Benchmade Adamas realization

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PenguinsRcool2

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I have now owned 2 adamas’s and 1 mini adamas. I love what these knives tried to be. But all 3 of them, had lock failure. The first one i noticed while cutting a plastic band on a pallet of brick at work, i cut through it with some force, as they are hard af to cut, amd the adamas cutting profile isnt good. The blade somehow came out of the lock and clipped the corner of my finger. So i locked it back up and lightly tapped the spine, lock failed again. I returned it to benchmade got credit bought another, knowingly i got it, and battoned a piece of wood for my smoker, this wood i could split with a pencil, its stupid dry and some sort of incredibly weak pine about 2” diameter, lock failed. Sent it back they “fixed it” failed again. Sometime later bought a mini adamas used, guy said he never really used it. I honestly thought it wouldnt fail aftwr about a week of use i was using the spine with the knife open to pry open a bin of hydrualic cement with a plastic paint can cap kinda thing… almost no pressure was put on it, it failed…
Morale of the story this knife series is the worst knife series of all time, perhaps the worst folding knife ever made. Every single person i know or have seen on social media used one, it fails. It isnt safe, and its STILL marketed as heavy use… plus personally i have not seen benchmade say a single thing. All they have to do is add a 1/4 inch to the bottom of the blade where the lock sits but they dont care about the safety or needs of their customers. It is just sad
 
Weird. I've got two of them I often carry as work knives.
The Adamas has a fine profile for cutting IMHO. The mini cuts exceptionally well for its size. The most I have done is cut myself by being an idiot and not using the safety on my Adamas Auto and having it open in my pocket.

I'm not going to try and carry water for BM as I'm not a fanboy, really. I just haven't had mine fail on me at any point cutting any thing. Then again, I've only been a contractor for 20 years and don't readily baton with a folder, so any input I may have should be taken with a grain of salt.
 
el gigantor said:
I personally know three different people who have had omega springs fail or break on them. I will never buy a Benchmade product, no matter how much I love the design.
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In my case the springs didnt fail, like to my knowledge the lockbar did not move forward maybe a little up like 1/16th, just on the bottom of the blade there isnt enough butt there. Compared to my 940s or my bugout or my ritter hogues or any other axis kinda thing, its clearly less steel under the bar. But ya possibly tighter omega springs could assist in the issue.
 
As an opinion to all i had a 980 turret… i beat the absolute hell out of that knife never failed so if you want to get an adamas find an old 980 turret lol
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Weird. I've got two of them I often carry as work knives.
The Adamas has a fine profile for cutting IMHO. The mini cuts exceptionally well for its size. The most I have done is cut myself by being an idiot and not using the safety on my Adamas Auto and having it open in my pocket.

I'm not going to try and carry water for BM as I'm not a fanboy, really. I just haven't had mine fail on me at any point cutting any thing. Then again, I've only been a contractor for 20 years and don't readily baton with a folder, so any input I may have should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Ya, i usually dont but if you are going to market it as hard use and release videos of benchmade reps batoning lightly… then its gotta do it. Just be careful with it as an edc use slipjoint rules when cutting hard plastic and such
 
have witnessed failures as well. at this point, no reason not to go hogue+goat, massdrop perpetua, or even that james brand kline imo.
 
PenguinsRcool2 said:
I have now owned 2 adamas’s and 1 mini adamas. I love what these knives tried to be. But all 3 of them, had lock failure. The first one i noticed while cutting a plastic band on a pallet of brick at work, i cut through it with some force, as they are hard af to cut, amd the adamas cutting profile isnt good. The blade somehow came out of the lock and clipped the corner of my finger. So i locked it back up and lightly tapped the spine, lock failed again. I returned it to benchmade got credit bought another, knowingly i got it, and battoned a piece of wood for my smoker, this wood i could split with a pencil, its stupid dry and some sort of incredibly weak pine about 2” diameter, lock failed. Sent it back they “fixed it” failed again. Sometime later bought a mini adamas used, guy said he never really used it. I honestly thought it wouldnt fail aftwr about a week of use i was using the spine with the knife open to pry open a bin of hydrualic cement with a plastic paint can cap kinda thing… almost no pressure was put on it, it failed…
Morale of the story this knife series is the worst knife series of all time, perhaps the worst folding knife ever made. Every single person i know or have seen on social media used one, it fails. It isnt safe, and its STILL marketed as heavy use… plus personally i have not seen benchmade say a single thing. All they have to do is add a 1/4 inch to the bottom of the blade where the lock sits but they dont care about the safety or needs of their customers. It is just sad
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This is your opinion only. I've got four Adamas, one of 'em an auto and have never experienced this whatsoever. Maybe you're clinching up on the knife and somehow sliding the crossbar forward? They're some of my favorite knives.
 
