
Have been going through an ongoing search to find the smallest, most effective knife that fits my particular hand to fulfill the edc role. Just picked this little guy up today: the Kershaw Ken Onion Blackout 1550 Here's the info from the Kershaw website - Key Features: Speedsafe opening. Stainless steel design polyamide handle Product Description: This Kershaw Ken Onion Blackout, Model 1550, has a ti-nitride coated 440A stainless steel 3.25 inch blade with a black polyamide handle. The Speed-Safe torsion bar allow this knife to be opened with one push. When closed this 3.5 oz Kershaw knife is 4.5 inches long. Technical Specs: 440A ti-nitride coated stainless steel blade black polyamide handle 3.25 inch blade 4.5 inch closed length weighs 3.5 oz The main question for me is how the 440A steel is going to wear over time compared to some of my other knives with higher grade steels. I highly doubt that I put the kind of wear on a knife that will be required to actually see a difference in the steel, but time will tell. As noted in this vid, I've been dealing with some fine, micro chipping on my Spyderco Perrin PPT which has an S30V blade. That actually caught me off-guard as I put my knives through moderate use at best: no hard use, hard-surface, dressing game, etc, so I'm surprised it's chipped so easily. Anyone else have this issue with their S30V blades??? That further illustrates the notion that maybe the blade steel isn't all THAT important in the "moderate use" category <b>...</b>
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