Hi folks, well, my Benchmade Bone Collector arrived today, the large model number
15020 plain edged with black G10 scales. As others have noted, it is a NICE knife, very solid feel.
Some may not like it's thicker handle style but it provides a pretty secure grip
with somewhat of a palm swell to the shape of the sales.

It has the Axis lock, which works very well, of course!
Solid lockup and smooth opening.
Has a thumb hole verses a thumbstud, which I really like as it doesn't get in
the way of sharpening or snagging on a pants pocket.

Pretty good guard area shape, with a slight rise on the spine as well so it's
like a double guard. with some grip cut into the steel liners, of course the
scales are deeply grooved, perpendicular to the handle and provide a nice feeling grip.

The clip also works pretty good, with the grooves in the scales, it helps retention
without tearing up your pockets.

The blade, it's made of D2 steel, would have liked to have seen CPM-D2 from
the reports of that compared to regular D2 but, D2 is no slouch and while it arrived
with a decent edge, I had to take it to the Edge Pro to polished them up to my liking.
That was a bit tricky to keep the manufactured bevels, didn't want to lessen
the angles just yet, so I had to raise the stones a lot higher to maintain the same
angles, ended up very nice and SHARP polished edges, slices through leather
with ease now!

NOW, the bit about modification, the blade shape is pretty unique, love the high
flat grind they apply, but wasn't overly happy with the way the blade came to
the tip, yeah, I know, I can't leave well enough alone, in less than an hour if
it's arrival, out to the shop to work on the blade shape

Now this is just my take on it, I'm sure there are MANY that LOVE how it arrives in the standard shape
but I like how this turned out and it seems to me to be a more useful point now.

This first image I borrowed from one of the other reviews, so thanks to marthinus, I should
have taken a Before shot, just in a hurry
Here is a Link to marthinus review, LOTS of good stuff in there, Check it out!!

here's how the blade arrived initially



I then took the blade to my 9" flat disc grinder rig, home made deal, and proceeded
to bring that spine down to meet the point in a sleeker way;







Now when I go to do some fine cutting with the tip, my thumb on the spine
of the blade, I feel I have a bit better control, than when it was a wider
thicker tip originally.

Overall, this is a superb folder and highly recommend it, even in it's original blade shape

After I reprofiled the blade I was slicing into some 1" by 4" wood and the thicker
handle provided a solid grip without any problems of it slipping or twisting in my hands.

Again, the change may not be for everyone, but, for me, it certainly made it a handier blade shape/point...

I also just did one other slight mod, to where the thumb slides down
to push open the blade, felt like they made that swoop using a ball end cutter,
so there is a pronounced curve upwards near the very edge, instead of being
a complete ramp down to the opening hole of the blade, so I too my dremel and
ground that ramp down where it should have been initially. On the opposite side
I didn't grind it as agressively, just softened the raised portion a little so it feels
better when gripped now.

G2

i got a mini on the way,i will post mine when it gets here,i like the hole on the grip..........

Talented man Gary, that looks great!

Beautiful knife! I have the mini bone collector, and i love the tip of the blade. How much is the edgepro?? What's the finest stone on it?

edge pro around $300........

Wow! I would have to order that online. Ill think about that

Thanks guys, the edge pro comes in a few types of kits
some with more stuff, some with less stuff
the one with the least stuff is about $150
the full shot one about $230
And you can buy extra stones as well as sticky
back tapes up to 7000 grit

The stones go from the following grits;
120
220
320
600
1000

with just those you can get a mirror polished edge
I then strop on some leather.
G2

Daniel, I've got the Edge Pro Apex 4 with the stones and tape, and it's one of the best sharpening systems to ever come along in my book. With practice, I can now get most knives sharp in 15 to 20 minutes. It's a good investment and makes it easy to keep a knife sharp...VERY sharp.

whoa! I think I like that better than factory. Very nice work!

Now it looks like a 556 blade with a hole in it.
I liked it better the way it came ... but still looks good though , very nice job.