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Got this from newgraham.com for 75.00
http://www.kershawknives.com/productdetails.php?id=428&brand=kershaw
Good pictures can bee seen in this review.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=582564&highlight=jyd
I had been thinking about this knife for a while. I thought it was beautiful with the copper accent and blade/handle shape and the composite steel is a bonus.
Well, I got the knife and it is beautiful. First off it came in its own zippered pouch. Seems high class especially for what isnt exactly a gentlemens folder and isnt a very expensive knife.
The handle is great. There is no flex at all with the g-10 and full liners. the liners are thick too. The pocket clip is kind of odd but doesnt get in the way.
The action is smooth. Its not assisted and there are no thumb studs or holes. Its really made to flick using the blade that protrudes on the back side. I may loosen it just a hair to make the blade come out a little faster. I have to add a wrist flick to my index finger to open it fully. The lock is solid and the liner goes in behind the blade most of the way. An interesting feature I just realized is that this knife cant cut your finger. The reason is that the part of the blade you push on to flick it open prevents the blade from closing with your finger attempting to disengage the liner lock. The bulge serves as a guard and to protect your finger. The bulge does mean less edge length but it passes by the lock so the blade cant cut you while you are disengaging the lock.
The blade is beautiful with a nice curve and wide blade. It kooks like a good heavy duty knife. The blade is a little thinner than I would have expected and hoped for but i think it would still do heavy duty stuff well. The d2 edge should hold up well, im just hoping it isnt rust prone.
As you can see in the picture it has that nice pattern with the copper accent. But here is what I cant figure out.
The blade is made of two steels but they dont call it laminated or anything, they call it composite.... Since the blade appears to be colored to get the two tone effect I cant really see whether its laminated or not. To me it seems that rather than have multiple layers they may have fit the two steels together like a jigsaw pieces with the copper somehow filling inbetween like a mortar or something. It doesnt look like the copper accent is a liner going form top to bottom as you would expect in a laminated or damascus blade. The copper may also have been painted on or something like that. It calls it an accent so its unknown if that serves as anything but asthetic. If you follow the copper line it is like one line. It goes over the tip and under by the back of the blade which makes me think the two steels are put togetehr like a jigsaw. Plus if you look at the pattern it doesnt seem that the dark could be one steel and the light be a different. I dont think a laminated steel could provide that pattern, unless the coloring of the blade was not an indication of where the steels started and ended. It seems as if the two steels were cut with opposite patterns and then they just slid them inside each other. Does this make sense given the picture?
Maybe this is a known technique but ive never heard of it, maybe its the new wave of knife blades. But if im right about the jigsaw puzzle piece thing then im wondering if it would perform well under harder conditions.
http://www.kershawknives.com/productdetails.php?id=428&brand=kershaw
Good pictures can bee seen in this review.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=582564&highlight=jyd
I had been thinking about this knife for a while. I thought it was beautiful with the copper accent and blade/handle shape and the composite steel is a bonus.
Well, I got the knife and it is beautiful. First off it came in its own zippered pouch. Seems high class especially for what isnt exactly a gentlemens folder and isnt a very expensive knife.
The handle is great. There is no flex at all with the g-10 and full liners. the liners are thick too. The pocket clip is kind of odd but doesnt get in the way.
The action is smooth. Its not assisted and there are no thumb studs or holes. Its really made to flick using the blade that protrudes on the back side. I may loosen it just a hair to make the blade come out a little faster. I have to add a wrist flick to my index finger to open it fully. The lock is solid and the liner goes in behind the blade most of the way. An interesting feature I just realized is that this knife cant cut your finger. The reason is that the part of the blade you push on to flick it open prevents the blade from closing with your finger attempting to disengage the liner lock. The bulge serves as a guard and to protect your finger. The bulge does mean less edge length but it passes by the lock so the blade cant cut you while you are disengaging the lock.
The blade is beautiful with a nice curve and wide blade. It kooks like a good heavy duty knife. The blade is a little thinner than I would have expected and hoped for but i think it would still do heavy duty stuff well. The d2 edge should hold up well, im just hoping it isnt rust prone.
As you can see in the picture it has that nice pattern with the copper accent. But here is what I cant figure out.
The blade is made of two steels but they dont call it laminated or anything, they call it composite.... Since the blade appears to be colored to get the two tone effect I cant really see whether its laminated or not. To me it seems that rather than have multiple layers they may have fit the two steels together like a jigsaw pieces with the copper somehow filling inbetween like a mortar or something. It doesnt look like the copper accent is a liner going form top to bottom as you would expect in a laminated or damascus blade. The copper may also have been painted on or something like that. It calls it an accent so its unknown if that serves as anything but asthetic. If you follow the copper line it is like one line. It goes over the tip and under by the back of the blade which makes me think the two steels are put togetehr like a jigsaw. Plus if you look at the pattern it doesnt seem that the dark could be one steel and the light be a different. I dont think a laminated steel could provide that pattern, unless the coloring of the blade was not an indication of where the steels started and ended. It seems as if the two steels were cut with opposite patterns and then they just slid them inside each other. Does this make sense given the picture?
Maybe this is a known technique but ive never heard of it, maybe its the new wave of knife blades. But if im right about the jigsaw puzzle piece thing then im wondering if it would perform well under harder conditions.
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get stronger with practice -- I've found that lubing with Militec-1 makes a noticeable difference on these knives. And FWIW, there's nothing wrong with using a little wrist action when opening.