2x Kershaw Cryo Speed Safe Folding Knives $44 + Free Shipping (expired)

Quote from zigzagzig : I appreciate the valuable feedback. I decided to pull the trigger on this one seeing as how I doubt I can get a better knife for $22. Split the order with my neighbor and we're both happy. I just hope the edges aren't too sharp. If they are, I'm hoping I can sand them down a bit possibly...

"Sharp is safe. Dull is dangerous." [google.com]

Why would you want to intentionally dull a knife ever? The sharper the knife, the less force required and lower chance of it slipping and injuring you.

Fascinating discussion! I have to admit, as a conservative millennial, seeing a conceal-carry pistol doesn't bother me, but seeing someone whip out a tactical knife does make me more twitchy. The only reason I can think is the personality of the carrier. Gun owners who invest the time and money to carry a handgun tend (in my limited experience) to be more respectful and subdued. I don't get a show-off vibe from them.

Knife owners tend--again, a generalization--to be a little looser with their weapon/tool. Perhaps because it costs them much less to carry a knife, some of them don't take it as seriously...and in some ways, they shouldn't, because it's not as lethal of a weapon as a Sig Sauer 9MM with 12+1 rounds. But it still appears to be two vastly different cultures.

Feel free to open fire (figuratively, of course!). I did appreciate the perspectives given that challenged my preconceptions of owning pocket knives. Maybe I will pick up a Kershaw and experiment with carrying it.

How often to sharpen? Recommended sharpening tool?

FYI the company provides free sharpening [kaiusaltd.com] - customer pays to ship knife to them, company pays to ship it back.

As someone mentioned, it's $10 off of $50 so I'm having a tough time deciding

1 Kershaw Ken Onion

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...PDKIKX0DER

or 2 of the Kershaw Cryos....

Any thoughts?

Btw, Thanks OP!

Quote from z32tt : I need to know this as well. Can I shave my ass with it?

Probably. These things are usually pretty sharp out of the box. You may want to be careful using such a sharp knife so close to your brain, though.

Quote from Strmtrper6 : "Sharp is safe. Dull is dangerous." [google.com] Why would you want to intentionally dull a knife ever? The sharper the knife, the less force required and lower chance of it slipping and injuring you.

He was referring to the reports from some that the steel handle on the Cryo has uncomfortably sharp grind lines/edges.

Quote from tangcoral : self defense or compact utility knife?

Yes..

Quote from gigaboom : He was referring to the reports from some that the steel handle on the Cryo has uncomfortably sharp grind lines/edges.

I completely missed that part of the conversation. Thanks.

On that note, I didn't have any issues with mine.

Quote from BeefPho : As someone mentioned, it's $10 off of %50 so I'm having a tough time deciding 1 Kershaw Ken Onion http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...PDKIKX0DER or 2 of the Kershaw Cryos.... Any thoughts? Btw, Thanks OP!

I'm a huge fan of the Blur's, I have quite a few different combinations of them. I'm not knocking the Cryos, I've never used it.

I picked up a desert sand / black Blur with the tanto combo blade; http://www.amazon.com/Kershaw-Oli...rshaw+blur

$53.40 shipped is a solid deal in my book and desert sand is one of the only colors I don't have yet. Well, that and the $140 Snap On edition with the lime green.. I wants.

Quote from Strmtrper6 : Celery, obviously not, but that isn't really a fair comparison. Back when we invented tools, I'd bet they were used more/first for killing/cutting up animals rather than other people(though they both occurred).

Stabbin animals be violent, yo.

Quote from gigaboom : Respectfully disagree. The first tools that could reasonably be called "knives" were (as far as we know) shards of glass-like rock, usually very small and always very brittle.. they were effective cutting tools for millions of years while clubs, and later axes and spears, bows and arrows were still much, much more effective weapons. Take a look at the kit carried by "Otzi" the "Iceman", some 9,000 or so years ago, comparatively recent but still stone age, he had a fully developed bow and arrow and a copper axe but the flint knife he carried was very tiny, obviously not intended as a weapon. Millions of years of stone knives were just too fragile Some here think I know because I was there... As for chicken vs. egg, there's not much paradox there. Since anything chickens might have evolved from had already been oviparous for millions of years, the first thing arguably a chicken certainly came from an already highly-evolved egg.

