r/kershaw

Don’t know why I only thought to ask this community about this now but here I am.
Bought my Bel Air in Dec 2024 so they were fairly new still. A few weeks in, I placed it in my jacket pocket when I was at the Chiropractor. When I was done, I reached into my pocket to find the blade opened halfway! Got home and played around with the pivot screw. In order to get it tight enough from easily opening on its own, the flipping action was sacrificed and awful. There was no happy medium. I even sent to Kershaw Canada and all he said was that it was missing one of the O springs. Sent it back to me and said all is good.
Tested it and detent was “better”. After a few days it became lax again. Is this normal for these knives? Anyone else have this issue? Anything I can do before I send it back out for service (such a pain)? The video starts w a slight flick, medium, then little more than medium flick.

I arrived late to the show, but the G10 is a match! Surprising how powerful & snappy the knife is! 🇺🇸

Ive had this livewire and have carried it almost everyday since January of 25. It failed to deploy last night. I opened it up to find the loop broke off the spring. I already contacted CS and filled out a replacement parts form. Hopefully it doesnt take long. I got screws before and it was quick so 🤞 !

I picked up the Iridium and Mini Iridium recently. I really like the blade shape and form factor on both. If they had the flipper option, they’d be almost perfect. Overall, both excellent knives.

Bel Air XL

I have a Kershaw 1985ST assisted-opening knife, bought in 2016. It's not used as a fidget toy but as a mostly reliable handyman tool/box opener. I might flick it open maybe 2X per day on average. But I am now replacing my second fractured torsion bar. Kershaw warranty replaced it first time in 2020 (4 years since purchase) and they also did a nice job returning a very sharp blade with the repair. Now 2026 (6 years since torsion bar #2), it's broken again. This time I just requested Kershaw send me several replacement torsion bars and will do my own repairs. I like the Kershaw brand, warranty, and customer service, but man, this is the only knife I own with such needy maintenance. I've destroyed knives through misuse and not counting those, but I have never had to repair any other knife internals in my 60 years. Question: is the torsion bar a sub-par design, or is Kershaw spring metallurgy a problem, or am I seeing Chinesium effects? Wondering if I should just move on from torsion bar designs, or Kershaw brand itself? This knife was made in China.