Your first benchmade?

[pmek5]

Mine was a 3100 Auto Benchmite. Carried for a couple years. It's retired now.

 

[T Schloz]

551 Griptilian. Followed up with a 710 a few months later.

Tom

 

[KG_Trenton]

The LFK... My first real Benchmade, the Triage

 

[FW JSB]

Mini Barrage with the black blade.

 

[jbob24]

Blacked out barrage in 2009 (or '10, I don't remember)

 

[72jroberts]

Mine was a CQC 7. I got it in approx 1996. It's the Benchmade emerson with the tanto and the combo edge. At the time, I thought it was amazing. Now, I cant stand emerson's dippy grinds and I hate combo edges. Still have it though. Got me hooked on Benchies, though. My second was an Elishewicz Stryker i bought in 1997, Plain edge, and the third was a mini afck with a combo edge. Wish TO HELL I would of bought the full size AFCK. That is one awesome knife. My wife carried the mini afck in her purse for years. Good memories!
John

 

[hostileuniverse]

Mine was a nitrous Stryker, but I too spent many hours during my childhood staring at them balisongs in the hunting mags, I never forgot that butterfly

 

[Swoop03]

My first came this month, a Mini Ritter Grip
I have scratches showing through the stonewash in just a week. I've been thrashing on it pretty hard. I love it.

 

[FordFan]

My first BM was a custom Mini Grip followed quickly by a 940 and then a 950. Got all three within six months or so.

 

[crystalEyes]

My first was a skirmish. friggin huge knife and I loved the titanium handle. sadly it was stolen out of my truck along with a large portion of my collection.

 

[TheKallumS]

I wanted mine to have been a 940. I seen it the shop case and drooled till I heard the price. I was at that stage where I couldn't tell good from bad.. But my first was a basic, bone stock, stain 154cm blade, black scales, mini grip.

 

[dano]

Mine was a 610, followed by a silver-medallion mini-AFCK.

-dan

 

[J&G-Designs]

Mini Griptilian with Tanto blade my favorite edc til it was lost at a job site.

 

[Keyman]

A LE mini-Ritter in M2 steel #95
These, along with the full size Ritters, were the last knives ever to be produced in M2 steel by Benchmade.
I'm so glad I got one of each of these.

 

[Frogskins]

My first ...

 

[SunsetFisherman]

mine was a 940 about a year ago, still carry it every day great knife

 

[Haffner]

610...

 

[tussery]

Mine was a HK Nitrous Blitz.

 

[JD Spydo]

My First ever Benchmade model I got right about the same time I got my very first Spyder was back in 1995. The very first Benchmade knife I ever got was at a Gun Show here in Kansas City, Missouri. It was a "Mini-Reflex" model 2500 auto. Shortly thereafter I got a Phil Boguszewski Spike model 640 and shortly thereafter I got the automatic version of the model "Auto-Spike model 1000.

 

[nepki]

Got my first Benchmade last week: 741 Onslaught. Gorgeous Beast of a folder. Love it! :emot-yarr: