My first Kershaw

[dipbait]

Actually my second. I have an Alaskan Blade trader that I dont use because the blades fall out.

I was looking for a small one hand opening pocket knife. Bought a S&W Little Pal. It lasted one week , the blade wouldnt stay tight and wouldnt lock. Its in the trash now.

The only thing WalMart carried that fit my criteria was the Chive 1600. Its my first AO knife. Thats a feature that Ill want from now on. Sharpness, I knew it would be sharp from my expierience with the Blade trader , where I went to shave hair off my arm and promptly cut a flap of skin off. This knife is the sharpest knife Ive ever had. I thought I could sharpen knives well, but I cant match this. I spent the night shaving my legs. Just couldnt stop .The hair just floated off. Its well built, solid , I think Im going to like it.

Three things I dont like. The looks, I think its ugly. The recurve blade, looks like a booger to sharpen . Finally, I want to remove the clip but dont have a bit that small.

Would someone tell me what steel it is? How hard it is? And whats the likelyhood of it opening up unintentionally, like in my pocket next to the femoral artery.

 

[tom19176]

post this in the Kershaw section......

 

[_habit_]

post this in the Kershaw section......

There's no reason this can't be posted here...


The knife has a safety right? It wont open in your pocket if you lock it, and even if it does (without the lock on of course), it wont open into your leg, it will open into the side of your pants. With my Leek, you really have to be trying to open it, to get the flipper to work correctly, because it's not a simple push forward, it's sort of push forward down and out.

I believe the steel is 420HC, but I couldn't tell you how hard it is.

And the bits on the pocket clip should be Torx #6. You can get a multi-bit Torx driver at Lowes for like $6, and it'll work for you on basically ever knife you buy in the future.

Congrats on the new knife!

 

[knarfeng]

_habit_ is correct. The steel is 420HC.

Kershaw does not publish their hardness specs, but this alloy can be as hard as 58HRC. A guesstimate would put the hardness at 56-58 HRC, and probably toward the top of that range.

Home Depot also sells a small torx set.