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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2472882" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>Benchmade actually manufactured the first couple of Ernie's designs for him back when he was getting started (most famously the CQC series - those that are still labeled Benchmade / Emerson are worth quite a bit of money these days).</p><p></p><p>No denying that Emersons are great knives, but I've owned 3 and the fit/finish leaves plenty to be desired for the kind of money you pay. I've not experienced the infamous blade-play that so many complain about, but they are just Ti liner-lock knives (all of mine had visible sloppy tooling marks on the liners and the scales/liners on a few were slightly mis-matched in a couple of places).</p><p></p><p>They're great designs, but if you try and abuse them like they're some sort of super-knife, they will fail you (and have - in several documented cases). They also make their scales uber-thick (even on most of the smaller models), which I'm not a fan of, but it does fill the hand better and most folks seem to like them in the hand. </p><p></p><p>All that being said, I really regret selling my A100 (once I re-profiled it to a true-V ground edge) and my CQC-7v. I can do without several of Emerson's other models (not a fan of chisel-grinds, combo-edges, or re-curves), but those two were great knives. The newer Spec War does looks pretty nice too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2472882, member: 229"] Benchmade actually manufactured the first couple of Ernie's designs for him back when he was getting started (most famously the CQC series - those that are still labeled Benchmade / Emerson are worth quite a bit of money these days). No denying that Emersons are great knives, but I've owned 3 and the fit/finish leaves plenty to be desired for the kind of money you pay. I've not experienced the infamous blade-play that so many complain about, but they are just Ti liner-lock knives (all of mine had visible sloppy tooling marks on the liners and the scales/liners on a few were slightly mis-matched in a couple of places). They're great designs, but if you try and abuse them like they're some sort of super-knife, they will fail you (and have - in several documented cases). They also make their scales uber-thick (even on most of the smaller models), which I'm not a fan of, but it does fill the hand better and most folks seem to like them in the hand. All that being said, I really regret selling my A100 (once I re-profiled it to a true-V ground edge) and my CQC-7v. I can do without several of Emerson's other models (not a fan of chisel-grinds, combo-edges, or re-curves), but those two were great knives. The newer Spec War does looks pretty nice too. [/QUOTE]
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