Does this make you worry?

Never been a Kershaw fan except for liking a simple looking lockback a friend once had. They remind me of Meyerco type stuff, made for mall ninjas.
 
hiwa said:
Never been a Kershaw fan except for liking a simple looking lockback a friend once had. They remind me of Meyerco type stuff, made for mall ninjas.
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I've had a couple Kershaw folders--they have been excellent performers. One was a bit like a Buck 110. That knife saw some very rough use and came through only a little worse for wear.

Edit: Had to dig up the above referenced Kershaw. I bought this knife in 1985. The tip has been....'re-profiled'...but it is shaving sharp and rock solid. (Actually, after a quick tune on a water stone, it's now scary sharp.) This knife comes apart with a couple Allen wrenches, and is dead simple to clean/maintain. I'd put this knife up against a Buck 110 any day. My point being that Kershaw used to make a quality knife back in the day:

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Someone at Kershaw must have thought it was a good idea. Then, when they sobered up in the morning, they asked "I authorized what?"
 
This is why companies shouldn't have "Take Your Kids to Work Day."

Absolutely hideous.
 
Yet another outlandish knife design to try to stimulate sales in an artificial market, by making something 'different'.:thumbdn:
 
jackknife said:
Yet another outlandish knife design to try to stimulate sales in an artificial market, by making something 'different'.:thumbdn:
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I'll bet they sell a billion of them on that late-night home shopping channel knife show.


Wait - Correction: I'll bet they sell a billion Frost Cutlery knock-offs of that knife on that late-night home shopping channel knife show.
 
looks Dark-ops-ish to me. lol!
Designed not to be held, not to cut, but to be merely hung like a trophy in the rec-room of mall-ninjas everywhere!
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I can't say that I love all of kershaw's designs. Buy they do make very good, made in the USA, knives. I have a Skyline that is a fantastic pocket knife (the fact that they only cost $40 is gravy!). And while I'm nervous about D2 in a chopper, I've been eyeballing an Outcast. Now I have no use for the knife that this thread is about at all. But Kershaw still makes some good knives at affordable prices.

Brandon
 
I could scarcely believe it when I went to the Kershaw booth at SHOT this year...it was like someone had junk-punched their design team or something! The only new pieces that they unveiled at the show were the Zing and Packrat (which had been floating around for a while at that point, so they weren't really "new") and THAT abomination. How that got past the concept stage is WAY beyond me. :barf:
 
Rotte said:
I'd put this knife up against a Buck 110 any day. My point being that Kershaw used to make a quality knife back in the day:

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I think that they still make a quality knife, but with the aparition of the Whiplash and Ripcord it seems they are straying into Dark Opps / Tacticool territory.
 
jackknife said:
Yet another outlandish knife design to try to stimulate sales in an artificial market, by making something 'different'.:thumbdn:
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That's roughly my take on it too. In the last month, from the sublime to the ridiculous:

Boker Gentle Folder in Ivory Micarta and 154 CM. I like the look of this and really like the little ATS 34 Boker I have that fits in my suits, so we could have had a deal. But what's that PVD crap doing on the blade, who needs it, why does 154 CM in particular need it. Deal breaker. Although it isn't Ninja black paint, or senior citizens See Of Beige paint, or Hate Me Ginger paint, it's just an abomination. Mirror polished they could have taken £150 off me for that. Damned if I'm paying the £200 asked for it to have that on it.
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Then I saw this, the Cold Steel Spartan. WTF! I'll accept that the above could be somewhat a matter of taste as well as function, and accordingly a bit subjective, but this... Words nearly fail me. I find the grip of a knife extremely important too, but some bright spark decided that for a really good grip it would be a natty idea to look to “the Kopis of the ancients”. And this is what spewed forth. The horror. What's it for, cutting wearing huge bungle mittens, boxing gloves. Somebody somewhere must need a handle shaped like this or they wouldn't sell, would they?
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That Kershaw Whiplash has got to take the crown though for the current crop of daft ideas by otherwise respected companies. It's a real shocker. I just don't get the genius behind sticking a Nimravus type blade on that sort of handle. It makes no sense. The whole thing is compromised because of the lanyard and that daft pull tab release mechanism. I guess some marketing gimmicks are just more subtle. And its got that goofy PVD on it, and it doesn't look like its good for polishing turds either.
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