I use to be a Benchmade man, they have and still do from time to time make the best Bali songs (Butterfly Knives) on the planet. While they use to be strictly american made knives, Several years ago they began making some of their knives in China a lot of vendors, including Smokey mountain knife outlet dropped their line completely due to this.
The older Benchmades in my opinion were some of the best built knives ever made, They started this color class crap a while back, anyway a diver out here just sold one of my guys a RED class 10350, for $75.00 when he told me that he was buying a NIB Benchmade spring assited knife for $75.00 I thought he was getting a great deal
This knife is a piece of Crap compared to the older ones that I have owned. I think it was the dumbest move that company ever made when they decided to put their name on Cheaply made inferior knives, sorry I just had to Rant