Who is buying these new Benchmades?

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TouhouFan said:
This is my main problem with pretty much any benchmade nowadays. Now I get it people, omega springs don’t break often, and they’re easy enough to replace, and they have upgraded the design, yadda yadda.

It’s the same reason I will not buy OTF Automatics, I refuse to buy and use a knife which has the failure point of a small spring. My garage door’s giant spring will break every 15 years. I get that knives are different, but I don’t see the appeal when I can get frame locks, button locks, liner locks, spring locks, back locks, all which have proven to be operational for a long time.

Slipjoints 100 years old still function more often than not in current day. Usually with a very sharpened down blade… but the mechanism has lasted.

I like benchmade’s designs but in my opinion anything with the axis lock is just a blade with a mechanism that will not outlast it. Plus, the price increases on benchmade have been actually insane. Id rather buy a TRM or an ABW for similar price but much higher quality.
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I have some terrible news for you vis a vis small springs and every single lock you listed. 😉
 
I handled the Narrows at a Benchmade dealer and wasn’t a bit impressed. To be honest, I probably wouldn’t buy one if they offered a 60% discount. I’m a fan of Benchmade products, but this particular one isn’t my cup of tea.
 
donkey12 said:
If I were to buy a BM it would be on the secondary market only. That way they never got my dollars. I look for value too, I'm not seeing it at $550
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It's not a good value at $550. It's a luxury item. A regular F150 for $50k does truck stuff as well as a Raptor R for $100k. If you "look for value", why are you looking at the most expensive items? Are you offended by the cost of Waygu beef and iphones too?
 
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DMG said:
It's not a good value at $550. It's a luxury item. A regular F150 for $50k does truck stuff as well as a Raptor R for $100k. If you "look for value", why are you looking at the most expensive items? Are you offended by the cost of Waygu beef and phones too?
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Yeah, if you ever think a knife is a good value try explaining the price to your wife
 
I don't knock any man who spends his hard earned dosh exactly how he wants. Life is short, do what makes you happy. Knives are bro-therapy after all.

As for me... I'm just a poor boy from a poor family so I've been banned from the Benchmade soup kitchen. If I were to spend that kind of money it would be on a Sebenza.
 
I bought a Narrows at retail because it looked like a combination of two of my favorite knives: a BM 530 and a Bradley (made by BM) Alias. If it had fit my hand well and felt more solid I might have kept it, but I sold it at a significant loss here on the exchange. The cost is probably proportional to the technology going into it, but it’s just a thin knife and wasn’t worth it to me to collect. I bought a Hinderer project X last year which was cheaper (!) and felt like a much better value.
 
TouhouFan said:
Well then axis locks must be terrible since they are the only springs I see breaking regularly
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IMO, it's mostly confirmation bias. I've had liner locks wear completely out, had an old Spyderco back lock die on me and had to replace a spring on a button lock, but I've not had an Axis lock crap out on me. Not saying they don't, but because of the proprietary springs and the specificity of the lock I think it stands out to us much more when they do fail, so we pay more attention.

That said, I do think that the MAP pricing Benchmade is using is pretty absurd. Without it, the prices fall into line with similar offerings.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
IMO, it's mostly confirmation bias. I've had liner locks wear completely out, had an old Spyderco back lock die on me and had to replace a spring on a button lock, but I've not had an Axis lock crap out on me. Not saying they don't, but because of the proprietary springs and the specificity of the lock I think it stands out to us much more when they do fail, so we pay more attention.

That said, I do think that the MAP pricing Benchmade is using is pretty absurd. Without it, the prices fall into line with similar offerings.
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There are a lot of smaller B&M stores that sell for way under map. Finding them is the hard part. I don't mind buying stuff second hand, either.
 
I've actually looked at the Mini Narrows and was not instantly put off by the price point.
However, this is nothing I'd order online. I would want to hold it in my hands and try it out before I made up my mind about it.
It has to feel exceptional.
 
DMG said:
There are a lot of smaller B&M stores that sell for way under map. Finding them is the hard part. I don't mind buying stuff second hand, either.
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Yeah, I totally understand people being turned off by MAP pricing, but I also just buy at a dealer that doesn't advertise their prices and thus sells for a lot lower.
 
DMG said:
Nothing was proved. Kershaw isn't even a competitor of benchmade, ZT is.

If they are too expensive don't buy them but stop polluting every benchmade thread with your complaints.
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Oh, I’m sorry, do Kershaw and Hogue not have options with better materials for a significantly lower price? If you want to debate, you better have a firm grasp on logic and, based on your reply, that seems to be incredibly unlikely. Answer to the point and don’t answer like an injured child when someone questions the pricing of a brand you just happen to enjoy.

I’ve replied to two Benchmade threads posted on the same day. Other than that, I have zero history of posting on Benchmade and that probably extends to the account I lost access to that had 15 years of account history.

“Stop polluting muh ‘Benchmade too expensive’ threads with ‘Benchmade too expensive replies’!”
 
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