Your 2 cents on BM H&K

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Johnny Blaze

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I been a fan of Benchmade balisongs for some time now, and I know that they make great folding knives too. I wanted a legal EDC and the H&K caught my eyes recently. From those who own this knife, tell me of your feelings, love, or issues about the knife. Also is it the right choice for that price range?
 
I can't speak specifically about any of the HK BM models since I don't own any, but I can tell you a couple things.

There's two levels of these knives, you could translate these into BM's Red and Blue classes. The Red class ones would be the less expensive linerlocks with N690 steel. The Blue class ones have 154CM and AXIS locks. 154CM blades and AXIS locks are Benchmade's bread and butter. Always high quality. So if you like the style of the HK BMs, go for it.

One note though, if you're worried about legal carry in Chicago, the city has a statute that limits blade length on knives to 2.5".
 
Wow your good. Yeah definately the axis lock. I live on the suburbs and there pretty relaxed here. 3.5 inch seems perfect, though I will check with local laws.
 
I'm rather intrigued by them personally. One of the few tantos I've seen in quite awhile that caught my eye. (and I usually hate tantos, curves, and rarely appreciate axis locks, and swore never to own another H&K product about nine years ago!) sheesh...most be gettin' soft in my old age... :D

Looks to me like it oughta cut real well, and be pretty darn rugged too!

lookin' forward to seein' what other folks have to say.
 
Why don't you like the AXIS locks? That's actually what caught my interest on those. And was the HK product produced by the makers of Benchmade previously?
 
I really do need to clarify that last post-

Axis lock- it just never felt right to me, and I've never found it to be as "rock solid" as other folks have in my personal experience. It's smooth, it's quick opening, quick closing, and it's definitely a worthy lock, I'd have no problems suggesting it to a friend, and I think the whole "spring breakage" topic is WAY over done I just don't like it- definitely much more of a matter of individual taste than of function.

H&K products- that was a more tongue in cheek remark that pertained to a bad experience I had with an H&K SL-7 rifle I'd bought. It was basically a piece of garbage, the factory reps were rude as heck, and wanted an arm and a leg to just look at it- in the meantime Springfield, Ruger, Glock, Sig, Smith& Wesson, etc. were providing customer service far beyond that offered by H&K. In otherwords, I'm sure it's a damn good knife just because it's really a Benchmade- I just don't wanna give H&K a red plugged cent or advertise thier products.

No reason to hesitate or worry about either area due to my babbling. :D
 
GarageBoy said:
emerson produced the first hks
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Not true. Benchmade had a CQC-7 model with the HK logo back in the day which was the 970HK. It had the HK "No Compromise" logo on the blade and the USP image on the reverse. Boker also made some aweful polymer-handled linerlock folders for HK as well, but they were crap. If I remember correctly there was even a Spyderco Q knife with the HK logo on the blade.
 
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