Kershaw Ken Onion Tactical Blur Folding Knife with Speed Safe
Kershaw Ken Onion Tactical Blur Folding Knife with Speed Safe
Constructed of 440A stainless steel, Kershaw’s Ken Onion Tactical Blur folding knife features a 3-3/8-inch partially serrated Tanto blade. A lightweight anodized aluminum handle offers Trac-Tec inserts which provide a non-slip grip (even in wet and slippery conditions). Kershaw’s assisted opening system, SpeedSafe, assists the user to smoothly open the knife with a manual push on the blade’s thumb stud or Index-Open system. SpeedSafe’s torsion bar helps keep the knife closed, preventing it from being opened by accident. In order to open the knife, the user must apply manual pressure to the thumb stud to overcome the resistance of the torsion bar. After the blade is out of the handle, the torsion bar moves along its track and takes over. The blade opens smoothly and locks into position, ready for use.
About Kershaw Knives
Since the company’s founding in 1974, Kershaw Knives has been dedicated to quality that has led to a worldwide reputation for performance and innovation in tools and knives. From state-of-the-art manufacturing to advanced materials, customers rely on Kershaw for products that provide “technology with an edge.” Today, Kershaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kai Corporation–for over 90 years. Japan’s premier blade producer. Kai’s innovative approach to product development has resulted in over 10,000 superior products.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars One of the best Kershaw Ken Onion designs
The Blur is a fine choice for EDC (Every Day Carry). It has a lightweight, slim profile, aluminum handle design with trac-tec inserts for a tight grip. I believe the blade steel on this model is 440A, though many others in the series are Sandvik 13C26. There are a couple of S30V models as well, but these will run about $30 to $40 more. The Speed Safe assisted opening mechanism is nice, but it always gives me a strange feeling that the knife may open in my pocket on its own. This hasn’t happened to me yet but I have read online about it happening to others, so I feel it prudent to move the clip over so I can carry it tip up in my pocket, against the thigh seam. This seems like a safer carry position for me. The clip is strong and keeps it in place in the pocket until needed. I like that they didn’t put the trac-tec under the pocket clip, as this would have been tougher on fabrics.
I have four of these knives, including this one in black with the partially serrated tanto point blade (Model# 1670TBLKST), one each of the gray (1670GY) and red (1670RD) modified drop point blades in Sandvik 13C26, and one black (1670S30V) modified drop point in S30V. All of these are very nice knives and in my opinion perform quite well in an EDC role. That said, there are other knives that would serve equally well and I’d like to just mention them as alternatives for consideration: Benchmade Mini-Griptilian (~$80), SOG Flash I (~$35), SOG Mini-Vulcan (~$70), Kershaw Storm (~$30), Spyderco Native (~$55), and my current favorite Spyderco Caly 3 (~$100). I’m sure there are many other great options out there.
In any case, my overall feeling is that the Blur would make a great choice, even when compared with all of the excellent competition. It feels good in the hand, cuts well, grips tight, and looks cool. At this price of around $55, it’s also a good value.
3 Stars Broke the Tip Like an Idiot
This knife was great. WAS great. I bought a blemished model with the 4 Xs. Everything about it was great, opened fast, super sharp, looks deadly. Maybe i didn’t notice it at first, but after a few months I saw that the very tip was bent a little tiny bit. Maybe that was the reason for the blemished selection. Like an idiot i tried to bend the tip back by putting sideways pressure on the blade against a stainless steel plate, and it snapped right off. Now the knife has no tip. Sure, I did an idiotic thing with it, but still I couldn’t believe how easily it broke. The tip of the blade is so thin, it literally snapped like plastic cutlery. I was shocked.
I’m clearly not a knife expert, but it seems like steel should be able to withstand a lof of force from any direction. Maybe I should have paid more attention in physics when they were teaching leverage.
This was the first major knife I owned. It’s not covered under warranty because it was a blemished knife. The main purpose for buying this knife was for self defense and the stab factor. Now it only has it’s slash factor. I’m sad. And I also feel defenseless. I decided to buy a Kershaw Boa to replace it. We’ll see how that goes.
It feels like my penis broke. That’s how much i loved the knife.
In conclusion, buy this knife, just don’t be an idiot with it.
3 Stars Good knife, nuetered
Received knife with speed assist nob cut off. Returned thinking it was defective and recieved new knife in exact same condition. Now I have to spend 10 dollars and send it into Kershaw to have nob put back on that came from factory. What a joke. I do not live in California or Massachuesetts. Arizona does not try to protect me from myself nor does it need to. Not living in a facist state, I have no need for products that come nuetered (such as removing the fast opening nob on this particular knife). Do not buy knives from Amazon.
5 Stars Kershaw Ken Onion Tactical Blur folding knife w/speed safe
Excellent tool of a knife. I never leave home without it because I find use for the knife all the time. Not too heavy, not too lite. Strong! The blade is easy to resharpen. I have owned two in ten years! The only pocket knife for me, period!
5 Stars Amazing blade
For the price, this knife is one of the best tanto folding blades I have ever had. It will get the job done. Just because “tactical” is in the title some people might go around brandishing it as a weapon. Don’t do it, its just a marketing technique. This is a great edc but I can say that the regular blade would be a better suited to doing normal every day things you would do with a knife. But in the end, this knife will always be by my side.
