Kershaw ET experience

wudnme

wudnme

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Just got back from sportsmans warehouse. I had been reading and watching videos on the new Kershaw ET. This knife looked very cool , and I was mentally and financially prepared to buy one. In my opinion one-handed opening is a must on a folder. I was handed the ET and was very exited about what I thought was my next knife purchase. Out of the 4 or 5 times which I opened the knife , I cut my little finger twice. What attracted me to this knife was the video in which the person held the back of the knife and used his pinky for a one-handed open. I will mention that I do have large hands. (and you know what they say about guys with big hands- they wear big gloves). I'm sure with some practice this can be done without cutting yourself, but as for now it is more trouble than I want to fool with. If you go look at one please be careful of your finger placement when closing it.
 
wudnme i work in a knife store and i had similar experiances for the fist 2-3 times i played with that kinfe. it is quite doable but it is especialy hard for large handed people. personally i would suggest against getting the ET IMO it was designed as a "hey look what i can do" engineering wise and didnt have a lot of usabliity in mind during the design process.
 
I have small hands, wasn't even trying to be fancy, and it cut me too. Tried and tried to like it, but failed miserably!
 
I agree that you need to be careful of your finger placement when using the pinkie method. I couldn't even do that technique until my knife loosened up some. My favorite methods of one handed opening with this knife are the tried and true "Spyderco drop" or I just thumb it open with the carabiner type clip. It's cetainly an interesting design and has a very high cool factor, but in all honesty I don't carry mine much.

Take care, Heath.
 
There are two very safe and easy one handed opening methods, one is to just use your thumb to slide the blade up; the other method is to hold the blade between finger and thumb and just jerk it upwards (sometimes referenced as "spider drop"). Actually a third method is to hold it tip up and just jerk it down and up and the blade will flip down.

If you want to play around with the toggle then that's going to take practice, but only 2 minor cuts here so far when closing it.

Overall it's pretty cool and actually can be a good edc.
 
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