Inc. The word “Bali-Song” sat perfectly in a butterfly logo, just as “Benchmade” does today. Regardless, you will almost certainly visualize an exceptionally designed and constructed pocket knife or ...

Perhaps only superfans know that Benchmade’s original name was, believe it or not, Bali-Song. Sorta makes sense, inasmuch as the very first product founder Les de Asis made was, you guessed it, a ...

However, due to the stigma around butterfly knives, few were being made in America at the time. An entrepreneur at heart, Les picked the name Benchmade to represent the quality he wanted put into ...