hi i'm Derek Lau of benchmade nice company and welcome to a 2018
shot show you're in the benchmade booth here in my meeting room and the pr
meeting room we've got some great new product offerings in 2018 all across the
board we're a big blue class black class and even our hunt series because some
awesome things to show you so let's start off with the top of the top which
is of course the gold class this is our new unlimited gold for 2018 so what
you're seeing here is a six ninety eight for a but we dressed it up so you have
pearl carbon fiber beautiful pattern so a lot different from your typical carbon
fiber with a checkered weave this is more of a pearl finish and we stick the
stuck with that theme with our inlay which is a real mother-of-pearl inlay in
certain lights that mother-of-pearl just pops so definitely a nice littl e
addition of course you have a Damasteel blade awesome little design there
anodized hardware of course just buttery smooth action as you expect and then
regular for it but of course the gold clasp moving on this year the mini lots
of new minis to be shown we'll start off in the blue class four new minis in
there we have the mini boost this is the 595 mini boost so if you remember the
full-sized boost and and the Freak kind of very closely related we want the
Versa flex handles with that or aid in comfort and of course grippieness it's the
mini version on this it almost feels a little faster than the 595 versus the
590 it's a snappier let's just say that I'm not sure if it's actually faster but
much snappier of a knife of course you have s30v again and another cool
addition in the 595 is the addition of a micro deep carry pocket clip now this
was first introduced in the 535 bug-out knife we now have it available in the
595 boost and as I mentioned earlier year of the mini this is the mini freak
6 the 565 again s30v blade great utility style blade that same versa flex
handle that just offers incredible comfort and extra grip now in the blue
class this is a brand-new folder for us is a flip axis flipper assist so what
do you have flipper tap and a little assist action
going on there basically got this spear point bevel kind of on the blade in
addition to that you got g10 handle scales and the neat feature about this
knife in particular is our safety so typically on all of our other safeties
you'll notice that if you accidentally actuate the lock while it's open your
access bars lost you can't close it until you disengage your lock and then
your access bar becomes free for you to close your knife 495 if you accidentally
engage the lock your access bar is still actually free to move giving you the
ability to close it however once it's closed and the lock still is engaged
your knife actually will remain locked moving on to the hunt series so the hunt
series we didn't do a whole lot last year this year we came out swinging and
of course we still in hard with the 5200 altitude available in two different
variants we have the seracote orange and then a dlc black now show you the
sheaths respectively I'm going to start with the orange knife which actually
comes with a first light fusion camo pattern sheath and Kydex
slide right in pressure fit so the whole concept of this tool was for the
backcountry hunter looking to reduce weight and have a great utility tool
that's going to stay sharp and do all the field process processing that they
need so very scalpel esque like design in this film skeletonized framed knife
we have a carbon-fiber bolsters on this for extra grip especially when you're
cutting but we used s90v in this blade instead of s30v which we typically use
in our hunt shoes so s90 give you ideas the tool grade steel add some chrome in
there it makes it a stainless steel and great corrosion resistance but superb
edge retention core in addition to that the black the fusion
camo sheath and the orange version / seats part of the proceeds from sales on
this will actually go help backcountry hunters and anglers which is a great
organization if you don't know about them they help protect access to public
lands so definitely check them out also new in the hunt series big for us a
couple years ago was the full-size Crooked River this is now the mini
Crooked River so lot of folks thought the full-size Crooked river just a little
too big especially for an everyday carry a knife great field knife but not
necessary everyday carry enter the mini Crooked River where you have the same
profile but in a smaller package especially for everyday carry or people
who have even smaller hands we're looking for something that's just not
that big but you have stabilized wood aluminum bolsters and an s30v clip point
blade and of course your orange back spacer in g10 right now only available
in the wood variant in 2018 now a spin on a classic so when we launched the
hunt series low over four years ago we started off with one of our first
