Kershaw assist safety lockout

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MortallyWounded

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I just bought a Scallion for my ex-girlfriend (who happens to BE a Kershaw) for Christmas but I think I'm gonna take it back. I like the safety, but am afraid she might take it off because it sometimes gets in the way when closing it. Do any of the Onions have a lockout that prevents the safety from sliding up until the blade is closed?
 
Moved from Traditional (hey we are slipjoints and lockbacks over there ;)) to General where there will be more responses.
 
The safety can be tightened down so it won't move, or on some, it can be removed entirely. I honestly don't think the safety is a necessary feature. In fact, I consider it quite the opposite. The purpose of an assisted knife is so you can open the blade easily, quickly, and with one hand. A safety contridicts this purpose. Ditto for autos. I carried a Leek for quite a while and never had the slightest notion that it was unsafe without the safety. You can literally whack the flipper against a desk and the blade won't open. The flipper requires a different direction of pressure (radial instead of directly linear) to open.
 
It sounds like your safety lock is loose. The same thing happened to mine. I dropped a bit of loctite and tightened the screw a bit and it solved the problem. Now it takes some effort to lock and unlock the knife. Or you could just remove it all together.
 
Yea, I returned it to Wal*Mart and went over to Bass Pro for some other stuff. I saw a red Scallion there and asked if I could see it. The guy pulled one out of his pocket. "I use it for a boxcutter, great knife." The safety was nice and tight, and I finally noticed that it was plastic anyway, so it wouldn't damage the blade tip if it was closed on. So he pulled another one out for me, and I bought it. We got talking, and he claims that the Wal*Mart version is a second... which explains the weird finish and the GIGANTIC Kershaw logo, along with the horrible blueing of the clip, as well as the loose safety. Now I'm playing with it, and it isn't opening completely on its own. Perhaps a drop of oil will cure that.

I'm keeping this one though... my ex-girlfriend can wait for her birthday. Besides, that can give me time to have it engraved. Does anybody think Kershaw would mind if I used their logo to model her first name, so that it looked like it matched?

They need to release a much bigger version of this knife and call it the Vidalia. That would be sweet!
 
I really liked the lockout (and the rest of the knife for that matter) on the Buck Rush, its lockout was right next to the index release tang. Wow, I never thought I'd say that I liked a Buck. Still don't think it was worth $45.00 though. (page 12, Knives Illustrated, February 2006, speak of the devil!)
 
the buck rush does look nice, but it seems a tad overpriced compared to the leek. but back to the discussion, ive never heard of lock problems on the kershaws, maybe walmart carries subpar product
 
yea the rush is a cool little knife. the lockout works pretty efficiently and it dosent impede on closing.

but the lockout on the mini mojo is actually part of the trigger
(take a look at the trigger/finger guard in the pictures)

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