Benchmade has just released a brand new fixed blade, out the blue (pun intended). This is the Dacian, afixed blade with a utilitarian blade shape and everyday carry dimensions.
Most Benchmade fixed blades fall into dedicated niches: outdoors tools, tactical blades, kitchen knives. The Dacian, by contrast, expressly targets everyday carry needs, a fixed blade alternative for a role more commonly the domain of folders. It certainly delivers in terms of specifications with a practical spear point blade, most of which’s 3.54-inch length is a gradual curve out to a pierce-capable, elongated tip. Chunky jimping topside along the spine provides multiple places for indexing during detail-intensive matter separation – always a consideration in a daily cutter.
In bringing us the Dacian, Benchmade also took the opportunity to add another helping of MagnaCut to their lineup. They recently also brought it to a company classic the the burnt bronze Osborne models, and it was a selling point on the new PSK folder; it’s also the featured steel in the Benchmade’s Water Series. Needless to say CPM MagnaCut fits the EDC job description like a glove, with a performance readout that, not to too put too fine a point on it (again, pun intended), has set the bar for current-gen knife super steels.
Handle-wise, we’ve got a variant on the classic bracket profile, with a straight back spine, a swell on the bottom side, and more of that extra large jimping around the butt end – which is where we see the lanyard hole, shaped like a hex driver. The scales are Micarta, either a blue denim flavor or brown canvas – if you go with the later, you also get a dark blue titanium nitride-coated blade. Both Dacians come with a pocket clip-equipped Kydex sheath, helping drive home the EDC fixed blade concept.
This one is available right now.
Knife in Featured Image: Benchmade Dacian
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