Great pics Chazzy, I was into Benchmade in the beginning, I think my first 2 were the AFO and the AFCK, Figured I'd start with the As. :)

They say it's always 5 o'clock somewhere with one of these in your pocket you'll be ready no matter what you're drinkin' :)
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So you appropriately opened your BM collection with A's, Ted, and then show us your knives featuring openers. Really deep, subliminal pun, brother ;)
 
I'll have to pull my BMs together for a pic, it's a random collection of about 4 or 5 early BMs that I liked, last one I bought was a plain black 551 I took sandpaper to the scales to smooth it out, made it a lot easier on my pocket and still has plenty of traction. Speaking of openers, what's your feelings on Ring Openers?

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Custom reverse-edge knives with retention rings. No scales. Engraved.

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Top to bottom:

Ban Tang Pikal La Griffe.

A completely one-off piece by Dylan Farnham.

Max Venom PKM. Heavily modded on a waterjet.
 
Hey folks, thanks for posting what the knives/collections are I really appreciate it as well as the folks who don't know what every knife is. :) :thumbup:
 
W. Anderson said:
Custom reverse-edge knives with retention rings. No scales. Engraved.

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Top to bottom:

Ban Tang Pikal La Griffe.

A completely one-off piece by Dylan Farnham.

Max Venom PKM. Heavily modded on a waterjet.
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If you ever want to unload that Ban Tang I can promise you it would go quick[emoji2]. I love the pikal style and am a big fan of Mr. Perrin's style.
 
STAINLESS90 said:
If you ever want to unload that Ban Tang I can promise you it would go quick[emoji2]. I love the pikal style and am a big fan of Mr. Perrin's style.
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That one actually belongs to my wife. She's carried it every day since she'd gotten in in 2012.
 
My custom Skylines! From left to right:
Blue G10 "hand filling" scales by Phillip Dobson over acid blasted blade, clip and liner
Metal Putman scales with stonewashed blade
Amber Juma scales by Sketchen with Damascus blade
Flytanium with S30V CKT blade
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The Skyline was one of those Kershaws I'd always wanted to try out, probably a good thing I didn't with all the sprint and SFO runs and all of options I'd go broke tryin' to get 'em all. ;)
 
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Now how is that a collection that meets the op requirements, there has to be at least 3 or more items with a common read and all of them being knives doesn't count. Although they are some knice knives to say the least also they have nothing in common, thank you for playing though. By all means try again, common scale material, common blade shape, all pruners for example or all the same brand like all Case or all Sebenzas like Lone Wolf has. :)

Like I said try again, I'm sure you've got more than just a collection of pocket knives, even a set of steak knives if they're all the same would qualify. :)
 
Here's another example 3 four Congress knives, (I have to admit I no longer have this collection, I gave one of them to a friend. I'll have to check out Rough Rider's version :))

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