Infidel
Double-action OTF
The flagship. A double-edged dagger that fires forward on the slide, and the one people mean when they say “the Benchmade OTF.”
- Handle
- Black aluminum
- Weight
- 4.9 oz
Authorized Dealer
The Benchmade lineup, model by model
Bear Mountain Outfitters is an authorized Benchmade dealer in historic downtown St. Augustine. Below is what each model is, how it opens, and what it weighs, so you know what to ask for when you walk in or call. The out-the-front, automatic, Water, Rescue and balisong sections are complete — every model Benchmade currently makes; the folders are a selection, because Benchmade lists more than fifty of them. Every one is built in Oregon City, Oregon.
All 5 models
Out-the-Front
Press the slide and the blade fires straight out of the nose; pull it back and it retracts. These are all five out-the-fronts Benchmade currently makes — none left off.
Mini Infidel
Double-action OTF
The same action and the same dagger profile in a frame a third lighter. The Infidel you actually put in a front pocket.
- Handle
- Black aluminum
- Weight
- 3.4 oz
Autocrat
Double-action OTF
An out-the-front built on G10 rather than aluminum, with a glass-breaker set into the butt. Grippier in a wet hand than a machined frame.
- Handle
- Black G10
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 3.9 oz
Phaeton
Double-action OTF
The slim one. A single-edged blade instead of a dagger and a DLC-coated aluminum body, which makes it the easiest of the five to carry all day.
- Handle
- Dark earth aluminum
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 3.0 oz
Shootout
Double-action OTF
The lightest out-the-front in the line by a wide margin — under three ounces — and the one Benchmade currently flags as a best seller. Offered in tanto and drop-point.
- Blade
- Tanto
- Handle
- CF-Elite®
- Weight
- 2.8 oz
All 13 models
Automatic Folders
The blade swings out of the side on a button rather than firing out of the nose. This is Benchmade’s complete side-opening automatic line — the thirteenth, the Auto Triage, is down in Rescue with the rest of the first-responder knives.
Claymore
Automatic folder
A molded Grivory handle keeps it light for a knife this size, which is most of why it is the automatic people end up carrying.
- Handle
- Black Grivory®
- Weight
- 3.5 oz
Mini Claymore
Automatic folder
The Claymore at two and a half ounces — the lightest of the thirteen, and the one you stop noticing in a pocket.
- Handle
- Black Grivory®
- Weight
- 2.6 oz
Auto Adamas
Automatic folder
The Adamas frame with a push-button automatic in it. Thick stock, oversized hardware, and real weight in the hand.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 6.2 oz
Mini Auto Adamas
Automatic folder
The Adamas automatic scaled down, and still very nearly five ounces — which tells you what the full-size one feels like.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 4.8 oz
Auto Osborne
Automatic folder
Warren Osborne’s 940 with a button in it. The same slim reverse-tanto profile as the manual, opening on its own.
- Blade
- Reverse-tanto
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 2.6 oz
Auto Fact
Automatic folder
A thin spear-point on carbon fiber and aluminum. The one to carry when a tactical automatic would be too much knife.
- Handle
- Carbon fiber & aluminum
- Steel
- CPM-S90V
- Weight
- 3.1 oz
Auto Presidio II
Automatic folder
The heaviest automatic in the line — a full machined aluminum frame and better than six ounces of knife.
- Handle
- Black aluminum
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 6.3 oz
Auto Stryker
Automatic folder
A long-running tactical automatic on a machined aluminum frame. An older design that has stayed in the catalog on merit.
- Handle
- Black aluminum
- Weight
- 4.2 oz
AFO II
Automatic folder
Armed Forces Officer, second generation — a big, plain, button-opening folder sized for a gloved hand.
- Handle
- Black aluminum
- Weight
- 5.8 oz
CLA
Automatic folder
Composite Lite Auto: G10 over a steel liner, which is how a full-size automatic comes in under three and a half ounces.
- Handle
- Black G10
- Weight
- 3.5 oz
Casbah
Automatic folder
A molded Grivory handle and a deep-bellied drop-point. Light, plain, and hard to hurt.
- Handle
- Black Grivory®
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 3.4 oz
Mediator
Automatic folder
A slim G10 automatic under three ounces, in S90V. Small enough to disappear in a pocket, which is unusual for an automatic.
- Handle
- Black G10
- Steel
- CPM-S90V
- Weight
- 2.9 oz
15 of more than fifty
Manual Folders
Benchmade lists more than fifty folding models. These are fifteen of the most popular — the first eight are the ones Benchmade itself currently flags as best sellers, in their order, and the rest are the models they build in the most versions. Most run the AXIS lock, a spring-loaded bar you draw back with either thumb, which is why they open and close one-handed either way. Ask about anything you do not see here.
