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I lucked out and made the list for the Kershaw ET Urban Camo passaround!
I'm a big Kershaw fan and have five of their knives in my collection, including a KAI Shun and some of the Ken Onion designed folders. I saw a video of the ET online last fall and was fascinated by the opening and closing mechanism. At first, I had a difficult time getting the knife to open and close like that video. Fortunately, the knife came with a CD that showed me how to make it work.
BTW, the CD is one of those mini CD's and it would not work on any of my slot loading Mac's. I then took it to work and tried it on a Dell running Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the latest version of Windows Media Player and the disk was not recognized by the computer. In fact, the system froze when I tried to access the drive. By this time I was desperate and tried it on a second Dell - IT WORKED! I'm willing to chalk up this experience as just bad luck, but I'm curious to hear how others on the passaround make out.
Anyway, the video on the CD was really cool. It briefly shows the Kershaw factory and all these robots grinding knifes in this super clean factory. It was so cool! Then it has a demonstration of several different ways to open the knife. As I said, before watching the video I was starting to wonder if the mechanism needed adjustment or something, but after seeing the video I learned that with proper technique it was easy and fun to do.
I liked seeing pictures of the ET online, but in person it seemed much larger and a little too "Klingon" for me. Maybe I'm being too self conscious about my knife obsession but I really feel that if I whipped that thing out around "normal" people someone would scream, "Hey look! That guy is a flaming knife freak!"
Appearances aside, It did feel good in my hand and I was able to get a very comfortable grip in a few different positions. Here's a picture that I took. I tried hard to get things lined up, but now I can see that the placement of the SAK was a little off, but you can get the idea.
I seriously considered putting this on my Christmas list, but after a week of fondling I'm glad that I didn't. It just wasn't for me, but I still consider it a very fine blade and hope that Kershaw will continue bringing innovative designs to the mass market.
I'm a big Kershaw fan and have five of their knives in my collection, including a KAI Shun and some of the Ken Onion designed folders. I saw a video of the ET online last fall and was fascinated by the opening and closing mechanism. At first, I had a difficult time getting the knife to open and close like that video. Fortunately, the knife came with a CD that showed me how to make it work.
BTW, the CD is one of those mini CD's and it would not work on any of my slot loading Mac's. I then took it to work and tried it on a Dell running Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the latest version of Windows Media Player and the disk was not recognized by the computer. In fact, the system froze when I tried to access the drive. By this time I was desperate and tried it on a second Dell - IT WORKED! I'm willing to chalk up this experience as just bad luck, but I'm curious to hear how others on the passaround make out.
Anyway, the video on the CD was really cool. It briefly shows the Kershaw factory and all these robots grinding knifes in this super clean factory. It was so cool! Then it has a demonstration of several different ways to open the knife. As I said, before watching the video I was starting to wonder if the mechanism needed adjustment or something, but after seeing the video I learned that with proper technique it was easy and fun to do.
I liked seeing pictures of the ET online, but in person it seemed much larger and a little too "Klingon" for me. Maybe I'm being too self conscious about my knife obsession but I really feel that if I whipped that thing out around "normal" people someone would scream, "Hey look! That guy is a flaming knife freak!"
Appearances aside, It did feel good in my hand and I was able to get a very comfortable grip in a few different positions. Here's a picture that I took. I tried hard to get things lined up, but now I can see that the placement of the SAK was a little off, but you can get the idea.
I seriously considered putting this on my Christmas list, but after a week of fondling I'm glad that I didn't. It just wasn't for me, but I still consider it a very fine blade and hope that Kershaw will continue bringing innovative designs to the mass market.
