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K.T.N
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Dec 5, 2018
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I’m glad to see these Kershaw knives again on Massdrop. It’s been a while since I’ve seen them here. The Knockout form factor is a good knife. Solid choice for EDC. There are two things that keep it from being a great knife for me, however. One is that while the scales are patterned, enhancing gripability, they are very flat. This flatness doesn’t give the handle a very hand filling feel. The second is that countour of the back of the knife, and the finger groove, kind of locks your grip into a specific position. It basically locks your hand into a fist type grip. This, combined with the flat and high handle, makes it difficult to manipulate the knife with the fingers. It feels like you’re locked into a certain vertical cutting grip, and that it’s hard to twist the knife on axis to do more intricate angled cuts. So not a perfect handle, IMO, but still a very good knife. The version I have is the limited production Elmax version that dropped here several years ago. What is this Damascus steel, by the way? Is it real Damascus, with the benefits of the multi-layered folding? Or is it just a gimmick to make you think that’s what you’re getting? It seems like whatever benefits genuine Damascus steel conferred in the past would be matched or superceded by today’s modern steels. But I don’t know.
Dec 5, 2018
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Jun 21, 2019
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K.T.Nkershaw uses alabama damascus, which is really quite decent - and it is NOT stainless, this is old fashioned carbon steel damascus which will rust if allowed the usual formula for the kershaw damascus from alabama is: Material = (4) layers 5160, (3) layers 203E, (3) layers 52100, (3) layers 15N20 folded 5 times for 416 layer damascus
Jun 21, 2019
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