Getting Top-Notch Kershaw Knives With Latest Designs and Collections

More than 40 years later, the Oregon-based company continues to flex its muscle and show why it remains one of the best knife companies around.The company has evolved over the years with popular and revolutionary knife models coming and going, but we wanted to take a look at the best knives currently in production at Kershaw.Onion designed a really solid run of small slicers for Kershaw a while back, all of which feature Kershaw’s Onion-designed SpeedSafe Assisted Open system.

I don’t really care about assisted open, but I really don’t feel like copy/pasting that in the details for the next 5 knives on this list, so I’m saying it here and you can just kind of mull it over as you read.These knives have the kind of compact design that’s more finesse than power, but comes in handy for most of what you do, provided what you’re doing doesn’t require a blade over 4 inches, because all of these pretty much just dance around the 3 inch mark.

If you actually handle a few of them, though, you’ll see there are small degrees of difference, mostly in the blade shape, that justifies each design being on its own.

This Ken Onion design has always been lumped in with the historically important knives (it made our own list of most iconic knives) and for good reason.The Leek is simple, effective, and is a gold standard for EDC knives.

The knife features a 3-inch modified Wharncliffe blade made from quality 142C28N steel, a stainless steel handle with a frame lock, and the SpeedSafe assisted-opening mechanism.Because the Leek is a staple of Kershaw, it’s available in tons of varieties and colors.

Maybe it will complicate sharpening a little, but that little bit of wave on the edge can add so much cutting ability when the blade is made well.You can also get it serrated, which seems like a neat idea, but for me kind of ruins the look and flow of the blade’s slicing.