Want a Custom Benchmade "Griptilian" or "Mini Griptilian?"

In my last post I discussed how much I love orange knives. Love 'em. I commented that I wish more knife companies produced orange scaled knives. Especially Benchmade. I would absolutely love a Benchmade "Mini Griptilian" in orange. Not to mention in a few other blade and steel types.

Well.......I must be living under a rock.

I woke up this morning and the first comment on my recent video (on YouTube) was by a user saying "just fyi mini grips come in whatever color you want. the benchmade website now has a custom tab!!!!"

What? When? Are you serious?! Hold the bloody phone this was news to me!

Now I've browsed the Benchmade site quite a few thousand times and in depth, but I never knew they did this. So I went back to the page and scoured it for at least an hour. Finally on their homepage under the "Services" tab they offer "Customize a Griptilian." Sweet tap dancing Jesus, I said.

The prices are excellent, by the way. $125 And $115 for the Griptilian and Mini Griptilian respectively. That price includes your choice of the following without additional fees...

• Color Scales (You can actually get mismatched colors if you want!). Coyote, OD Green, Yellow, Light Blue, Pink, Orange (Yes!), Purple, Royal Blue and Black.
• Plain or Half Serrated Edge.
• Your choice of Drop Point, Tanto or Sheep's Foot.
• 154CM Steel. (Additional Steels are offered at a modest cost. D2 $15, N680 $15 and SV30 $20).
• Axis Lock, Liner & Screw Colors. Your choice is either silver or black. You can mismatch these if you wish.
• Your choice of clip designs. Standard Black Enamel, Black Oxide, Split Arrow Silver, Split Arrow Black Oxide or no clip.
• You can also have a laser etched image and text inserted on both sides of the blade.

Amazing! You can basically create more than a dozen variations (So long as you select 154CM Steel) for a flat price of $125 and $115. That's in-freaking-credible. At the most you'll only shell out $145 if you select the Griptilian with SV30 Steel and $135 for the Mini Griptilian. That's pretty incredible for a knife of this quality. But of course these are custom. Currently they're only available in the U.S. and Canada. The manufacture and ship time is 3-4 weeks. Tough, but fair.

But still. For $140+S&H you can make an orange Griptilian with a half-serrated sheep's foot blade made of N680 (Similar to Spyderco's H1 Steel & Benchmade's X15. Salt Water Resistance.) and high visibility stainless steel silver pocket clip as a rescue knife. Take a look for yourself....

You can find the "Build a Grip" page here.

I gotta go find my credit card.....