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Just a further update after carrying this one every day for the last week. My impressions are unchanged, or perhaps a bit more enthusiastic than when I first got the knife. Perfect centering, free and fast action, no blade play, fantastic ergonomics, superb steel. All the ingredients are there, and they are executed just right.
The one other impression that really came home to me after a week of carrying and using this knife is how absolutely fantastic it is in the pocket. For a 3.5" knife, I don't know of anything that carries this unobtrusively. Benchmade really took advantage of what the integral handle design allowed them to do, namely to make an extremely thin, ergonomic handle. It vanishes in your pocket, better than many much smaller knives. Truly a fantastic carry.
Benchmade aimed high with this one and they pulled it off. I for one really hope to see a variant or two of this model. A blue anodized version sporting a reverse tanto styled blade (which this handle could easily accomodate, not unlike the 940 and 943 variants) would be absolutely fantastic.
The one other impression that really came home to me after a week of carrying and using this knife is how absolutely fantastic it is in the pocket. For a 3.5" knife, I don't know of anything that carries this unobtrusively. Benchmade really took advantage of what the integral handle design allowed them to do, namely to make an extremely thin, ergonomic handle. It vanishes in your pocket, better than many much smaller knives. Truly a fantastic carry.
Benchmade aimed high with this one and they pulled it off. I for one really hope to see a variant or two of this model. A blue anodized version sporting a reverse tanto styled blade (which this handle could easily accomodate, not unlike the 940 and 943 variants) would be absolutely fantastic.