There are a few fellas here who are awful touchy. To a point where they cannot take a joke. When you go to the trouble of digging up out context quotes from another poster from a separate and older thread, it kinda means some one is touchy.
If the blade bore the S&W logo rather than Kershaws most here would dismiss it out of hand. That was the point of my joke.
So for those who demand it...a more measured critique of the DD folder from a non expert:
The OP has it right, this is a knife that looks like it's design is intended for self defense. It has a "tactical" or "intimidating" look to it. The name on the blade re-inforces that. Someone here likened it to an ice pick. The thin pointed blade has a dagger like look and so some one who believes that small daggers can make good defensive weapons could be attracted. It also looks "scary" because it doesn't look all that useful for anything else.
It's dagger like blade though makes it not so good for slashing or slicing and limits it's most damaging strikes to an ice pick like stab. Stabs with this blade type, to be most useful, have to be at close to a 90 degree angle and that is harder to do in the rough and tumble.
The blade shape makes it prone to getting stuck in an opponents jacket or coat, when trying to slice, and being unable to cut their way out as easily as other designs.
So, in my opinion, you have a knife intended for defensive purposes that is limited in that role by it's design.
The knife design though pretends that it can be something else by adding serrations. A semi serrated blade can be useful on a working knife on some jobs but I don't see the point on a knife designed for fighting which this blade clearly is. I leave aside the size of the blade question, that's another discussion.
As a general purpose utility knife? There are much better offerings available from Kershaw.
As a knife that can be used for defense? The Kershaw Blur or the Junkyard Dog II (knives I own and like) or other Kershaw offerings will do a better job at both slashing and stabbing and can be useful for something other than opening letters. Something which the DD knife could do well at.
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If the blade bore the S&W logo rather than Kershaws most here would dismiss it out of hand. That was the point of my joke.
So for those who demand it...a more measured critique of the DD folder from a non expert:
The OP has it right, this is a knife that looks like it's design is intended for self defense. It has a "tactical" or "intimidating" look to it. The name on the blade re-inforces that. Someone here likened it to an ice pick. The thin pointed blade has a dagger like look and so some one who believes that small daggers can make good defensive weapons could be attracted. It also looks "scary" because it doesn't look all that useful for anything else.
It's dagger like blade though makes it not so good for slashing or slicing and limits it's most damaging strikes to an ice pick like stab. Stabs with this blade type, to be most useful, have to be at close to a 90 degree angle and that is harder to do in the rough and tumble.
The blade shape makes it prone to getting stuck in an opponents jacket or coat, when trying to slice, and being unable to cut their way out as easily as other designs.
So, in my opinion, you have a knife intended for defensive purposes that is limited in that role by it's design.
The knife design though pretends that it can be something else by adding serrations. A semi serrated blade can be useful on a working knife on some jobs but I don't see the point on a knife designed for fighting which this blade clearly is. I leave aside the size of the blade question, that's another discussion.
As a general purpose utility knife? There are much better offerings available from Kershaw.
As a knife that can be used for defense? The Kershaw Blur or the Junkyard Dog II (knives I own and like) or other Kershaw offerings will do a better job at both slashing and stabbing and can be useful for something other than opening letters. Something which the DD knife could do well at.
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