Ugly Plastic Thumb Studs

RByers91

RByers91

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Anyone else disgusted by the ugly black plastic thumb studs on some of benchmades products? I mean you'd think if we were paying that much for a knife they could at least make them metal, or a little more appealing. Anyone else agree with me? Is there possibly any solution to this?
 
Aren't the 530's and 585/580's plastic? At least i thought they were when i handled them.
 
If you can't tell what they're made from, does it really matter?

Beware of those plastic Benchmade handles, too.
 
Well it was one of the reasons preventing me from buying one. I just thought it was ugly, and somewhat cheap looking.
 
I heard that the 806 comes with an ugly plastic thumb stud (I'm not certain... don't quote me on that).

You should probably steer clear of that model, just as a reference...
 
I actually really like BM thumb studs because they're screwed construction versus pressed in. It's nice to be able to remove them for cleaning and sharpening.
 
RByers91 said:
Aren't the 530's and 585/580's plastic? At least i thought they were when i handled them.
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The thumbstuds on the 585 are definitely not plastic. Those are Benchmade's standard metal thumbstuds, which in my opinion are the best designed studs in the industry (in terms of functionality).
 
I think anything plastic or the hightech names they give it like polymer are junk. You get it cold enough and it'll break pretty easy.
I prefer steel every time to the new wave plastic crap.
 
I don't think I've seen a BM with plastic thumb studs. My 527 has black coated metal for certain.

The plastic handles on it are a bit irritating but only because they don't have the grip of the Spydie FRN I'm used to. But thats about the only plastic I've seen on BMs
 
shecky said:
Beware of those plastic Benchmade handles, too.
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What do you mean by this?

As far as I know Benchmade uses Valox, not plastic, and if they did, it would have been in their lowest quality line, the Red Series knives, which Benchmade no longer makes.

Have you seen Mini-Grip destruction tests? Let me enlighten you:

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d762nato said:
I think anything plastic or the hightech names they give it like polymer are junk. You get it cold enough and it'll break pretty easy.
I prefer steel every time to the new wave plastic crap.
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Glock...?
 
G10...?

Steel is better sometimes and plastic other times. I personally would take a BM or Spyderco FRN handle over a steel one any day. Heck, even a Ti one.
 
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