I mean the sharpening I fixed for him cause he’s my little buddy... he hasn’t paid for that in a long time

G1

Shawn Wilson They also send out bad knives but, it isn't near this. Out of 10 I've bought, one had an issue and it was just off center. But, it was on a TI endura which sucked.. Spyderco is a very sound bet.

Shawn Wilson that’s a shame. Because these clowns don’t represent the greatness of BM. Ex military, current oil and gas operations. My 940 has been with me through everything. BM has put a new blade on twice and polished the scales without asking. When you need...no..require your blade to perform, there is no substitute.

Go in store and get one. U can inspect it before buying. Give ur local stores some business

@@troyzuber5739 I have one now it's a good knife.

@@spartanswerve7575 I have one now it's a good knife I tend to use my coldsteel more do to ease of maintenance. I do carry my BM every day it gets used for food mainly.

I hope

I’m glad you had a good experience and I would love to say that you’re right but ... I’ve had literally hundreds of benchmade knives show up over the years and the majority of them have all had the same issues

July 8, 2018 - I agree. I own 4 Benchmades, 940-2, Foray, Mini Presidio II, Grizzly Ridge, and have a custom Griptilian being built as I write this. The first four have been flawless and worked perfectly in every way for me, I am very confident my new Griptilian will be the same. Benchmade may have had some quality control issues in the past but, as far as I can see, they are absolutely excellent. There will be more BM knives in my future.

Lockdown spinning will not buy a benchmade again

@Lockdown spinning he didn't say that. hes paraphrasing or whatever word you want to use. She disagreed, "yes they did, no they didn't" so stop.

I own 5 Ferrum Forge knives never had a uneven bevel ... and I’ve sharpened probably 30 reate knives and a bunch of shirogorov knives, none of those had uneven bevels so there are companies that get it right

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp ha, guess I was making an over generalization. I haven’t had the knives you mentioned so you got me. I have primary experience with Benchmade, Spyderco, ZT, CRK,Hinderer, cold steel ect. By uneven bevels I guess I’m splitting hairs in some cases as I throw them on a clamped system and parts of the bevel may be a tad off lik the heal or tip, or one side may be a degree off from the other side. Some are waaay off and some may have a small part of the bevel off.

If you want you could send it to me and I can see what I can do... I can’t promise anything

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp, Thanks so much for replying, if i would have known about your channel earlier I would have sent it to ya, I ended up selling it to my buddy.

Bought my bugout online and it's totally fine

My 940-1 was basically chisel ground and now has a slight recurve in it on top of the chisel grind. Maybe a little more bevel on one side verses the other is one thing, but lately all the benchmades I see are chisel ground and/or have a recurved bevel. Granted learning about grinding and hanging out with knife makers has made me a little more critical. Knives that are almost or over $200 shouldn't be this bad if cheaper knives are coming out with less issues though

crabborg If that is the case, then I've been lucky. Admittedly my sample size is small and it sounds like all of my Benchmades are older than these issues have been coming up regularly. I don't mean to be argumentative, it's just a hard thing for me to accept because Benchmade is a company that I have loved and recommended to people for years. I felt like I needed to comment because the comments Mike mockingly quoted were comments I have made. I totally bow to his expertise and I am sure you guys are right, but like I said it is a little hard to swallow. Still love my 940 though.

James G. I completely understand and was the same way. Hated to think the company I loved would be turning out crap. But every time I see a Benchmade and when I stop by the local shop to see what's new and check the benchmades there I keep getting disappointed. I wish the would get better so I could start buying from them again

Jovonn Trujillo Really? I have a S90 manix LW and a 20CV griptillian. I thought M390 and 20CV outperformed S90. I wish I had two of those manix in S90 as I can't bring myself to use the only one. From now on I buy two sprint runs so I can use one and collect the other.

I want them to get their shit together... I used to love benchmade

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp As getting my very first knife. I just design not to buy benchmade or exchange to another benchmade anymore.

Yes, Strider does sharpening right. The only down side is that some come with lock-rock. If you like 50+ degree inclusive edge bevels, then hinderer is your ticket.

neroknives I've had very great edges from spyderco on a USA produced knife. The one in particular was M-4 steel and it was finely finished and didn't appear as rough ground as others. I haven't owned a strider. ZT is as high as I've gone. I can't stand the SNG personally but, I'm sure I'll try a strider sooner than later.

Strider has consistently good edges out of the box--if you can find them. Hard to acquire new as of late. The SnG is an amazingly comfortable platform. Hinderer has improved recently with the Gen2 Eklipse and Firetac releases. These newer knives are sharper out of box (shaving sharp, but still 40-50*). Winkler fixed blades are probably the worst, though, in terms of sharpness out of the box. Too bad considering the quality of the knives Winkler makes. His fixed blades are amazingly capable knives. The problem is the people sharpening his Winkler II knives. They need some serious help. I'm afraid to buy a Benchmade--especially one as expensive as the 781 Anthem. People say blade centering is hit-n-miss. I can't stand an off center blade, especially at $425+ and on an integral frame. No way to adjust centering unless they use different thickness washers, etc. Spyderco is great in terms of sharpness out of box!

