The Kershaw Shallot Knife Features A Tip-Up or Tip-Down Carry Option
1840CBZDP - Shallot from Kershaw, Stainless Steel Handle, Composite Sandvik 14CZN/ZDP189 Plain Edge Blade
You’ll be surprised how well this knife cuts. Made by Kershaw and Ken Onion by Americans for the world, the Shallot is a sharp and long lasting little knife. It’s no ordinary onion! The Shallot is made from all stainless steel construction. It features a Sandvik 14CZN/ZDP189 Composite stainless-steel blade and a 410 stainless steel handle, making this knife stain and rust resistant. The Shallot comes with a limited lifetime warranty, so you don’t have to worry about this knife breaking down on you in a short period of time. Excellent safety features are a part of what makes the Shallot 1840 such a great knife. It comes with the patented SpeedSafe assisted ambidextrous index-finger opener to easily slide open the blade when you need it. The knife also comes with a reversible/removable pocket clip for easy and convenient carrying. You can carry the Shallot tip up or tip down at an arm’s reach.
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 using the Index-Open system. (Index-Open uses a protruding portion of the blade's finger guard. 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 on the Index-Opening system 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.