Touche. But they did have the weapons. What do you think came first, utilitarian tool or weapons to minor destruction?

Quote from BeefPho : As someone mentioned, it's $10 off of $50 so I'm having a tough time deciding 1 Kershaw Ken Onion http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009VCA1M/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER or 2 of the Kershaw Cryos.... Any thoughts? Btw, Thanks OP!

go with the ken onion, it sits pretty nicely in the hand, is larger than other pocket knives and feels sturdier

thanks to SD i've accumulated a few pounds worth of Ka-Bar, Kershaw, Buck, Gerber, Leatherman, Swiss Army, Wenger and other knives. must resist!!!

Quote from BeefPho : As someone mentioned, it's $10 off of $50 so I'm having a tough time deciding 1 Kershaw Ken Onion http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...PDKIKX0DER or 2 of the Kershaw Cryos.... Any thoughts?

I have had and loved the Blur as well, can't go wrong with that, but went for 2 instead of one this time. I actually got a Cryo and a RJI (because i like tanto & serrated). For $40 shipped, I'm happy.

Quote from aclonedsheep : Does anyone know the totality of knives that this promo applies to? Apparently its good for the leek as well. The black one is just under $50 so you'd still have to buy two to get the promo :/

I was able to get the discount when I bought a Skyline and a Chill

Quote from zhamilton05 : Fascinating discussion! I have to admit, as a conservative millennial, seeing a conceal-carry pistol doesn't bother me, but seeing someone whip out a tactical knife does make me more twitchy. The only reason I can think is the personality of the carrier. Gun owners who invest the time and money to carry a handgun tend (in my limited experience) to be more respectful and subdued. I don't get a show-off vibe from them. Knife owners tend--again, a generalization--to be a little looser with their weapon/tool. Perhaps because it costs them much less to carry a knife, some of them don't take it as seriously...and in some ways, they shouldn't, because it's not as lethal of a weapon as a Sig Sauer 9MM with 12+1 rounds. But it still appears to be two vastly different cultures. Feel free to open fire (figuratively, of course!). I did appreciate the perspectives given that challenged my preconceptions of owning pocket knives. Maybe I will pick up a Kershaw and experiment with carrying it.

For whatever it's worth, I disagree on the fundamentals, based on my own experience.

I think "knife nuts" are born, not trained, and there are a LOT of people who just have an irrational reaction to them. I've had people I was very friendly with suddenly turn cold and others react with near-hysteria when I've slowly opened a Swiss Army knife to do something as innocent as opening a box... had one go into near-hysterics at the scissors of a Leatherman Micra and another incident where I got reported to security for using the pliers in a Leathernan Juice.

I've always been comfortable with blades,and even spent some years fencing for recreation. Conversely, I shoot, but it was never a natural thing for me, I had to learn to deal with noise, recoi and a bunch of learned actions that seem anything but instinctive.

I have immense respect for both camps, but most of the negative reaction to blades seems to me to be pure aichmophobia, and the fact that it can be rationalized does not mean that there is a rational foundation for it.

It wasn't that many decades ago that a bunch of politicians, including one fool Senator known for wearing a coonskin cap in the 1950's capitalized on media hype and irrational public fears and convinced the American public that if they could just eliminate spring-loaded knives all the problems of "juvenile delinquency" (the then-correct phrase for gang activity) would obviously go away, or at the very least become much less lethal. They used all the familiar arguments, "it's for the children", "if it saves just one life", etc. etc... all of which ignored the key fact that singling out knives that open with a spring is just manifestly pretty silly.

They got their way, of course, switchblades had almost no defenders, those few that existed were easy to shout down, they were outlawed federally and individually in almost every state, and by some measures the laws were an enormous success, for decades after it became increasingly rare for any to be found on the streets. The ban pretty much worked.

Of course, not many people were ever killed by switchblades in drive-bys, which are pretty much an everyday occurrence now, and the modern gangs have about as much interest in knives now as they do in slingshots.

Oops.

I would caution against letting the forces determined to beat ALL swords into plowshares divide one group of sword-owners against another. It's the principle that simply does not work, and the people who want those swords beaten into plowshares always want, and always have wanted to start with YOUR swords, and enforce it with their own.