Benchmade 486 Nakamura Saibu AXIS 3" CPM-20CV Folding Knife with G10/Cocobolo Handle

Saibu™, 細部, Japanese for details. The latest Seiichi Nakamura collaboration is the embodiment of the word. Windows within the handle, accented with Cocobolo wood, trick your eye at every angle. A bamboo-styled, metal backspacer catches and reflects light. The satin finished, high-ground, 20CV blade flows effortlessly into the handle, topped off with matched Cocobolo accented thumb studs. This knife is a showcase piece worthy of even the most discerning pocket.  Made in USA. 

• Designer: Seiichi Nakamura
• Mechanism: AXIS®
• Action: Manual-opening
• Blade Steel: CPM-20CV (58-60 HRC)
• Blade Length: 2.98"
• Blade Thickness: 0.11"
• Length: 6.79"
• Closed Length: 3.81"
• Handle Thickness: 0.48"
• Weight: 2.7oz

AXIS® A patented Benchmade exclusive, AXIS has been turning heads and winning fans ever since its introduction. A 100-percent ambidextrous design, AXIS gets its function from a small, hardened steel bar which rides forward and back in a slot machined into both steel liners. The bar extends to both sides of the knife, spanning the liners and positioned over the rear of the blade. It engages a ramped, tang portion of the knife blade when it is opened. Two omega style springs, one on each liner, give the locking bar it's inertia to engage the knife tang, and as a result the tang is wedged solidly between a sizable stop pin and the AXIS bar itself.