![]() ![]() ![]() When it is activated while open, it prevents the blade from closing, acting as a secondary, manual, lock. The Emissary's safety is rather clever, however. With that particular knife, if the safety was engaged while the blade was opened, it would prevent full closer of the knife, potentially allowing it to open while in the user's pocket. The only assisted knife that has deployed in my pocket, the Kershaw Leek, was one with a safety. I'm also not a fan of safeties in general. Gentle rubbing with a Scotch-Brite pad removed the goop, but also removed a little bit of the texture/grip from the handle (this wasn't a visible change, however it could only be felt). It appeared as though someone had done a bad job loctiting the clip, since there was a lot of hard goop around the screw holes near the clip. This knife can be de-assisted, however, and if you're into assists, the Emissary functions exactly how you'd expect an assisted knife to operate. At worst, it makes the knife difficult to close with one hand. At best, it provides minor assistance in opening. I feel like assists are a band-aid fix a lot of cheaper knives utilize to skate around having smooth deployment. ![]() It slices like a razer, and the short width of the blade gives it extreme mobility while slicing. In fact, I feel like I was able to put the sharpest edge on this knife of any I own, although it could be the excellent blade shape. I feel as though this knife took quite a nice edge, however, once I sharpened it myself. I also believe that Benchmade provides a free sharpening service (although I'm not sure I'd trust them to sharpen my knives, seeing what comes out of their factory). I should note that I own many Benchmade knives and that in general their factory edges seem satisfactory (though never great), with this specific knife possessing by far the worst edge. That may well be so, but the product I received (in late 2013) had an unsatisfactory edge, and as a consumer buying a $170 product, I shouldn't have to roll a dice and hope I get a newer factory model. I've seen on various knife forums that many earlier Benchmade knives have bad factory edges, and that the issue has since been corrected by Benchmade. For a knife of this price (now listed at ~$170), this is unacceptable, and severely detracted from my enjoyment of this product. It was coarse, uneven, and so shallow that I could barely see it. This knife had literally the worst relief edge I've ever seen on any knife of any price. Since I think other reviewers have done a good job highlighting the positives of this knife, I'm going to focus on the negatives in my review, and will hopefully help you in making an informed purchase of this (expensive!) product. Overall, it's a great knife for the reasons other reviewers have mentioned. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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