Customer Reviews

Kershaw Ken Onion Baby Boa Folding Knife with Speed Safe

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What a beautiful little knife. The Baby Boa is just perfict for the front pocket. You dont know its there, but when you need a razersharp blade its there. Handleing the Baby Boa is very easy and safe. The Baby Boa is Made of high quality steel and aluminum in Oregon, USA

A handy pocket small pocket knife. Blade is sharp and strong, carries easily in pocket for opening packages and boxes at work.

The Baby Boa looks like a designer's masterpiece, closed. It looks like a masterpiece open. The curve of the blade's edge is a thing of beauty. The tiny handle fits my first 3 fingers as if somebody took a casting of my hand and then patterned the handle to fit perfectly. Best of all? The "Baby" will fit in the watch pocket of your jeans. Totally unobtrusive yet always at the ready. Do I like this little knife? Nope. I love it.

I own several Kershaw knives, with my favorites being the Kershaw Ken Onion Red Blur Folding Knife with Speed Safe and the Kershaw Ken Onion Black Blur Folding Knife with Speed Safe Those knives are working knives, with large, strong blades, but the same famous Kershaw sharpness with easy and fast operation.

I bought the Baby Boa to carry in my front pocket and I certainly wasn't disappointed. It's almost a miniature Red Blur, just a slight difference in the blade design, so I'm very happy with the knife. For a small knife, it's the easiest to operate that I've ever used. It's so easy to operate, I bought one for my father, who is almost 80 years old. He has trouble opening most knives, certainly can't open them one handed, but was operating the Baby Boa one handed, like a pro, in very short order.

One thing I should mention, is that there is a slide safety that locks the blade. It's a small button on the body of the knife, close to the top of the pocket clip. It looks just like another screw in the body. When my father got his knife, it was locked. I wasn't aware of the lock, because mine wasn't locked when I got it and the instructions don't talk about a safety blade lock in this location. Operation of the safety lock is simple. It is a sliding lock. You push/slide it toward the bottom of the knife body to release it and toward the top of the knife body to lock it.

If you want a nice, small pocket knife, you can't go wrong with the Baby Boa.

First, I'm used to Scallions. I completely glazed over the size of this when I ordered it. It is the prettiest knife I've ever had and I love it; but I have very small hands, my index finger is about 2.25" long. So while the Scallions were always very easy to operate and pretty scary for a girl to whip out, this one is still taking some time to get used to. It's fine as a tool, but I couldn't access it quickly enough to defend myself like I could with my others. The thumb post is even more difficult for me to operate.

Pros: Since I wear low waisted jeans, my pockets aren't very deep at all. The Baby Boa fits perfectly in my pocket where the Scallions always stuck out and would get caught by my seatbelt and then subsequently lost. (Hence this purchase.)

Cons: I don't have strong enough hands and it's actually pretty small even for me.

I'll upload some pictures.

I received this knife as a surprise Christmas present a few weeks ago, and am quite pleased with it.

The SpeedSafe mechanism operates smoothly, the design is "simple-but-none-simpler", and while clipped to my front jeans pocket, I frequently forget it's there.

Kudos, Ken Onion and Kershaw!

This knife is beautiful to look at, easy to carry and the blade is SHARP. But, it is very difficult to open and close for those of us with large hands. I have the full-sized Boa and it is a dream to open and close, so was expecting the same operation with the Baby. I will keep it, and I will get used to it, but was expecting better. Also, the pocket clip cannot be repositioned for different tastes in wearing, something I had expected from Ken Onion. I still recommend to anyone looking for a small, high-quality, carry knife. My workplace restricts knife blades to less than 2.5" (like that is going to make any difference), so this was just what I needed.

I bought this knife for my key chain. It is a perfect size for that purpose. Excellant quality. The only thing I find negative is that it's so small that opening it takes some practice. I use a pull apart key chain for easy acess.

This is the second assisted opening Kershaw knife I've bought. I already use a Chive I've had for about 2 years and love everything about it. I decided to get a Baby Boa since I'm bound to lose or break the Chive. The Baby Boa has a great look to it and as expected a very high quality blade. It's a slight bit more difficult to close and lock in the closed position than the Chive. I imagine the locking mechanism will become easier to engage with use. If you have large fingers and no finger nails, you may find disengaging the (opened)blade lock difficult.

A beautiful knife that is beautifully sharp.
Aesthetically pleasing, cleverly designed.
This is actually the first pocket knife I've
ever bought, I've always used whatever's around,
I feel like I've passed the Tom Sawyer rite of passage.
And what a great choice to do it with!