Benchmade Custom Shop Bugout

hey what's up youtube it's your guy blade banker hope everybody's doing well it has been a minute and i first wanted to apologize for all that i have been extremely busy with work family stuff and really uh putting together some future content for the channel so thank you for your patience um i actually got something in tonight and just wanted to do a quick video on it as you can tell by the title i'm assuming i haven't made the title yet but i'm going to assume it's going to say something like benchmade bug out from the custom store or something to that effect so let's talk about it let's talk about the bug out in general and the one that i made in the custom store here we go all right friends as you may or may not know benchmade came out with the bug out a couple of years back and it has been a very popular knife where they ended up doing a gold class of it and a mini series of it of two different types that you can buy um the bug out itself really came in one two three four four different versions there are some exclusives that i don't have but i just wanted to talk about them a little bit this is the og bug out this one had blue gravery scales or frn handles however you want to say it it had s30v blade steel with dual blue thumb studs a great knife nice blue barrel spacers it's just really really a good knife and has performed very very well so from there they came out with one that had a coated blade with ranger green scales this one too had s30v it had gold dual thumb studs coated blade and had the ranger green handle scales that are also grivory or frn whichever one you want to call it from there they came out with what was highly asked for and highly anticipated a limited edition that had let me try to get those other out of focus it had g10 handle scales and 20 cv uh blade still you can see it says limited edition there and this one is number 1430 out of 2000. still had the awesome deep carry pocket clip but just much much sturdier of a handle over the gravery or frn whichever you want to call it and then from there they came out with the cf elite which to be quite honest with you i'm not really familiar with what the material is it's supposed to be a little bit stronger than the grivery but not as strong as g10 doesn't have any carbon fiber in there i don't know i don't know the answer i have tried to figure out what exactly uh this handle scale is composed of and i have been unsuccessful this was a first production not a big deal did get it i do like it a lot and at some point down the line they also came up with a gold class bug out which is just great it's got marble carbon fiber handle scales with c-tec inserts these are blue seatec inserts and then it's got a carbon carbon fiber it's got damasteel blade the same as all the other ones it's just let's call it fully dressed and this is number 1291 there are a lot of these on the market so it wasn't very limited at all but nonetheless still a great one to get a hold of as you can tell i'm a big fan of the bug out from there they can't started you started getting uh handle scales available and could kind of customize your own bug out which is what this one is these are carbon fiber handle scales that are on this knife right here so all they did was take that knife and put some nice carbon fiber handle scales and gold um hardware and dressed it up a little bit which was really really cool and then i've got a bj hill exclusive where we took the og this one right here put some fly tanium scales on there he did some sweet anode job to him left the back spacer as it is i mean the guy i'm all over the place left the deep carry pocket clip as it is put in some hardware from blades we love and it just pops so so pretty so i'll put that one to the side and then finally after much demand they came out with a mini version and that is this one here and you can see it in comparison to the others now i'll try to do this by memory i think this one's somewhere around 127. this one's somewhere around 145. this one was somewhere between 175 and 200 i can't remember this one about 145 this one was 750 i think you can get it for less than six let me just tell you i didn't pay anywhere near that for this uh the mini in orange there's a mini in white with a black blade and a mini an orange with a satin blade this one's 119 i believe i don't remember how much these scales cost me to put on the ranger one and then i don't remember uh what bj charged me to do for the work on this one so i say all that to say there's some stuff on the market where you can customize them on your own at this point but one of the best things in my opinion that benchmade has done in quite some time is created a custom shop on their website now it's limited to certain runs or editions of knives certain models that you can customize but it's still really cool in my opinion i think it is super super cool so they recently added the bug out to the custom shop now i'm going to leave this one back on here now keep in mind this was the limited edition it had g10 handle scales had 20 cv blade steel deep carry pocket clip uh the the one thing that i didn't like about it which is kind of its focal point is the natural jg10 and the in the butterfly kind of shadowed in there i just wasn't a big fan of it for whatever reason so the custom shop is still kind of limited in what you can choose from but this is my custom shop um bug out you can see it's a full size here's the mini up next to it it's no mini by any means it is the full size and and what i essentially did was that's the original up next to it so that's showing that it's full size but what i essentially did was took that g10 limited edition right here and i what i thought improved upon it so these are g10 red handle scales and everything is blacked out from the pivot to the hardware to the axis lock to the deep carry pocket clip to the thumb studs it's all blacked out with the exception of the blade the blade is also 20 cv i don't know if you can see it on there right there it's 20 cv so i essentially took this one right here and what i thought was an improvement to it this one is the custom shop this one's the limited edition so i like what i've done to it i've kind of gotten rid of the the ghosting of the butterfly in the back there look you've already marketed it on the blade why do it more in the in the handle scales i just don't know so this one is uh pretty cool i just got it in today so i haven't been able to see it much so i'm giving it you guys a look as i take a look all i literally just took it out of the package because i just got home from the gym uh and then from work from there so that's it red g10 all black hardware black pivot black um access lock black dual thumb studs black deep carry pocket clip and a 20 cv blade that is my benchmade custom shop experience with the bug out i wish they would add a little more options like right now you can't get a damasteel blade i would have liked to at least been able to look at that i'd like to be able to look at some carbon fiber handle scales they don't have that either but they'll get there i'm assuming as long as there's a lot of success in the custom shop now i will say this the one bad thing about benchmade's custom shop is you have to pay msrp on everything you do in there when you could really go to blade hq or a number of um websites and find some handle scales and hardware everything you really need to make it into a full custom you're not gonna get any blade options obviously from the websites but if you have one where you like the blade you can certainly get handle scales and all that so i hope you guys enjoyed this i just wanted to kind of go through the evolution evolution of the bug out and kind of how it has progressed since it was put on the market and then show you what i did through my custom shop experience with the bug out and i kind of like it i'm kind of a big fan to be quite honest with you let me know what y'all think let me know two things in the um comments if you will number one let me know what you think about my bug out custom shop experience and how you like it and number two if anybody can tell me what this cf elite uh is composed of i would love to know that so those are the two things again hope you guys enjoyed the video um let me know on those two things and i will see you on the next one i got a lot of stuff lined up to do so i'm uh really looking forward to it and looking forward to getting back on here to a more consistent basis so thanks so much and i will see you on the next one take care

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Length: 10min 32sec (632 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 25 2020