Kershaw Leek A/O Knife 1660

I am not a hunter or fisherman and I only bought this knife to carry in the car for when I need it and for when I go hiking. That said, it's a nice knife, sharp, and the blade comes out with just a pull of your finger on the top. The only thing I'd criticize it for is that the handle is so thin. Each side of the handle is only the width of the blade, which makes it difficult to grasp, especially when trying to open or close it. I've had a couple other knives with thicker, more substantial handles and they seemed better, at least for me.

This has been my everyday carry now since purchase, going on a year. It is my favorite knife for the reasons listed in my earlier review below.

The safety lock on mine eventually disappeared. I have yet to have it pop open in my pocket. :)

this is a great pocket knife. Kershaw knives come ridiculously sharp, So beware!
For an all metal knife, the rounded edges make it very comfortable in the pocket. It replaced a smaller knife, with 1" less blade, and yet the curves make it less intrusive.

4 stars as I have two issues with the design.
- It can't decide if it wants to be opened easier than any other knife you own, or harder. If the "lock" is left off, it opens almost like a switchblade. This is fine, and very handy in many one handed operations, but I guess Kershaw was scared that it might flip open in your pocket and stab you to death. So they added a tiny little safety switch that prevents it opening at all.

this leaves you with a choice when you carry it, leave the safety on, and totally defeat the entire point of the easy one handed opening, or don't engage the safety, and live with the fear that you will one day sever your femoral artery while trying to use a public bathroom and bleed out in the jon..

It really just should have been less springy on the opening the one handed operation would still function without it flying open like a switchblade.

The other problem is on occasion it likes to lock open in a way that is hard to close again. This might be unit specific flaw, or a design flaw, I don't know.