Nope...still looks like a strange agenda against Benchmade.
Hands-on experience that came from a "found in parking lot" Benchmade at an unknown time in the past that was later given away to a buddy. It failed in your hand due to serrations with no memory of the action or ergonomics.
I'm convinced.
No. Wait. I'm not. How do you even know you ever handled a Benchmade?
It's not my job to convince you if anything. You can choose to play along or not. You can choose to go with it and assume I'm telling the truth or not. However you're 100% correct, I cannot possibly know if the knife I found on the ground was real or not. I cannot and will not deny that fact.
I can only say that knife didn't impress me in any way. And since it wore the branding I assumed it to be so. Maybe that's my mistake. Maybe it's spot on.
I've declared many times already in here that I'm completely new to this. I'm just starting to discover and identify what it is I like in a knife and what it is that I don't. I can only surmise now, in retrospect, what I may not have liked about that supposed Benchmade some years ago.
I get that you might not like the scenario, and that's totally fine and understandable, but that doesn't render your opinion any more valid or invalid than mine.
I haven't read anything bad about Benchmade, and everyone I know (because I live in Oregon) has a Griptillian and/or some other Benchmade, and boasts on about them, without any real reasoning as to it. So I come to places like this to try and get an understanding. To try and adapt others' experiences into a relatable idea of what it might be like for me.
It's all a balancing of the scales and based on personal taste and opinion. The only true facts in this are the measurable dimensions of the products themselves.
There's nothing I can say that will suddenly make someone else go, "oh wow, because he simply states that he doesn't like them I probably shouldn't like them either." So I don't get what the reaction is all about. It's harmless opinion based on taste.
If anything I would think you'd see that I'm here trying to understand. Trying to find a reason to change my mind. It's like using a soundingboard, talking through things to figure them out. If you don't like it it's okay, but what's the harm in an opinion? Offense should never be taken from a different opinion, taste or point of view. Especially when that different side is clearly trying to understand both sides. Or at least I sure think that's clear.
Anyway, if you've got a reason I should want a Benchmade, regardless if it's a Griptillian or not, please do offer, be constructive rather than destructive.
