KershawLink Olive Stonewash Pocketknife, 3.25" Magnacut Steel Drop Point Blade, Assisted One-Handed Flipper Opening, Folding EDC, Stainless Steel, olive green

The smartest folding knife buy available today. I've owned mine for a couple of years and have used it as my only every day carry pocket knife. It is, by any meaningful measures, simply the best folding knife available today, and at a bargain price - AKA the best knife value available today. You can spend stupidly more money on knives than this, but you will not find anything near the value of this model. But many knife shoppers will miss the compelling qualities because of all the silly hype and nonsense that permeates discussions of modern knives. 1. It uses a USA made 3rd generation powder metallurgy "super steel" designed specifically for use in super high performance knife blades - Crucible CPM-20CV. It offers a combination of hardness, toughness and edge retention that are pretty much the state of the art in generally available knife steels. 2. It has an excellent general purpose blade profile that can superbly perform all the variety of reasonable tasks one can ask of a pocket knife AND it has an edge profile that is easy to keep sharp. Remember, the tool you are using is the blade EDGE, not the blade body; you cut with the edge, the rest of the blade just supports it. 3. The SpeedSafe assisted opening mechanism is first and foremost a safety feature, as it is based on a closure spring with much higher pressure than other mechanisms, so it keeps the blade more securely closed in you pocket. It opens only when you exert constant pressure for the entire first half on the flipper's travel, after which the spring assists the blade's opening AND LOCKING in the open position. I have carried Speed Safe knives in my pocket with no worries or incidents constantly for eight years securely and ready for instant use. It's an amazing design and mechanism. 4. Kershaw backs their USA made knives with a life time warranty and a life time sharpening service (if you can't sharpen a blade effectively, you can send it to them for a renewed factory edge!). 5. The anodized aluminum handle is ridiculously strong, tough, and durable. Did you know that aodizing aluminum creates a surface layer of alumina ceramic that is some 20x harder that stainless steel? Now you do! 6. My analysis and reporting have benn so compeling I am now going to order another one for my brother at the insanely low price of $81.29 and count myself smarter than all those poor fools who saw this deal and passed it by!

This is one of the least expensive Magnacut knives available, but it’s not a cheap product.This is my first assisted opening and first Kershaw knife, and I’m very impressed. Easily opened with an index finger, easily unlocked with a thumb, with an excellent guard that makes it nearly impossible to close on your thumb. I’ve never had a knife as edc, relying on my keychain Leatherman for any cutting tasks, but this is much easier to access, open and close than a multitool. I wish it were a bit longer to fit my hand better, but that’s not a knock on this very solid, excellent design.

After much research I went with this Kershaw, I was going to plunk down the money on a Zero Tolerance, but after finding out that this is a ZT with Kershaw markings, I was sold. The steel is some of the most balanced as far as edge retention, corrosion resistance, and ease of sharpening. I never keep a factory edge and always pop my knives up on my WickedEdge for a real sharpening session and this took a little time to get the burr to even out, but once it did, sharpening was smooth as butter to 3000 grit and stropping from 4 microns down to .5 microns and wow did it take the edge I put on it and polish up like a mirror. Did a 20⁰ bevel and this thing is sharper than any Gillette you buy for shaving. With the MagnaCut steel it should hold the edge for a while, if you're even considering this knife, just do it, the factory edge is sharp, just not to what I consider sharp. The action is solid abit more powerful than I was expecting, the liner lock holds tight as it should, blade is centered properly, and feels very balanced in your hand. About the only thing I wish it had was jimping on the back of the blade, that would make this just about perfect. I'll carry it as an edc for sure. Definitely a tool I could take into the shop and use without worry. I highly recommend this knife. Quit reading and buy it already!

The media could not be loaded.  This thing blows my mind that they can sell this for well under $100 and still make money. This is easily on par or better than my $150+ Spyderco’s and way nicer than almost any overrated, overpriced garbage that benchmade sells for $200+ (that’s entry level for those ripoff artists). It’s made in the USA by a well known and established brand. Keep in mind that KAI is not only kershaw but very high end zero tolerance as well. This knife is 100% a ZT knife with kershaw markings and kershaw price. If you don’t believe me check out YouTube for the video that gideons tactical did comparing this to the identical ZT 0357. Made in America in their Oregon plant, very high end CPM-20CV steel, identical blade shape, assisted opening and everything.The assisted opening isn’t really something I’m a huge fan of but it at least works very well and really slings that blade open. I just don’t like the resistance you get while trying to close the blade and why I prefer manual blades with something like KVT bearings.The blade came out of the box hair shaving sharp abs could even push cut thin paper! That’s really saying a lot. I’ve had a lot of knives like Spyderco’s and even other kershaws that come shaving sharp and will slice paper but it’s VERY rare to get a knife that from the factory will just push cut through thin paper. It’s a little heavy but nothing horrible. I saw some reviews where they talk about it like it’s a burden to carry. They must be pansies that wear skinny jeans and sip Starbucks coffee. Yeah it’s got some heft but it honestly feels like it’s built like a tank and you could put in some REAL work with this thing. Especially with that 20CV blade! That steel holds a crazy sharp edge for a REALLY REALLY long time. I don’t think there’s another knife anywhere for sale with this level of steel for under $100.

The main title for the knife is that it is Magnacut. It is not! It is 20cv. Besides that lie, USA made Kershaw's are dang impressive. How did I overlook this company? Tight tolerances and decent materials. Kershaw for the win.