Reate and We are one thing, but if many times cheaper Ganzos beat them at their own game, that is real failure. When I was new to knife hobby everyone suggested to buy Grip. I went to a local store, checked them both and Grip persuaded me to become Ganzo fan. The same lock but with good centering, no blade play, and g10 instead of that cheap feeling plastic handle, and for 5 times less money. Sure steel is worse, but office slaves don't cut that much.

I like Ganzos for the same reason. Value. I have dozens of them and only one has what I would call quality issues.

MrGeerbear it’s not a butterfly, it’s a balisong.

What it should tell you is I don’t own that knife… It’s not my knife… I don’t like benchmade… Therefore I’m not interested in knowing about that Knife. It’s an honest question because several bench made have come to me from the factory for review on the channel and they were not supposed to be a recurve but benchmade ground them that way. And the fact that at the time we filmed this video I was a full-time custom knife maker I believe that you may be the one that has no idea what you’re talking about

@@CrazySharp Not your knife, you aren't interested in Benchmade or knowing about that knife, so you didn't really know fully what you were talking about about with it. Hence my original comment. Didn't know you were a custom knife maker at the time and had no way of knowing that in the video.

@@BigT962 I don’t need to know anything else about benchmade… I’ve had more benchmades than most people have had knives. I’ve given up on them because their knives are overpriced and underwhelming. So yes I know about benchmade

Jared Tyra I was a die hard fan but, in recent times have noticed QC going downhill. Bad edges, bad lockup, off center blades... I'm taking an almost $200 g-10 and 20CV griptillian. But, I had an orange one recently and it was excellent. My older 2010 benchmade knives are stellar. Now, I'd send people to spyderco as much as it pains me being a diehard benchmade fan. ZT is my number one company now.

Good for you but the majority of my customers have had issues

They are better but they have their own issues

Every Spyderco I've bought has been off center...

I can fix the edge if you need

jojojeep1 that’s a maybe

I did get the knife it’s a very beautiful Knife but in my opinion It’s $150-$180 knife

Also mine came perfect in every way, the grind was even and perfect ,hair popping sharp ,the center was right down the middle I just got very lucky with this one because I bought it sight unseen

Bingo... over charge ... under deliver

David not my shop

Hahahah

Normally I leave comments like this be and do not respond however you have no idea what you’re talking about so in this case I’m going to address it… Nico is very good friend of mine who has the exact same standing as myself when it comes to fakes and Clones , I know where these knives were purchased from and they are 100% real… Benchmade just did not do a thing to either of these knives

@@CrazySharp still theres no way they did nothing, imean ur knifes were fine, they cleaned one so idk.

Well considering I saw them before they left and opened one of them on camera to make sure that what I was telling you in the video is 100% aboveboard... there 100% is a way

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp well have you ever followed up on it with Benchmade

Yes you are partially right on your comment. They dont do shit to fake knives and they also will not send your fake knife back to you either. So if you send them a knife and you get it back from Benchmade, you have an authentic Benchmade knife. Send YOUR fake knife back to China. See how long you wait for that. LOL

It’s easier than s30 and 20CV is the hardest of the 3 to reprofile... you can say “Facts!” All you want but ice sharpened over 100 Ferrum Forge knives in 20CV and at least that many in the other steels ... I’ll take my personal experience over anything else

Nope... he had it right

Ok but facts are facts and the fact that ff knives are so thick is prolly why there the headrest to sharpen!! And simply looking at the make up of s90 and s30 anyone can tell that’s reprofiling s30 is not harder! And I’m sure if u ask the ff guys they would agree. And I’ve watched u for awhile now befor u had 400 subs! And I know u would have a different opinion if u used different abrasives!!!! S90 has higher hrc generally more carbides and many times more wear resistant than s30 even tho I personally love s30! My perfect knife steel! S90 is even more wear resistant than 20cv! Look up vendor specs!

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp and if u sharpen a bench made with 20cv and a bench made with s90 the s90 is much more difficult and much more wear resistant!

I’ve done both and still disagree

Spartan Swerve so you’re going to watch one video out of my 600 and you’re going to call it a garage channel... and Here’s the thing I said nothing in this video that was not proven by the paperwork sent by Nikko and the proof when we open the boxes… If you’re such a bench made fanboy maybe you should start being upset that they let quality slip and that they don’t do what they say they’re going to do

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp why be upset, when they continue to step up? I’m not a BM fanboy, I’m a knife enthusiast. You both sound like paranoid girls. Hans will go above and beyond to make shit right.

Michael Emler - Crazy Sharp *garbage...not garage