The Kershaw Cyclone Knife Features Styling, Precision, and Performance
1630 - Cyclone from Kershaw and Ken Onion, Black Aluminum Handle, Plain Edge Blade
There is no doubt about it, the Cyclone from Kershaw and Ken Onion is a truly versatile knife. You’ll be able to enable or disable the SpeedSafe assisted-opening function on this knife whenever you wish. If you are showing the knife off to someone inexperienced with knives set it to fully manual opening so they need to keep two hands on the knife when opening it. If you are just using the knife for a task and need to open it quickly, engage the SpeedSafe System for quick and easy opening. The knife also features the Locking Liner to ensure that the knife blade stays firmly in place after its been opened. No need to worry about slippage when using a knife with the Locking Liner. Plus you can easily release the knife blade to fold it back down again by pressing a spring loaded lock. Your Cyclone Knife comes with a black 6061-T6 anodized aluminum Handle with a 410 stainless steel liner. The blade is Sandvik 13C26 stainless steel. Both the handle and the blade will remain durable after repeated use and keep a nice edge with proper care.
Locking LinerLocks the blade into position after the blade is deployed. To release the locking liner simply press the spring loaded lock and the blade will easily fold back into the handle. Kershaw Cyclone Specifications:
SpeedSafe®, 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.