Monday, January 3rd: Best New Tactical Fixed Blade ( WINNER: Benchmade 375 Adamas) No lock? No problem! tomorrow we’re giving out the Readers’ Choice Award for Best New Non-Locking Knife/Slipjoint Knife! We’re on the cusp of seeing what sort of releases Benchmade has planned for this year, and we don’t know yet if they include any kitchen knives but with the Station Knife they’ve already made a mark in the genre. It’s easy to imbue the Station Knife with your personal style, which is fitting for a knife made to be a lifelong companion in the kitchen. And then you’ve got a buffet of G-10 and Richlite flavors for the handle scales – or even carbon fiber if you prefer. You can have a blade made from 440C if you want to keep maintenance to an absolute minimum, or upgrade to CPM-154 to maximize edge retention. It’s comfortable and balanced, and the faux reverse bolster look nods to traditional knife aesthetics while putting a little twist on them.īenchmade chose to release the Station Knife through its Custom Shop, which means that every material on it can be tweaked. Speaking of the camp, the Station Knife’s handle seems like it was inspired by the grip on outdoors fixed blades, with the palm swell in the middle and big lanyard hole at the tail end. It’s a shape ready for big and little kitchen chores, equally adept on the line, in the home, or at camp. Whatever challenges there were behind the scenes, the Benchmade Station Knife comes across as effortless you see it and think, “Yes, of course, this is what a Benchmade kitchen knife would look like.” Their riff on the santoku shape has the clean, aerodynamic, utilitarian look of classic Benchmade blades like the 940 or the sheepsfoot Griptilian. The genre invites an entirely different set of concerns compared to the more established categories like EDC or outdoors knives, and it gets even more complicated when you want to make a kitchen knife look like it belongs in a catalog that includes mainly modern outdoors and EDC knives. We’ve talked to designers many times about the challenges inherent in kitchen knife design. That knife was a contender in for the 2020 RCAs, but this year Benchmade clinched it with the Station Knife. Benchmade made its first foray into foodie fixed blades last year with the Meatcrafter. And you know it’s an important section of the market when the big name companies bend their efforts towards breaking into it. It grew at such a clip that we knew we had to add a kitchen knife category to the Readers’ Choice Awards last year. In recent years we’ve watched interest in kitchen cutlery grow and grow in the knife enthusiast community.
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