Who is buying these new Benchmades?

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At $560 and $580 on the website, slightly discounted at dealers, who is buying these? Anyone have an opinion?

My opinion is that Benchmade has lost their minds.

But I’m genuinely wondering if they’re selling, and to whom?

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knarfeng said:
As we used to say when playing kid games, "Not it." Above my pay grade.
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My last two Benchmades and dang, I felt I was really reaching at these price points. I own a CRK so I’m not beyond a “spend”. I’m only buying users at this point but geez…those things are pricey for what they are.
 

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I think I draw the line around $240 with Benchmade ( full sized Adamas ). Half a grand for a mass production knife is a little high. You’ve got a lot of competition at half that price. The people who’ve purchased one of the narrows models seem to enjoy them.

* The blacked out narrows does look pretty nice , just not at $560 though.
 
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luethge said:
I think I draw the line around $240 with Benchmade ( full sized Adamas ). Half a grand for a mass production knife is a little high. You’ve got a lot of competition at half that price. The people who’ve purchased one of the narrows models seem to enjoy them.

* The blacked out narrows does look pretty nice , just not at $560 though.
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Right?! You are deep into LG territory at that point and LG is head and shoulders above 😉
 
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I wish Benchmade Benchmade would rerelease some of the older ones in upgraded steels - specifically the Presidio 2 and 910 Stryker , Cruwear, M4 or even S35VN steel would be incredible. Benchmade makes great user knives.. I think they’re losing a lot of potential customers at the newer price points. I’ll still carry and use my Benchmade stuff .. been carrying one since the mid 90’s, not stopping now.
 
People who don't know better or only care for the design and disregard "value".

I used to be a huge Benchmade fan a little over a decade ago, but I've been burned one too many times by their shitty "craftsmanship" to support them. Boggles my mind how a company that puts out consistently badly made product and relies on customers for quality control is still in business. Every other company makes efforts to improve their manufacturing and tooling year after year, meanwhile I can see the same exact tooling defects and screws that poke through the liners on a brand new 940 that are present on my 8 year old 940, same crooked bevels, same mangled factory edge and "recurve" on what should be a straight edge. Only thing Benchmade is good for is discontinuing good models, jack up prices, eat hot chip and re-release discontinued models for 3x the price. (I'm looking at you 710).
 
A.L. said:
600 smackers held together with paper clip.
No thanks!
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This is my main problem with pretty much any benchmade nowadays. Now I get it people, omega springs don’t break often, and they’re easy enough to replace, and they have upgraded the design, yadda yadda.

It’s the same reason I will not buy OTF Automatics, I refuse to buy and use a knife which has the failure point of a small spring. My garage door’s giant spring will break every 15 years. I get that knives are different, but I don’t see the appeal when I can get frame locks, button locks, liner locks, spring locks, back locks, all which have proven to be operational for a long time.

Slipjoints 100 years old still function more often than not in current day. Usually with a very sharpened down blade… but the mechanism has lasted.

I like benchmade’s designs but in my opinion anything with the axis lock is just a blade with a mechanism that will not outlast it. Plus, the price increases on benchmade have been actually insane. Id rather buy a TRM or an ABW for similar price but much higher quality.
 
I am not; there are many other brands that are pro 2A and have a better product at that price point.

I have an AFCK and a 710 and an Ascent which was made with a Spydie hole back in the day. I use to really like BM, but not anymore.
 
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AmericanEDC said:
At $560 and $580 on the website, slightly discounted at dealers, who is buying these? Anyone have an opinion?

My opinion is that Benchmade has lost their minds.

But I’m genuinely wondering if they’re selling, and to whom?

www.benchmade.com

743 Mini Narrows™ Knife in Gray Titanium | Benchmade Knives

Elevate your EDC with the 743 Mini Narrows™! Titanium frame, CPM-20CV blade, and Sapphire Blue hardware make it a premium compact choice. Upgrade today!
www.benchmade.com www.benchmade.com
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For me the aluminum handled Bailout is a better knife, with better blade steel and a more comfortable narrow profile at 1/2 the price. The difference in weight is about 30% of 1 once.

N2s
 
Murdamook.3 said:
You can buy an MG Demko, if you can find one, for less than the Narrows. They’re jumping the shark. Kershaw released the Bel Air and, along with Hogue, proved Benchmade is gouging.
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Nothing was proved. Kershaw isn't even a competitor of benchmade, ZT is.

If they are too expensive don't buy them but stop polluting every benchmade thread with your complaints.
 
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