You're welcome Barrabas, I do get good input from this group. Regarding the Axis,arc locks, Benchmade never offered the lock to us. I guess we could "loophole" it, but I would prefer not to unless forced.
The lock-back is quite well known, we're good at making them. They are not so easily "inertia" opened as the Axis/arc for a mainstream product.
The plastic clip just plain didn't work well enough. We changed the mold 6 times in an effort to find the right combination, but still had problems. A plastic coated metal clip is best, but we haven't found a really good way to do that yet.
The blades on all Delica's will in the future be just under 3".
The tips are beefier.
They will be ambi.
sal