Nick Chen went on, and filmed, a tour at the Benchmade factory in Oregon with Mike St. Clair, the Lead of Special Projects at Benchmade. Mike, a knife enthusiast reveals he has been at the company for 15 years and initially took a paycut and gave up the offer of a promotion to get a job making knives …

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