Quiet said:
This is your opinion only. I've got four Adamas, one of 'em an auto and have never experienced this whatsoever. Maybe you're clinching up on the knife and somehow sliding the crossbar forward? They're some of my favorite knives.
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The auto it will not happen, look it up on youtube, it might not be all knives but its every one iv owned and my friend had 2 they both failed. But i know for a fact the auto doesnt do it. Glad yours are ok, even a light spine tap and mine would pop out. But yes certainly just an opinion off of the knives i have owned and what i have seen in video from others.
 
PenguinsRcool2 said:
The auto it will not happen, look it up on youtube, it might not be all knives but its every one iv owned and my friend had 2 they both failed. But i know for a fact the auto doesnt do it. Glad yours are ok, even a light spine tap and mine would pop out. But yes certainly just an opinion off of the knives i have owned and what i have seen in video from others.
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Also, I will say that I would agree inasmuch that these knives aren't slicers. Blade's too thick for that. But, a big sharp CruWear blade, I haven't run into anything it won't go through. I'm sorry you guys got lemons. Like my bud Steely_Gunz Steely_Gunz I am not a BM fanboy, and won't defend them or say that they've never let a dud slip past QC, because I know it can happen. It's just the first time I've seen someone have this same issue with multiple knives of the same model. When I see that, I tend to start looking at the common denominator.
 
Quiet said:
Also, I will say that I would agree inasmuch that these knives aren't slicers. Blade's too thick for that. But, a big sharp CruWear blade, I haven't run into anything it won't go through. I'm sorry you guys got lemons. Like my bud Steely_Gunz Steely_Gunz I am not a BM fanboy, and won't defend them or say that they've never let a dud slip past QC, because I know it can happen. It's just the first time I've seen someone have this same issue with multiple knives of the same model. When I see that, I tend to start looking at the common denominator.
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Iv owned 30 or so axis locks only ones to fail are adamas and every one iv had has failed :( just figured id see opinions in the community. Dbk which i watch every show, theirs failed. Several other you tubers. But it seems people here are not having issues and or do not push their knives to that point that they are failing. Which is fine! I was just curious and wanted to warn potential customers
 
PenguinsRcool2 said:
Iv owned 30 or so axis locks only ones to fail are adamas and every one iv had has failed :( just figured id see opinions in the community. Dbk which i watch every show, theirs failed. Several other you tubers. But it seems people here are not having issues and or do not push their knives to that point that they are failing. Which is fine! I was just curious and wanted to warn potential customers
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I watched that DBK fail too. Maybe the new model coming out will be remedied somehow that this isn't an issue. CF scales I believe? I'm kind of surprised when QC fails that hard over this length of time. You'd think they would have tweaked them by now.

Every dud off the shelf is the potential loss of a customer forever.

How can you watch every episode? Those guys are too over the top for me to get through a whole video.
 
Quiet said:
Admittedly, I AM a fanboy of the crossbar lock, which they have been doing for a very long time. :D
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Me too just that one knife it doesnt
marcus52AR said:
I watched that DBK too. Maybe the new model coming out will be remedied somehow that this isn't an issue. CF scales I believe? I'm kind of surprised when QC fails that hard over this length of time. You'd think they would have tweaked them by now.

Every dud off the shelf is the potential loss of a customer forever.

How can you watch every episode? Those guys are too over the top for me to get through a whole video.
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i think the genuine user base doesn’t care, i mean this thread alone they seem to be happy with it, and it would be great if they did fix it but I wouldn’t bet on it
 
PenguinsRcool2 said:
Me too just that one knife it doesnt

i think the genuine user base doesn’t care, i mean this thread alone they seem to be happy with it, and it would be great if they did fix it but I wouldn’t bet on it
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I was interested in the new model coming out, but I'll check some reviews and reconsider before I get one. They are getting up there $$. For the price of these, lockup should be a non issue.
 
I had an adamas mini carried for 2 years without any failures. I agree they need to improve the lock bar though.
 

Go to the 8min ish mark.

For the record, I've not had a single axis lock fail. Omega spring from a 940 yes.

Also DBK has completely lost me a few years back, my hypothesis is they got too greedy with sponsorship and is getting paid off (like many other youtubers). Take what they say/do with a grain of salt. Some of their older videos are okay, I bought a super freek because of them and that's a great knife back when they were 160.
 
marcus52AR said:
I was interested in the new model coming out, but I'll check some reviews and reconsider before I get one. They are getting up there $$. For the price of these, lockup should be a non issue.
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Lookup adamas fail on YouTube, there are hundreds, i have never had any other axis lock luckily its just an issue with the Adamas mainly
 
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