Bugout
Manual folder
The knife that reset what a full-size folder is allowed to weigh. Under two ounces, and Benchmade’s number-one seller.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 1.8 oz
Osborne
Manual folder
Warren Osborne’s 940 — a reverse-tanto blade on a slim aluminum frame. The design most people picture when they picture a Benchmade folder.
- Blade
- Reverse-tanto
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 2.9 oz
Crooked River
Manual folder
A folding hunter with a long clip-point blade and aluminum-and-wood scales. Built to look like a fixed blade and fold like a pocket knife.
- Blade
- Clip-point
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 5.4 oz
PSK
Assisted folder
Spring-assisted, in MagnaCut, on carbon fiber and G10. The heaviest-specified folder on this list and priced to match.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 5.2 oz
Griptilian
Manual folder
The workhorse. Molded scales, a deep finger choil and a shape that has needed almost no changing since it launched. If you are buying one Benchmade to use, it is usually this.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 3.9 oz
Taggedout
Manual folder
A hunting folder pared back to the essentials — a long, thin blade meant for skinning, and a handle you can still work with cold hands.
- Handle
- Carbon fiber
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 2.4 oz
Mini Bugout
Manual folder
The Bugout taken down to an ounce and a half. Light enough that you stop noticing it is in the pocket at all.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 1.5 oz
Bailout
Manual folder
Built with aircrew and first responders in mind: a tanto point, an aluminum frame, and a glass-breaker on the butt end.
- Blade
- Tanto
- Steel
- CPM-S90V
- Weight
- 2.7 oz
Adamas
Manual folder
The heavy one. Thick blade stock and oversized hardware, designed around soldiers rather than pockets, and it feels like it.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Handle
- OD green G10
- Weight
- 6.5 oz
Mini Osborne
Manual folder
The 940 shrunk to two ounces. Same reverse-tanto silhouette, small enough to carry in a dress pocket without a printed outline.
- Blade
- Reverse-tanto
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 2.0 oz
Barrage
Assisted folder
Spring-assisted opening with a safety, in a frame sized for a full grip. The middle ground between a manual and an automatic.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Handle
- Black Valox®
- Weight
- 4.3 oz
Lowden
Manual folder
A front flipper on an aluminum frame — you push the tab with your thumb rather than reaching for a stud. The newest-feeling knife on this list.
- Blade
- Spear-point
- Handle
- Crater blue aluminum
- Weight
- 3.0 oz
Mini Griptilian
Manual folder
Everything the Griptilian does, an inch shorter and an ounce lighter. The one most people actually end up carrying of the two.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM-S30V
- Weight
- 2.8 oz
Freek
Manual folder
A straightforward flat-ground work knife with nothing clever about it, which is the point. Nothing to fuss over beyond keeping it sharp.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM-S90V
- Weight
- 4.1 oz
Full Immunity
Manual folder
A wharncliffe — a dead-straight edge to a fine point — on a light aluminum frame. Better than a curved blade at anything you cut against a flat surface.
- Blade
- Wharncliffe
- Handle
- Crater blue aluminum
- Weight
- 2.3 oz
Both models
Balisong
The butterfly knife is where the company started, and Benchmade currently lists exactly two. Both are here.
Necron
Balisong
A modern balisong on G10 handles with a scimitar blade. Fast, loud, and the closest thing the current line has to its own origin story.
- Blade
- Scimitar
- Handle
- Jade G10
- Weight
- 4.2 oz
Laro
Balisong
Titanium handles and a drop-point blade — the dressier end of the butterfly line, and noticeably quieter in the hand than the G10 version.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Handle
- Gray titanium
- Weight
- 4.4 oz
All 6 models
Water & Dive
Benchmade’s water line, complete. Every one of these is ground from CPM MagnaCut except the H2O — a steel chosen for salt water as much as for edge holding. The handles are Grivory or Santoprene rather than wood or micarta, for the same reason.
Adira
Manual folder · water
The waterman’s folder: a leash hole, a textured grip that works wet, and an AXIS lock that drains and dries. The one to hand someone who fishes.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 4.2 oz
Mini Adira
Manual folder · water
The Adira an inch shorter and an ounce lighter, which on a boat is the difference between carrying it and leaving it in the console.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 3.1 oz
Undercurrent
Fixed blade · water
A sheepsfoot fixed blade for line, rope and bait — the blunt nose is deliberate, so it does not find a thumb or a hull in a swell.
- Blade
- Sheepsfoot
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 5.4 oz
Intersect
Fixed blade · water
Two and a half ounces of fixed blade, meant to ride on waders or a pack strap and never be taken off.
