Shopping for a fixed blade knife presents a huge hurdle: There are over 10,000 options on just one of the online knife retailers. Of course, that includes all color and steel variants for a given ...

The Benchmade Dacian ($320 ... In my opinion, this is the first fixed-blade knife specifically aimed at the pocket market ...

These days, Benchmade sells a lot more pocket knives and fixed blades than it does butterfly knives. But boy, does Benchmade make its butterflies count, in a way that would surely make Les proud.