Opinel No. 12 vs Benchmade Bailout

The blade came sharp, but as a professional sharpener, I made it sharper up to 10,000 grit utilizing a Chocera stone. The blade length is more like a #10 Opinel - which is fine for me. The locking mechanism works well - even better than wood handle Opinels which opens with a bit more resistance. The lanyard works well

Personally, I can’t recommend spending this much on a knife that feels this cheap. Hopefully future editions will remedy it without users voiding warranties. In any case, until I can get black scales in aluminum or titanium, this is a hard pass for me, and the knife is reduced to being just “okay” when it could’ve been great. I’ll stick to my Benchmade Nimravus, Crooked River, and Anthem until something worthwhile happens

Definitely NOT an Every Day Carry. Weight 5.3 oz, length 6", no clip. I am putting it with my camping gear

Then I flexed the knife while open and saw how much it flexes. It isn’t the blade that flexes but the plastic where the pivot point is. I’d rather have a cheaper steel and know the whole knife can last. I returned it for a Benchmade 940-1 Osborne with full Aluminum handle and S30V blade

You know just the normal one and save yourself like 30 bucks, so not impressed. I will have links in description below over to Amazon for these. If yo...

There are some budget brands out there that offer great value for your money and then there is Benchmade; top tier craftsmanship and a great warranty as well as Lifesharp.

It's a big knife and a little unwieldly. I tried batoning it for some kindling. It'll do in a pinch but I think for processing wood I'd rather use an axe or a fixed blade knife.

- Benchmade Bailout: I love the slim, lightweight design. Love the green and grey color combo. Hate the glass breaker. Just seems like one of those "hey look at this feature we added even though you didn't ask for it and don't need it!" features

If you ask me all right so now we got all those chunks there. So now what I want to do is just take them all off. Take them all off, got ta, make arro...

Cool blade design and good steel but didn’t come very sharp which isn’t the end of the world but the scales are what ruin it the plastic at first seems to make sense it bends but seems durable. However the bending leads to the problem of when it Bends the screws pop out I have been edc’ing the knife for a month and have already had 4 screws fall out the last of which completely ended the structural integrity of the knife, I have ordered new custom titanium scales and screws from rock scales design ( not on Amazon) to make up for this costing another almost 200$.

I have no problem with that, but a knife. This way you can see. It's pretty big, and this sticks out the end here and my hand is all palm no fingers a...

With the liners being so short all the stress goes into the handles and this is my big concern when using it hard EDC. I do really like the looks and hopefully it will fulfill my normal EDC.