KershawShuffle Folding Pocket Knife, Compact Utility and Multi-Function Every Day Carry, Multiple Styles

Very handy compact and light knife, with a low price making it a perfect companion to your more expensive main-carry, to keep wear and tear off your main-carry; also useful as spare knives for glove box, tool box, center console, door pockets, fishing boxes, or just on the kitchen counter for utility cutting. The blade is only 2.4" on this Shuffle 1 (the tanto Shuffle 2 is slightly longer) and it arrives sharp enough to cleanly and smoothly slice copier paper along the side edge or push-cut from the top. Blade is well-centered and there is no side to side wobble or up or down wobble. For normal package opening, probably the only maintenance you will need to do is to wipe down the edge to remove stuck adhesive from opening cartons (wet scrubber sponge works best) and lightly strop the blade to restore the edge (I recommend the wood carvers' stop, the https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FFJ9TLW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ).I have mixed feelings about the sacrifice of a longer cutting edge so as to include a finger choil to let you "choke up" on the blade itself. On a short knife like this, your hand will already be closer to the blade edge without having to move even more forward up and then off the handle to use the finger choil.On the other hand, the finger choil does act as a constant reminder to not slice too deeply with the blade, and thereby keeping food further away from the pivot area. Slicing up a bbq rotisserie chicken and getting fat and meat in the pivot area is a real mess.In terms of detent, my Shuffles from a few years ago were so stiff I have always two-hand opened them. This latest 2022 Shuffle has an easier detent and I can easily roll the blade open (it won't snap open) with the thumbstud. I don't even know at this point whether this loose one deviates from Kershaw's goal or the stiff ones where the intentional ones. I certainly don't know if Kershaw tuned up their assembly line so the average user can actually move the thumbstud without Herculean effort, but I'm glad I now have one sample - out of five - that will actually open signle-handed, as intended.The liner-lock bar makes full contact with the rear of the blade, which is the minimal requirement, and it makes such contact without a "snappy" opening. If opened with a final snap, the liner lock doesn't lock too deep and tight. When I add some wrist flip, it doesn't seat any deeper and remains easy to unlock. The rear of my black finish blade is ground to naked steel with the appropriate semi-rough, slanted finish necessary for anti-slip, but unfortunately the liner lock bar has the smooth black finish on its contact area, which, while not ideal, doesn't seem to make the liner lock more prone to slipping in to deep or sliding open under spine whack shock. Please keep in mind that, of liner locks, frame locks, button locks, lockbacks, button locks, and TriAd locks, liner locks are the most likely to come unlocked in hard use; and that actual strength of the lockup on a liner lock actually depends on things we can't, as consumers, easily judge, such as angle of grind on the back of the blade, and roughness and width of the contact area on the back of the blade, and the thickness, roughness, and depth of lockup of the liner lock bar.So far as I can tell, this Shuffle has either a single bronze washer on each side of the knife pivot, or the typical dual bronze washers plus a very thin single Teflon washer added on one side. Thumbstud roll out is easy, but snapping the blade out is really hard to pull off. Lock up seems sufficient without addition of any of "snap":Clip reverses side to side for seam-clipping in left or right pants pockets (or shirt pocket) but not up and down (so no tip down carry option).The screw driver function on the butt of the handle is well-sized for camera tripod screw slots, but of little practical use with other flat head screws. It might be good for light prying. The bottle opener function works well (blade closed of course). Clip is well designed.I much prefer the "black oxide" coated blade version; screws, clip, blade, thumb-studs, handle scales, and handle liners are all blacked out. This is NOT Kershaw's motley looking "black wash" used on some other designs - it is a conventional low-gloss, smooth black coating.Handles are thin, but do not excessively flex when pinched.I prefer a simple full flat grind, but this hollow grind below a high saber line satisfactory.Kershaw is often viewed as a cheap brand, but their design quality and manufacturing precision are very high. They just blow away Home Depot, truck stop, and hardware knives for only a little more, or sometimes even for a little less.

