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Kershaw Ideas For 2015 Line Up ?

AntlerCollector said:
ZT collab with RJ Martin TI framelock for around $200 street!!!
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Brother I have been asking for this for years now. Not sure it's going to ever happen. I think the problem is under performing RJ designs at the low level. The zing, chill, scrambler, all selling less than the Hinderer pieces. Which is why you see more Hinderer collaborations across the price spectrum
 
I read the title and I had to post, clicked on it and saw the same thing I thought already stated multiple times. Get rid of the 8cr steel and stick with at least 440c.

And please bring production back to the US. I think most people would buy a 30 dollar made in the US knife over a 25 dollar knife made in China. The uniformed masses don't know about sandvik, don't need elmax or g10 or titanium scales. They DO care about getting a good product for a good price even if it means paying just a little more, especially when they're walking through wal-mart and are surrounded by mostly crappy products made in China. It brings a little pride to most Americans knowing that American made products are on American shelves. They don't know or care that Kershaw is a Japanese owned company, they feel good knowing that Americans are working. Other countries generally consider American products better, too.
 
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A 56x with a wharncliffe blade.

More custom maker collaborations.

A Spyderco/ZT collaboration that offers a flipper with compression lock.
 
Yes! Please stop with 8cr13mov-H8cr(ap) steel: it is garbage. I'd even prefer Aus 8,but, can we all just move on to s30v? There have been a few designs I've been interested in. However they use 8cr. Never getting another knife with 8cr again
 
bodog said:
I read the title and I had to post, clicked on it and saw the same thing I thought already stated multiple times. Get rid of the 8cr steel and stick with at least 440c.

And please bring production back to the US. I think most people would buy a 30 dollar made in the US knife over a 25 dollar knife made in China. The uniformed masses don't know about sandvik, don't need elmax or g10 or titanium scales. They DO care about getting a good product for a good price even if it means paying just a little more, especially when they're walking through wal-mart and are surrounded by mostly crappy products made in China. It brings a little pride to most Americans knowing that American made products are on American shelves. They don't know or care that Kershaw is a Japanese owned company, they feel good knowing that Americans are working. Other countries generally consider American products better, too.
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Sorry, but...what? The vast, vast majority of the populace is far more likely to buy a $20 knife than a $40 knife. People on these forums are not representative of the public as a whole. The uninformed masses, as you put it, do NOT want to pay "just a little bit more", they are far far FAR more likely to pay $20 for a China Kershaw than they are to pay for a $35 US made knife(and that IS what you will be paying for a US made Kershaw). I know a lot of guys who carry a pocket knife but aren't "knife guys", you know what they carry? $20 Kershaws, $20 Gerbers, or even cheaper gas station knives. I am happy you are patriotic and all, but the fact of the matter is, most Americans are more concerned with how much an item costs than where it is made.
 
Edgesnarf said:
Yes! Please stop with 8cr13mov-H8cr(ap) steel: it is garbage. I'd even prefer Aus 8,but, can we all just move on to s30v? There have been a few designs I've been interested in. However they use 8cr. Never getting another knife with 8cr again
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8cr13mov has been a decent budget steel for me. What daily use do you go through? Please provide details, as I'm not trying to challenge, just trying to understand.

Also, KAI sells models with better steel. Just pony up some $.
 
I don't see it being very realistic for a switch to AUS-8 or 440C on the Chinese knives, because that adds overhead and ultimately means KAI either eats those costs or - more likely - passes it along to the consumer. Any company with as broad a product line as Kershaw is going to be very in-tune with what the competition offers at various price points, and if using 100% Chinese materials and manufacturing allows the Kershaw imports to stay at those same price points, alphabet soup steel is going to be part of the equation.

I realize that CRKT, Boker (Plus) and others offer a wider range of steels in their Chinese lines, but even if that puts a given knife at a point $5 beyond an otherwise comparable Kershaw, that's still $5 that a casual buyer might not want to spend on a knife they'll never use for more than cutting packing tape anyway.
 
I'd like to see a liner lock version of the Amplitude with aluminum body. I say this only because this would allow for the whole range of colors that Leeks and Blurs have. I've just never warmed up to the Leek blade shape, but could see myself collecting different color Amplitudes. I'm also waiting to pull the trigger on the G10 Cryo until they have different colors than just black.
 
Non recurve blades on new knives built on ZT 350, 200, 300 frames. Junkyard Dog with non-fugly tip up carry pocket clip. Also for fixed blades the Kershaw Camp series knives are awesome, maybe the same again but with different blade shapes, Barong/parang/golok/Bowie etc.
 
Loved the blade shape on the old Cyclones. Cyclone shaped blade on one or more of the ZT frames.
 
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