- Blade
- Drop-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 2.4 oz
Fishcrafter
Fixed blade · fillet
A proper fillet knife — long, narrow and flexible, for deboning and cleaning. Benchmade builds it in three lengths; the seven-inch is the middle one.
- Blade
- 7″ trailing point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 2.9 oz
H2O
Fixed blade · dive
The dive knife: a blunt prying tip, a line-cutting hook in the spine and a Santoprene handle you can hold in a glove. Built to be used underwater rather than carried near it.
- Handle
- Black Santoprene®
- Weight
- 3.2 oz
All 3 models
Rescue
Blunt tips, hooks and glass-breakers — knives meant to cut someone free rather than to whittle. Benchmade’s complete rescue offering.
Triage
Manual folder · rescue
A blunt-tipped sheepsfoot blade, so it cuts a seatbelt without finding whoever is behind it. Also offered in a Tactical trim on the same frame.
- Handle
- Black G10
- Weight
- 5.3 oz
Auto Triage
Automatic folder · rescue
The Triage with an automatic opening, for a hand that is already holding something else. The version most first responders buy.
- Handle
- Aluminum & G10
- Weight
- 5.7 oz
SOCP Rescue Tool
Fixed · rescue
Not really a knife — a hook for cutting webbing and seatbelts, a carbide glass-breaker and an oxygen-tank wrench, on one skeletonized frame under two ounces.
- Blade
- Rescue hook
- Weight
- 1.9 oz
5 models
Fixed Blades
No pivot, no lock, nothing to maintain but the edge. Each of these ships with a sheath built for it.
SOCP Dagger
Fixed blade
A skeletonized dagger with a finger ring, made to stay in the hand while the hand is busy doing something else. Rides flat against gear in a MOLLE-compatible sheath.
- Blade
- Dagger
- Weight
- 2.1 oz
SOCP Fixed Blade
Fixed blade
The SOCP idea given a full handle and a longer blade. Same retention ring, considerably more knife.
- Handle
- Black G10
- Weight
- 5.8 oz
Anonimus
Fixed blade
A full-size belt knife with a broad flat grind and G10 scales. Sized for a pack or a belt, not a pocket.
- Handle
- OD green G10
- Weight
- 5.9 oz
Dacian
Fixed blade
A spear-point on micarta scales, ground from MagnaCut. Compact enough to wear on a belt every day rather than only in the woods.
- Blade
- Spear-point
- Steel
- CPM MagnaCut
- Weight
- 3.4 oz
2 models
Kitchen & Butchery
The same steel and the same tolerances, aimed at a game pole and a cutting board instead of a pocket.
Meatcrafter
Hunt · butchery
A long, thin trailing-point blade for breaking down game and butchering at home. Flexible where a hunting knife is stiff.
- Blade
- 6″ trailing point
- Handle
- Santoprene®
- Weight
- 3.2 oz
Chef Knife
Kitchen
An eight-inch chef’s knife out of the same shop as the folders. Same steel discipline, pointed at a cutting board.
- Blade
- 8″ chef
- Handle
- OD green G10
- Weight
- 7.4 oz
Not seeing it? We can get it
Benchmade runs these models in a moving set of handle colors, blade finishes and steels, and the limited runs do not come back. Anything on this page we can order, and plenty that is not. Call and we will tell you what is in the case today.
One version is shown for each model; Benchmade offers most of these in several handle materials, blade shapes and steels, and the specifications above describe the exact version pictured rather than the whole family. Weights are converted from the figures Benchmade publishes for that version. Blade and overall lengths are not shown — call the shop for the dimensions of a specific knife. “Most popular” folders means the models Benchmade currently flags as best sellers on its own site, followed by the models it builds in the most versions; it is not a ranking of what sells in this shop. Model counts describe Benchmade’s current catalog and change without notice. No prices, stock levels or online ordering — this page is a reference, not a catalog. Benchmade®, Bugout®, Griptilian®, Bailout®, Adamas®, Barrage®, Freek®, Taggedout®, Infidel®, Autocrat®, Phaeton®, Dacian®, SOCP®, Meatcrafter®, AXIS®, Grivory®, Valox®, Santoprene®, Necron™, Laro™, Lowden™, Full Immunity™, Adira®, Undercurrent®, Intersect®, Fishcrafter®, Triage®, Shootout®, Claymore®, Osborne®, Casbah®, Mediator®, Stryker®, Presidio®, Fact®, Bedlam®, Freek®, CF-Elite® and PSK™ are trademarks of Benchmade Knife Company, Inc. and its licensors. Product photography courtesy of Benchmade, used with permission as an authorized dealer.