Kershaw Rainbow Leek - a pictorial review

[UnknownVT]

Originally posted by Trace Rinaldi
Ken gave my son one of the pre-production rainbow leek in Vegas a while back.. Lil Trace has been carrying it, and using the heck out of it ever since..
The finish still looks great, and all he has managed to do is round the point a bit..

Many thanks for that input - the Rainbow Leek won Blade Show 2002 Overall Knife of the Year - so the pre-production knife was pre-June/2002 just over a year old?

Can you see any scratches at all on the finish?

Thanks

 

[losangeles]

That rainbow leek looks awesome, UnknownVT. I might just get one myself.

I have a regular leek and love it. I just got a Camillus Heat from ebay and although I like that too, I am disappointed at not having a safety lock for when the blade is closed.

 

[UnknownVT]

That rainbow leek looks awesome, UnknownVT. I might just get one myself.
I have a regular leek and love it. I just got a Camillus Heat from ebay and although I like that too, I am disappointed at not having a safety lock for when the blade is closed.

Thank you for the input.

Safety should be a priority, first and foremost -

When I first got the Leek I tried various ways to open the Leek -
like dropping the knife - deliberately trying to make the knife fall on its index-open/flipper even actually throwing the knife to the ground (carpetted) - I even smacked the knife on on a pad of paper on the table on its flipper - but none of those ad-hoc tests managed to open the knife "accidentally" or otherwise.

So since I've owned the Leek I have not used its safety.
(However I can't comment on the Camillus Heat)

In the end use of the safety is an individual decision.

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