Kershaw Blur, Whirlwind and Skyline Linerlock Test Review

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[video=youtube;61rntVl5_0Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61rntVl5_0Q[/video]
Just catching up on viewing videos when I saw something that really piqued my interest. The Late Boy Scout on Youtube was showing how his Kershaw Blur had "bit" him and how this occurred. As a heavy duty user of this knife, I immediately did some small impromptu tests and was unable to replicate what I had just seen.
Shortly after viewing his video, I was sitting outside prepping some fruit for a snack using my Kershaw Blur. It was while wiping juice onto my pant leg and making certain the blade was dry that it struck me. What was nagging me while watching that video. It was that my blade declared, "Made in USA."
I have to wonder, did Kershaw take a step back? was the blemish really a knockoff? No idea, but I am wondering.
Thankfully, he made that discovery without doing serious tissue damage.
 
I have had the Kershaw Scallion fail on me by doing the hand test. But, I couldn't make the Blur fail on mine. I think it has something to do with how Kershaw grinds the tang.
 
I have 2 Kershawguy blem Blurs. I am 240 pounds-I put the spine on the edge of my workbench and ass'ed into the knife and couldn't get either lock to budge. I think LBS is full of doo doo. I have carried a Blur for several years with hard use and ZERO issues.
Something isn't right with his story.
For the record I have the same black blem and a USA made olive drab.
 
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FWIW, have a S60V blur blem, an older Red-handled Blur, and a Skyline, am about 220 lbs, just tried what LBS did with his Blur and none of them budged but the Skyline does wobble a little (could not get it to fail though, maybe twisting the handle harder would work?).
 
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