Product ReviewsKershaw OSO Sweet Knife 1830 Pocket Knife - Black

Great EDC.

Great product! LIghtweight and easy to pocket carry. Textured handle provides good grip, assist feature deploys blade quickly. This is my second 1830, misplaced the first on a trip to Alaska.

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A cheap knife produced even more cheaply by Kershaw

I only bought this knife to mod the handle scales such as I recently read about on a knife forum page. I owned an OSO Sweet a few years ago and as it was never really one of my favorite knives it was one of a few I sold to help fund another knife I wanted. When I did own my older model a few years ago however, it was a smooth opening and reasonably decent utilitarian knife. When I received this latest version of the OSO Sweet I was struck by how cheap this one looked and felt as compared to the previous one I had. The action was gritty and tight, blade centering was horrible made only worse by attempting to adjust the pivot screw, and there was a noticeable gap between the torsion bar side liner and its handle scale. It looked worse than a $7 Chinese knife!
Looking more closely I observed that Kershaw now went to replacing the phosphor bronze bushings they used to use in favor of one thin nylon shim on one side of the blade and a thick plastic 'O' ring one can hardly call a shim on the side towards the torsion bar side of the knife. This makes for a very poor fit of the handle scale on that side and an extremely cheap feeling knife in total. Kershaw; If you didn't intend to keep the OSO Sweet at least respectable in how it looked and functioned before you saved twenty cents in production cost in the blade/pivot bushings and started using cheap plastic in the internals, you should have just dropped the model. This embarrassment and their propensity for still putting those awful torsion bars that break all the time in their knives is what's kept be from buying any of their products in the past few years. The new OSO Sweet is a $20 knife worth less that $5 IMO and a total loser! Read full review...

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Nice item.

Nice little knife. Good quality for the price and good edge.

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Good buy.

Nice carry size. Does require periodic sharpening. Good value

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Kershaw Knife

Well-built knife with a clip that does not let it fall out of your pocket!

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Best knife for the price

I love the assist on this this knife, and the size and sharpness

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Good quality

Very sharp, and not to large or to small for EDC

Ok Knife

Nice knife.. Only problem that it was made in China.

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Works well

Good functional knife for the money. Easy open!

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Love it

It’s a good little knife.