This is a real benchmade 910?

[khtima]

Friends, I bought this knife. But I can not understand real or not. If it is real, what steel some of his edge?

 

[marcinek]

By the look of that odd font of the etch alone....I'm going to say "No...it is not real." It's got that "Chinese" look to it.

Was the price "Too good to be true"?

 

[spyderco lover2]

if you look closely at the butterfly there are not enough letters to spell benchmade

 

[Phyx]

if you look closely at the butterfly there are not enough letters to spell benchmade

Well that would be because inside Benchmade's actual butterfly, it says "Bali-Song"

 

[s.c.]

if you look closely at the butterfly there are not enough letters to spell benchmade

The older ones say "balisong" instead of benchmade.

 

[PropThePolecat]

It looks like a real one in my opinion. The lettering on the blade are placed like the real deal, with the butterfly on the flat part, and "Benchmade USA" on the ground part of the blade.

The clip also looks like genuine Bencmade, albeit its the old model.

If it truly is a genuine Benchmade, then its probably in ATS-34 steel.

 

[khtima]

By the look of that odd font of the etch alone....I'm going to say "No...it is not real." It's got that "Chinese" look to it.

Was the price "Too good to be true"?

I gave him $ 150. As you can see exactly what a fake or not?

I will try to do more photo

 

[cali]

Wow, original Stryker in great condition, lucky you, congrats!
Everything looks legit for me.

 

[khtima]

I made other photos. See the first message.

 

[s.c.]

The only issue I see is that the box doesn't match the knife. 910sbt=serrated with black coating, I believe.

 

[marcinek]

Well....I've been wrong before!

Only once though.

 

[khtima]

Brethren, what shall I do? Happy? Upset? )(

 

[SpydercoLover]

All i know is I've seen some pretty good fake Benchmade 32's from China. So anything is possible

 

[marcinek]

Do the early Strykers have "ELISHEWITZ" stencilled on the blade?

 

[PropThePolecat]

Brethren, what shall I do? Happy? Upset? )(

I think you should be happy. Im no BM expert, but it looks genuine to me

Do the early Strykers have "ELISHEWITZ" stencilled on the blade?

Yes, ive seen some with that marking, but im not sure when they discontinued it.

 

[khtima]

I think you should be happy. Im no BM expert, but it looks genuine to me

Thank you brother!

 

[marcinek]

Brethren, what shall I do? Happy? Upset? )(

I'm going to go with what PropThePolecat says....sounds like you found a real one! Congratulations and enjoy!

 

[Shawn B.]

That is a real 910, but the box is the for a 910 with a serrated black blade.

 

[brownshoe]

Old ones have ELISHEWITZ on the blade, plus IIRC ATS-34. Again, IIRC, the ATS-34 went off and then the ELISHEWITZ. In addition, if you send in a knife for repair, they will replace the blade, but it often does not match exactly the logos on the original, and may not be coated. So this could be an old handle and box with a newer blade. IMHO, for this knife, it would be hard to reproduce the unusual grind on the blade and the top view shows it's authentic.

 

[J_Roc]

Early model, wrong box, but looks legit...