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- The 10105 ERT series has been replaced by the Houdini series.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.