The Kershaw Rainbow Chive Knife Features Titanium-Oxide Coated Steel
1600VIB - Chive from Kershaw and Ken Onion, Rainbow Titanium Coated Handle, Plain Edge Blade
This Kershaw Chive Rainbow knife is another of the very popular Chive series of knives. All of the chives come in several different style choices so you can pick the Chive knife that is a perfect match for your personality. Hippies and fun lovers will enjoy this particular Chive knife that comes with a 410 stainless steel titanium-oxide coated rainbow handle. The blade is also 420HC stainless steel titanium-oxide coated for that unique rainbow effect. Turn it in the light and it becomes iridescent. Another great knife that could serve double duty as a fishing lure! Just kidding. Although the stainless steel and titanium coating will also serve to make this knife durable and resistant to corrosion.The uniquely shaped Chive blade makes this knife useful for many different purposes, such as filleting a fish or piercing holes in a aluminum. There are two safety features that make the new line of Kershaws an excellent choice. There is the frame lock which firmly holds your Chive blade into position after being fully opened and the Tip Safety Lock which will lock the blade into place after being folded down.
SpeedSafeŽ, the patented, assisted-opening system built into many of Kershaw's best-selling Ken Onion knives. SpeedSafe assists the user to smoothly open the knife with a manual push on the blade's thumb stud or Index- Open system. (Index-Open uses a protruding portion of the blade's finger guard to give the user an alternative to the thumb stud. The user manually pulls back on the protrusion with the index finger to open the blade.)
The heart of the SpeedSafe system is its torsion bar. Closed, the torsion bar helps keep the knife closed, preventing it from being opened by "gravity." 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 halfmoon track and takes over. The blade opens smoothly and locks into position, ready for use.