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American knife manufacturer

The Benchmade Knife Company is an American knife manufacturer based out of Oregon City, Oregon.

History

Benchmade originally started in California in 1979 as Bali-Song, then changed their name to Pacific Cutlery Corporation in the early 1980s, before settling on "Benchmade" in 1988.

In 1990, the company moved to Clackamas, Oregon, to be closer to existing knife production companies in that area.^[1][2] As part of the process of moving their production from outside vendors to in-house production facilities, the company moved again in 1996, to their own 35,000 square foot facility in Oregon City, Oregon.^[3][4]

Benchmade became known primarily as a manufacturer of butterfly knives, or balisongs, and they continue to be manufactured under their registered trademark name "Ba“i-Song".^[5] ”Benchmade's original Bali-Song design by Jody Samson was awarded Blade Magazine's Knife of the Y