I like my Benchmade. Has magna cut steel. Spendy but good. A word of caution. My first Benchmade , or so I thought, came from Ebay, Thought I got a bargain. Lost a screw on the back side of the knife and ordered a couple new ones from Benchmade. They didn't fit so I thought the insert piece was stripped out. Contacted Benchmade and I had to send it to them for that part. Turns out it was a knock off and their policy was to scrap it. Which I totally understand. They did give me a 50 dollar rebate on a new knife from them so that is what I carry know. I thought that was very good of them. I was upset with them for not sending my other one back but I get it. The bad part is it was a good knife also. ATS 34 steel if I remember correctly. The stupid thing is if somebody is going to go to that much trouble to build a knock off, and a good one, why don't they just put their own name on it. I looked it over a lot before I bought it. After all that happened I did some more looking and the only difference was that piece that I lost the screw out of.