They're ok. Certainly not in the same league as Benchmade, but a decent EDC knife.
Ditto, the original Sog Recon was a very nice copy of the original Vietnam Sog knife, better actually in quality than the original probably.
I have many SOGs. They do the job and they are well made, but as @Bassbob has said, they are definitely not in the same league as Benchmade.
I remember those, a neat lil blade. Those are one of the things i always thought of when I saw a story about Executive/overseas kidnap Protection items.
There are exceptions to every generalization and I would say that there are certainly some Benchmades that are nicer then some Spydercos and some Microtechs. But IMO the trend with Benchmade has been lower quality and higher price since they went factory direct to dealers some years ago. I have had some gold class BM's that are very very nice. But the general production stuff is getting too expensive for what it is. I can still get Spyderco, Microtech and ZT at wholesale but only about 30% off BM; and even disregarding the better price I think most of the models from BM are a bit lower in quality, strength and design than the others. That said I still own probably ten BM's but some have been disappointing at their price point. For instance in a small light lockback I found the Bugout line to be expensive and not as nice as many similar models. Some of the others were more expensive and some were less but almost all of these were better knives.
Very nice collection .
Well a personal preference thing I reckon. I like the Bugout a lot and have a couple of them. The axis lock is a superior system and S30v and CruWear are two of my favorite steels. I probably have about 10 Benchmades ranging from the $350-$150 range and I like them all. My Microtech UTX85 ( M390) is a great knife too, but other than their OTFs I’m not impressed with their line. And nothing from Spyderco excites me.
Barrage is a really nice knife. I like mine a lot.
