Kershaw Oso Sweet EDC Pocketknife, Assisted Folder

Kershaw Sporting Goods is renowned for producing high-quality, high-performance, and affordable working tools and knives for everyday carry and specialized applications. From award-winning technologies and advanced materials to the solid sound of the blade lockup, when you're carrying a Kershaw, you know you're carrying the real thing. With Kershaw, you get incredible bang for your hard-earned buck, as even their inexpensive models are impressive in their craftsmanship, reliability, and overall quality.

Dominating the folding pocket knife market for everyday carry, Kershaw creates exceptional products that cater to all consumers. The brand consistently selects appropriate, top-notch materials and dedicates itself to the intensive craftsmanship of hardworking pocketknives, hunting knives, or special collectors' editions. Kershaw's advanced technology and innovative design combine to produce solid, crafted, and reliable knives that users are proud to carry.

One such example is the OSO, which features high-performance 8Cr13MoV steel - a budget-friendly, reliable, and top-of-the-line Chinese-produced steel with carbon and slightly less nickel for hardness and edge retention. Kershaw's precision heat treatment of the 8Cr13MoV steel ensures it strongly takes and holds an edge, offering wear resistance that can withstand both abrasive and adhesive damage.

When a knife design requires a lighter blade to highlight the steel, Kershaw often applies a satin finish. This satin finish leaves faint patterns of lines on the steel, reducing the appearance of stains and scratches on the blade. Alternatively, Kershaw's Titanium Carbo-Nitride blade coating produces an attractive, sleek black or gray finish that increases the blade's hardness and helps maintain a razor-sharp edge, enhancing the overall lifetime of the blade.

Kershaw's revolutionary SpeedSafe Assisted Opening system enables smooth, secure, and fast one-handed blade deployment, utilizing a torsion bar to move the blade out of the handle. A light push or pull back on the flipper or thumb stud overcomes the resistance of the torsion bar, allowing the blade to open smoothly and lock into place for confident handling without premature closure.

Kershaw's frame lock design also makes their knives safer, securer, sturdier, and quicker for one-handed blade deployment. The knife handle, or frame, has two metal plates on either side of the blade, and when open, the lockbar butts up against the blade's backend to prevent blade closure. To close the knife blade, the user simply pushes the frame to the side to unlock the blade and fold it back into the handle.

Additional features include one-handed flipper deployment, durable stainless steel handles, and convenient pocketclips that can be configured for various carry positions. Kershaw's commitment to quality, performance, and user safety is evident in every aspect of their exceptional product lineup.

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