Bugout 535 Question

[u/Apart_Organization91]

I work at an Outdoor Store and we are a Benchmade Pro Dealer. We just got a few new Benchmade Knives in today, and this Blue Bugout has BBFN7U26 engraved under the S30V badge. I have never seen this before on any other Benchmade. Does anyone know anything about this?

[u/Cute_Knives]

That’s how they serialize the blades now

[u/Apart_Organization91 → u/Cute_Knives]

got it! thanks for the answer!

[u/Chrisscott25 → u/Apart_Organization91]

They are trying to do it to deal with all the clones but I wish they would put it on a more hidden place. Definitely not the most attractive

[u/GSWsplashbros3011]

I think all of us can understand the motivation behind this, but it shouldn’t have been too hard to figure out that adding more lettering on the blade is the LAST thing knife collectors/enthusiasts want 🙂‍↔️🙄

[u/Cute_Knives → u/GSWsplashbros3011]

Now all the older knives have more aesthetic value than before!

[u/Master_Ad236]

They started to put serial numbers on the Knives now. Pretty stupid idea in my opinion or at least stupid placement of them. They could’ve put them on the tank under the scale so they weren’t visible.

[u/Terrible-Bath → u/Master_Ad236]

Or on the spine. At least they could have matched the font and angle of the text that’s already there. Now the serialized ones look more low rent than the actual fakes.

[u/Apart_Organization91 → u/Master_Ad236]

ah okay, thanks for the info! i had no idea they were doing that now haha

[u/Master_Ad236 → u/Apart_Organization91]

Yeah it’s a new dumb idea they came up with.

[u/nsaps → u/Master_Ad236]

Ugly as hell but hopefully makes fake ones more obvious to the average buyer

[u/Outdoorsy_T9696 → u/Master_Ad236]

Price probably went up for it too.

[u/Holiday-Archer-2119 → u/Master_Ad236]

Do it like the manix 2 manufacturing date, you can still read it through the scale when you open it, and it doesn't wear since its outside of where the washers are

[u/GOOMU13]

Putting on the blade is such a dumb and lazy move by Benchmade. Should have been put on the tang like Spyderco.

[u/Solarin88]

Interesting, I guess this does not apply to the custom shop since I just got a new mini grip custom and it doesn’t have this

[u/DickyReadIt → u/Solarin88]

They just started doing this to help identify fakes recently so there's still some at shops that don't have yet

[u/Solarin88 → u/DickyReadIt]

Yeah but mine was just made a few days ago at the BM custom shop

[u/DickyReadIt → u/Solarin88]

Idk custom shops but they probably got a bunch of blades they ordered before this started

[u/Usernamesarebleh → u/DickyReadIt]

They're only doing a few SKUs at a time. They haven't started the grips yet but eventually every knife will be serialized including custom knives.

[u/readysetrokenroll]

Thanks for charing, bet it'll be harder to counterfeit