BladeHQ bringing the Kershaw Skyline out of retirement.

On one hand I'm glad it's coming back, never should have left. On the other hand, it's going to be something it was never intended (IMO) a higher end knife.
I would rather it came back to compete with knives like QSP,
 
Leo Greer said:
It always worries me just a little bit when I see 20CV on Kershaws. Not because of any knock on their more expensive knives, but because I’ve owned some of their cheaper offerings that were downright disgusting (in my opinion), and I feel like they can put a good steel with a good HT on a knife without all that much work and effort, whereas upgrading the whole knife requires some doing.

The question becomes; is this a $50 knife with nicer blade steel, or is it $100 knife with appropriate blade steel?

As many knife reviewers will mention, it’s about how much work goes into it, not necessarily the materials: how much effort went into improving the skyline?
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That's my issue with budget knives in upgraded steels. A great steel in a flawed knife is still a PITA.
Now Blade HQ had the Kizer Begleiter in 20CV, a great deal on their yearly Kizer sale. But that's a fundamentally solid knife.
 
Never owned a skyline. Never appealed to me when I was more squarely in the budget space and was discontinued later in my knife owning journey. One is 20cv is pretty sweet though but I agree with others that can't stand the jade g-10 look. Never really understood the attraction there. I suppose I could try my hand at rit dye but yeesh
 
It was always confusing how there were such nice aftermarket scales on such subpar knives while some other knives that could really benefit did not have such support. Guess now those that have nice scales can pick up one of these so they can have a blade that matches their scales
 
c7m2p3 said:
Maybe they will improve the detent with it coming back out after being discontinued? A lot has changed in the capability of manufacturing quality detents at a reasonable price since the Skyline debuted
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If they do and people start reporting this to be the case, I'll be all over this one. Fingers crossed. 👍
 
I saw this and I'm so stoked. I only own one skyline and wish I bought more when they were still being made. Fantastic little knife, and thanks to nutnfancy for showing me it.
 
For me, Jade scales = clean slate for whatever color I want (or even a fade of colors), and with g10 you can likely even keep it translucent. Rit dye is EZPZ
 
If you disassemble a Skyline you'll find the single liner has a detent "hump" pressed into the steel. Not the best design for good flipping action. If they can really improve the design on this with a real detent ball, maybe even bearings, there's no reason it won't flip as good as the good action currently available...everywhere.

The Skyline debuted in 2008 and there weren't many flippers around back then. Heck, even Hinderers had teflon washers and required a solid wrist flick for many hundreds of dollars. This would be a great opportunity to take a venerable design and improve upon it. All they'd have to do is to tweak the liner design and re-design the washer/bearing races. Honestly, at $100 with crappy action, they could use Unobtainium for the blade and the knife would still be incredibly over-priced.

The Skyline was one of my first "nice" knives and you can see I have a soft spot in my heart for it...
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Hashishiin said:
Oh, that sucks :/ I will probably go for the cheaper, better made USA model then, if I get a Kershaw, and get Jade on a different knife.
154CM or whatever they use on the Leek is fine with me.
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If you want to try an American made flipper from Kershaw, I highly recommend the Dividend.
 
Reswob said:
I've never seen a skyline that would open without a ton of wrist flick. Get a Leek or Blur (or Dividend if you're okay with a flipper tab only) instead. You won't get 20CV or jade G10, but you will get a knife that opens reliably!
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I’ve never cut anything with an opening system. Only sharp steel knife blades.
 
powernoodle said:
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Someone's getting a new knife soon! 🤣
 
$100? Maybe if it had a bearing pivot as well as the CPM-20CV. I hate G-10, Jade especially. Give some nice micarta or cf, 20cv, and kvt.
 
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