Month: January 2009

Heading to SHOT 2009

I’m heading to SHOT Show for new products and other various & sundry tasks.  Our office will be shipping and processing orders by phone but we will not be open for walk-in customers.  We’ll reopen for local customers on Monday.

For those of you watching, I’ll post what pictures I can!

Benchmade 2009 Products, Pricing, & Discontinueds

Benchmade has released their 2009 product catalogs, both Consumer and Law Enforcement; with this we see a number of new products and various items that will no longer be produced.

New products include:

  • Orange Handled 551 Griptilians
  • The 580 Barrage and 585 Mini-Barrage designs from Warren Osborne
  • 18 new pen colors, styles & designs, including Slim Tactical & Gentleman’s series
  • The return of the Nimravus Cub
  • The Marc Lee “Glory” Knife
  • Product variants of the Mel Pardue Presidio called the “Presidio Ultra”, available in manual or automatic opening
  • New Red Class models: the 10350 “Aphid” and 10700 “Nagara”
  • Single Edged Infidels in 4 variants
  • The 10105 ERT series has been replaced by the Houdini series.

More information on the new models as it becomes available.

Since there are 50+ individual products that were eliminated from the 2009 lineup, it’s easier just to create a page than to list them all seperately here.  Some initial thoughts:

  • Foliage Green & Desert Sand modeled autos are eliminated – they are subject to what’s still on hand at Benchmade
  • D2 Nimravus models are gone
  • 100SH2O models are eliminated
  • Skirmishes, Apparitions, Fixed Presidio, and several Griptilian options are gone including the Skyline camo variants
  • Plain edge autos are gone from the Auto Stryker, as are the 9130 models. 🙁

More info as I get it processed.