folders was the Grizzly Creek which was in profile this knife but featured also
a gut hook and wood handles this is the Grizzly Ridge in addition to the family
and can gives you this kind of more just a traditional pocket knife with just
anodized barreled spacers and anodized thumb lugs for more pop and then of
course we added versa flex handles away with the wood introduced first flex
handles so again as we talked about earlier with a versa flex to get comfort
and grip in addition extra retention in your
pocket once you slip this in your pocket the Versa flex actually helps the knife
stay in your pocket a little better especially for those accidental snagging
of your pocket clip where the knife can get pulled out this versa flex actually
aids a lot and that helps the knife not slip out as easily also new in the hunt
is our fixed blade for this traditionalists who like a traditional
fixed blade we have the 15 400 mill pardhu hunter and couldn't tell from the name
mill pardhu is the designer of this knife very classic looking knife with
micarta handles a basically hi Bebel grind on this to
give you a nice slicing action s30v of course is used on this and it does come
with a pressure fit leather sheath alright we're gonna move onto the black
class right now so in black class this one I'm eager to
tell you guys about is the 101 follow up this is a low profile fixed blade knife
aimed at law enforcement and military guys are anybody who just wants a small
fixed blade the cool benefit of this is here's the sheath right here also thin
in profile whole intent is to tuck behind the mag pouch on officers belt if
that be the case or behind any other gear but the cool added feature on this
knife thigh like the highlight is our cleat system so you have a cleat here
and two cleats in the pommel if that included with the knife is a length of
paracord the paracord is actually meant to slip through here and this is course
where people want to add a paracord wrap to the skeleton nice handle the paracord
should be captured naturally by this cleat system as the ends are burned it
helps you begin your wrap on this knife so as you progress up the handle you're
able to complete your wrap and then finish it off in the last cleats by
cutting off the excess paracord and then burning the end and then anchoring it
down moving on again year of the mini just gonna kind of flash in the pan on
these guys but last year we launched the Presidio - we a now launched the
Presidio 2 minis Auto and course manual so you have that same textured and
updated handle that you see in the Presidio's s30v blade as opposed to 154
before in the original Presidio's and just really great ergonomics it's one of
those knives that you have to pick up and move it in hand I suggest you to
pick up at hand at least to get a good feel of it now also in the new minis is
course the mini loco this came out a couple months ago actually
this is the 8th 1/8 mini loco same economic says it's big brother but - the
8 ounce weight of the original large full size one still heavy knife however
not as heavy and of course just that same kind of s30v blade with high bevel
grind and just very tactical feel
also updated we got a new triage this is the 917 triage the folks who are fans of
the triage will notice there's a drop-point blade in this manual folding
triage we updated the steel to s30v this of course aimed more at law enforcement
folks who want more than just a sheep's foot so we gave him a drop point s30v
steel blade it's still got the same hook and of course we changed up the handle
profile no longer do we use peel ply on the 917 is a contoured g10 so a lot of
the chamfering that we added actually benefits in the carbide tip that allows
individuals to be able to if you need to use the carbide clip and opening
basically smashing a window the chamfering actually gives you a
better opportunity to make contact with carbide to glass just breaking the
window all right almost towards the end last folder though this is the 417 fact
a very sleek tactical knife that we are offering in 2018 a long piece of s30v
stainless steel on this blade of course you got a deep carry pocket clip and
aluminum handles on this guy and last but not least it is the fixed blade
infidel all the DNA of the out the front infidel in a fixed blade form you have
the traditional blade profile with of course the groove in the middle aluminum
handles again calling out to the original infidel and then of course it
comes with a sheath and bolt on that's pressure fit and also has a retention
strap the steel is d2 however price point on this guy will be versus a
infidel at the front which runs about 4 or 85 to 495 and the fixed plate infidel
will be around ballpark of 250 so that pretty much does it for us here at 2018
shot those are all the new product offerings of course check out our
website benchmade.com or you can course check out the knifecenter