Im a knife collector and enthusiast, tending to focus on Benchmade and Spyderco. This is a $20 knife, so how on earth could it get 5 stars against those brands? USE CASE, thats how. This isnt meant to be an EDC, or to meet any standard knife need. What it is meant for, is drinking while camping. The bottle opener is awesome and convenient, shotguns beers great, and it’ll still cut through firewoood bags. When Im out on the campground having a good time, this cheap knife you wont mind beating up is capable to take it on.

I have bought, am buying and will buy moire knives in the future.So far in the last 6 years ice bought about 30 knives. I try to get the cheapest ones I can find. If I'm being honest, about 90% of them have been dull right out of the box. This mini knife was so sharp that it cut my finger just by mildly pressing it against the back of my ring finger on my right hand. So sharp I didn't know I was cut until I went top wash my dishes and the water with a lil antibacterial soap in it, it instantly cause my cut finger to burn, that and i found out it was a bit deepre than I had thought originally

A gem in the rough...I will make no bones about it I’m a pretty avid knife guy. More so with pocket folders and tactic style knifes which that in itself is partly what drew me to purchase this little Kershaw Shuffle. Not that it’s a tactical knife but in fairness it was never meant to be.Now I should start out by saying that given the cheap price of the knife I wasn’t expecting much out of it. In this world of usually ‘you get what you pay for’ being the rule rather then the exception I didn’t expect a whole lot out of this knife but after some ‘teething problems’ it turned out to be a very likable knife.What I meant by teething problems is that as some others have said on here when you first get the knife chances are it will be quite stiff to open and close. Now in fairness that’s pretty common with most knifes with a little oiling and opening and closing the life breaking it in I did notice that it did seem to be slowly loosening up. I took it a step farther and tore the knife completely apart just to inspect it for myself and given the price range I would say that Kershaw is not skipping out on there quality even with cheaper knifes like this. Things lock up tightly and seem stoutly built for the size and price range of the knife. The blade itself is profiled reasonably symmetrically though being a cheap knife you have to have realistic expectations and not expect it to be of the same caliber and refinement as say a Cold Steel knife for example.Nonetheless having said all that it really is turning out to be quite a nice little knife. Now it’s obvious to say but it is a smaller knife. For guys that have bigger hands this could be a problem but when I say small I don’t mean cheap cartoony small. Just be aware that it is smaller then some knifes out there. It’s also worth mentioning as well that the blade steel is CR13MOV. Personally I’m not that bothered by that sense it’s a respectable steel quality, better then some of the ‘mystery steels’ that you see in some Gerber’s for example. The edge from the factory is usable although as expected it could be refined quite a bit but that’s not to hard to do given that the steel is CR13MOV.It takes an edge quickly and with general maintenance it will stay more then sharp enough for realistic cutting tasks. The handle is nothing to write home about though it is solid feeling and very predictable in the hands especially with steel liners adding strength and quality to the knife. The pocket clip is a little tight but I sprung mine out just slightly and it’s now easily able to be clipped yet maintains it’s secure unmoving quality.The elephant in the room in regards to this knife are some of the added features it has. I will say this. The flat head ‘screw driver’ at the base of the handle is actually realistically useable. I’d not use it to build a house but for simple screw tightening jobs or perhaps using it for modest pry bar applications it functions well and I’ve used it for both without issues. The ‘bottle cap’ lifter or whatever you want to call it does seem a little gimmicky and while I don’t drink alcohol to know if it is realistically usable for opening bottles I pressure can a number of different things and have used it to break the seals on pressure canned items and it has worked legitimately well.Are there better options? Yes. But for the price point and the fact it’s a Kershaw I definitely would recommend it off of those two factors alone. It’s far from the first Kershaw I’ve owned and while it’s not even remotely as good as some of the others I have it’s more then useable and I’m glad I got it. I call it a gem in the rough because when I first got it I’m sure I thought what a lot of others thought that this is just kind of ridiculous plus it’s stiff and blah blah blah. Well after working with it a bit it became quite a nice little knife. More then I was expecting it to be. So would I recommend it? Yes. For the price and quality especially after you break the knife in a bit I give it five stars out of five. Yes this review was written by a real person.

Feels great in the hand and it's a really great size without being too small to be useful. The opening mechanism feels really nice and it's easy to open and close one-handed. It's also VERY sharp (as it should be, obviously) and it had no issues slicing through some fabric straps I wanted to cut off a bag.