🦋Benchmade 533-3 Mini Bugout Folding Knife

🦋Upgrade your EDC with the Benchmade 533 Mini Bugout—where precision meets portability.

By now, the praises of the Mini Bugout have been sung far and wide. It’s wonderfully small and pocketable, virtually the perfect size for an EDC knife. It has a 2.63-inch blade (which keeps you legal just about everywhere you go) and it’s 3.7 inches closed.

The standard stamped deep carry clip provides the ideal amount of retention and keeps the Mini Bugout riding low, virtually disappearing in your pocket.

Also adding to the Mini Bugout’s EDC greatness is the fact that it weighs a mere 1.62 oz. That’s amazingly light. It’s accomplished thanks to the Grivory (thermoplastic) scales Benchmade uses that have no liners. Instead, they’re molded with an internal grid design that gives them strength and rigidity.

As you’d expect from a Benchmade knife, the 533 has the classic (and now much-copied) Axis lock, one of the greatest knife lockups in the history of knife design.

The Mini Bugout is also slim and feels great in the hand. The scales have molded-in texturing that keeps them secure in your hand even when wet. And the classic drop point blade is perfect for just about any job you’ll want your EDC knife to do.

The S90V blade comes razor-sharp out of the box, retains an edge well, and isn’t terribly hard to sharpen after a lot of use. It slices beautifully and does a good job of resisting corrosion.

The American-made Mini Bugout isn’t inexpensive. And this is a pocket knife that you can and likely will carry every day of your life. You’ll use it, you’ll love it, and you’ll hand it down to one of your lucky offspring.

Specifications: 

Blade Length: 2.63 inches
Blade Steel: CPM S90V
Blade Thickness: 0.78 inch
Open Length: 6.3 inches
Folded Length: 3.7 inches
Lock: Axis
Scales: Grivory thermoplastic
Weight: 1.62 oz