Cinder Pocket Keychain Knife, Lightweight

When you carry a Kershaw, you know you're carrying the real thing - from award-winning technologies and advanced materials to the solid sound of the blade lockup. With Kershaw, you get incredible value for your money. Even their inexpensive models are impressive. In fact, everything about a Kershaw is solid, crafted, and reliable.

Dominating the everyday carry, folding pocket knife market, Kershaw creates high-quality, high-performance, exceptional, working tools and knives affordable to all consumers. Kershaw always chooses appropriate, top-notch materials and is dedicated to intensive craftsmanship of hardworking pocketknives, hunting knives, or special collectors' editions. Kershaw's advanced technology and innovative design combine to create solid, crafted, reliable knives users are proud to carry.

Signature to a classic Hinderer design, Rick Hinderer uses a lockbar stabilizer in many of his designs. Hinderer claims fame over his Hinderer-style filler tabs among many other technologies and collaborations in Kershaw's knife lines. Famous for the Kershaw Cryo, Hinderer designs unique and powerful knives built tough and built to last.

A value-priced high-chromium stainless steel, 3CR13 stainless steel is a type of Chinese steel created for affordable and durable blades. 3Cr13 has added alloys to improve the steel's wear and corrosion resistances, making it a tough metal highly-capable of everyday use. Additional vanadium in the metal mixture adds strength to the handle scales.

Depending on the knife's design, Kershaw's non-reflective stonewashed finish may be either pronounced or subtle, but in both cases, it transforms the blade by creating a fade-resistant, scuffed look that hides smudges and fingerprints. A stonewashed finish, achieved by tumbling a blade with ceramic stones, enhances a blade's rugged appearance as well as its indestructibility during field use.

The classic way to open a knife, manual action knives use a thumb hole, thumb stud or built-in flipper to safely deploy the blade. Holding the knife level at 90o angle, quickly and smoothly flick the wrist to maneuver the blade out of the handle. Place fingers along handle scales and apply pressure inward on the blade with the thumb. Manual systems do not employ mechanical assist to open a knife.

With two steel plates, or liners, on the inside of each handle scale, the liner locking system safely secures the blade open and prevents unwanted blade closure. The lockbar butts up against the blade's backend to prevent closure, and angles or is bent towards the blade tang creating a bias locked position. Apply manual force to move the lockbar to the side and fold the blade back into the handle.

Flippers on manual-open knives require the user to push with quick strength until the blade deploys. Some manual flippers disappear when the blade deploys, others become a finger guard. Manual flippers appeal to inexperienced users as well as experienced users who prefer a classic, old-style opening. In both cases, the ambidextrous flipper works as the index finger applies pressure while the closed knife sits in the palm.

Very tough, able to take heavy-duty hard use, and versatile, glass-filled nylon handle material is a nylon synthetic polymer reinforced with glass threads for increased strength. Glass-filled nylon has incredible stiffness for a secure and stable grip, great ability to withstand heat, and dimensional stability combined with excellent wear resistance.

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