There was a one-day deal in listed in the BLF Deal Alerts for the Kershaw 1940ST (and others). I didn’t know enough then to buy only straight edge rather than partial serrated but I bought 4 because everyone thought it seemed to be such a good deal at $12.50 plus $1.25 postage.
Have a volt, bro has a clash, dad’s friend who’s an outdoorsy biker and is 62 has a chive. He says that 0- blood works well as a lube for it.
Kershaws are good because they have nice designs. Are cheap, but not too cheap to have crap materials. And they use slightly better than 440a steels and just popular cuz of nutnfancy i’d say.
SPEEDSAFE is a huge part of how they sell their knives
CUSTOMER SERVICE, something breaks or wears out like the speedsafe, you send it to them if china knife and they give you a new one, if a use made knife they will send you a kit to fix it if you want