Benchmade Knife Company
For nearly 40 years, Benchmade has evolved from a small garage in Southern California to a thriving knife manufacturing business located in Oregon City, OR. Motivated to design a knife that embodied the latest manufacturing technology and material, Les de Asis turned his passion into a family-owned and operated business that continues to set the standards for production knife manufacturing around the world. Benchmade’s state of the art facility in Oregon City provides convenient access to downtown Portland, the Oregon Coast, and Mt. Hood, making it easy to immerse yourself in the incredible recreational opportunities and the beauty of our home state. Our team of 400+ employees is dedicated to building dependable American products that are capable of serving a wide range of applications and lifestyles, reflected by our diverse product offering. There is one thing we all have in common: The mastery of our craft. It’s the thing that drives us, consumes our minds, and challenges us to be better. It requires relentless work ethic and tireless innovation. It’s a no-nonsense, no-exception, make-it-right drive for constant betterment. We make knives that are meant to be yours, for life. And we wouldn’t have it any other way.www.benchmade.com
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Sep 6, 2026
JohnSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Gotcha.
JohnSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did somebody buy it for you? It's a Benchmade.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, Benchmade, okay.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did somebody buy it for you? Did you buy it? No, I traded somebody for it.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, okay.
Jake MushaneyHOST
I'll be carrying this knife.
Jake MushaneyHOST
It's a Benchmade.
Jake MushaneyHOST
Fuck me.
Jake MushaneyHOST
It's MagnaCup, but I don't know the brand of it.
Nick LynchHOST
And I was at the landfill throwing it into the scrap steel pile.
Nick LynchHOST
And as I grabbed it out of the back of the truck and flung it, it snagged the pocket clip on my little Benchmade here, which is...
Nick LynchHOST
the nicest folding knife I've ever owned.
Nick LynchHOST
And I only have it because it was a gift and I was afraid to carry it for a very long time, but it snagged the pocket clip.
Nick LynchHOST
And I was at the landfill throwing it into the scrap steel pile.
Nick LynchHOST
And as I grabbed it out of the back of the truck and flung it, it snagged the pocket clip on my little Benchmade here, which is...
Nick LynchHOST
the nicest folding knife I've ever owned.
Nick LynchHOST
And I only have it because it was a gift and I was afraid to carry it for a very long time, but it snagged the pocket clip.
Josh SmithHOST
um, in the evenings and camping.
Josh SmithHOST
And like you say, uh, you know, same with, with Alex that we hired that was working out at, and in Portland at Benchmade, um, the amount of time stuck in a car in traffic and that's time away from your family.
Josh SmithHOST
Cause your, your work expects you to be there till, you know, you're eight, 10 hours a day.
Josh SmithHOST
Yeah.
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Josh SmithHOST
Yeah, and I mean, it's like, you know, whether it's, you know, Dan Winkler and those guys and Winkler knives and whatnot, I've always said like the knife industry I grew up in, right? And so I don't look at it as...
Josh SmithHOST
This nasty competition thing.
Josh SmithHOST
I mean, you know, Benchmade sued us, so I do kind of hate them.
Josh SmithHOST
But, you know, but I there's room for everybody.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
So, you know, take that for what it's worth.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
That being said, this Benchmade knife is the best skinning knife ever.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
I clearly need to clean it, but it is so sharp.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
It is so good.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
I can skin deer so fast and break them down in the field no problem with this.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
That's a two deer, and between these two, I was able to skin them no problem.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
This Benchmade, I don't remember what model it is.
Andrew LukosevicHOST
It's S30V steel.
John KirkwoodGUEST
Yeah, sure.
John KirkwoodGUEST
I want to say on this one, if you're watching this and you've been a Benchmade or a Spyderco person all along, Snip out, spend 20 bucks, get an Opinel, try it on.
John KirkwoodGUEST
Come back, let us know.
Grant LamontagneHOST
I got to say, dollar for dollar, I don't know that there is a better knife on the market than an Opinel.
Dave PackardHOST
There's nothing wrong with that.
HunterHOST
I'm not going to try to say, oh, this is as good as a Benchmade.
Dave PackardHOST
I feel like a company like this, they're not expecting you to do that.
Dave PackardHOST
And if they are, they're fucking retarded.
Noah BloombergHOST
'Cause I would love to make a crossbar lock now that I've just been, like, fidgeting.
Noah BloombergHOST
I, I mean, I've just spent the last couple of weeks making fun of, like, Benchmade and crossbar locks in general.
Noah BloombergHOST
Uh, but now that I got one in my hand, I'm like, "Oh, this is freaking sick." Um-
Ryan CoakleyHOST
No, the original core patent for the standard crossbar lock mechanism on a pocket knife has expired.
Noah BloombergHOST
Yeah.
Ryan CoakleyHOST
It says, "Trademarks are still active.
Ryan CoakleyHOST
While the mechanical design in public domain Benchmade still holds the trademark for the name Axis Lock, other knife brands cannot use that specific name.
Ryan CoakleyHOST
This is why the knife community generalized it, or genericized it, the term crossbar lock, and why individual brands create their own proprietary names for it.
Jared WilsonHOST
I was a custom knife maker for a while, so I love knives.
Jared WilsonHOST
So there's a plethora of SEs, and I don't do Benchmade, but that's just because Benchmade's a pain to deal with, and I don't want to deal with them.
Jared WilsonHOST
I don't let them in for the exact same reason.
Jared WilsonHOST
Gerber, CRKT, I try to get American-made manufacturers.
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