Kershaw Red Snap-On Question

northend816

northend816

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Ive been looking for a red snap-on skyline and ive come across something.....Ive seen some with April 09 stamped on blade that come in grey Kershaw box and some that dont have stamped date at all that come in red Kershaw box. Is this due to several different productions of the knife? Just something ive even and had me wondering
 
I really don't know the answer to your question although I was born on April 9. Ultimately, you will realize that there are many makers out there infinitely better than Kershaw. Let the SHTF in 54321...
 
At some point, Kershaw stopped stamping the dates on their knives. I have a few ZT knives and a lot more Kershaw knives that have the stamp and others that don't. Sometimes blade markings move around. Doesn't really make them any more or less valuable. It's more of an issue that pertains to the manufacturer more than the ELU.

mrynecy said:
I really don't know the answer to your question although I was born on April 9. Ultimately, you will realize that there are many makers out there infinitely better than Kershaw. Let the SHTF in 54321...
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I don't really know what the purpose of the quoted post is, but I certainly hope it is not in an effort in incite problems. Because if it is, I have a solution that may not go ver well...
 
Grey boxes are the older production boxes and Red are the newer ones. They stopped putting dates on blades mainly to speed up the production. They're the same knife.
 
Thanks for the info guys I was starting to wonder alittle about the differences and if one may hold more value than the other.
 
There weren't several different productions. Far as I know, only two. The original production included the older box and date markings. Those ended in 09, and what you're likely seeing on eBay now is what was sold at the Warehouse sale. Those were extra pieces that were placed in plain current generation boxes and sold for $19 I think. Since people saw that a couple of Snap-On Skylines sold for a lot of money, they snapped up the ones at the sale and posted them for high prices.

So...that's the meat and potatoes of it I think.
 
Didn't Kershaw change from 13C26 to 14C28N around that time (early 2009)? Maybe the date stamp was used to mark the change in steel?
 
Also thred snap-on knockout everyone has been talking about scoring at sale.....Was that knife ever released to public or was it just small patch found at sale? I ask because ive never seen or heard of them til now and it seems that way to many others as well???
 
I have a Damascus Skyline dated Sep 08, anyone know how many were made? Is it rare? I've been using it once in awhile. Thanks for any info. Gary
 
northend816 said:
Also thred snap-on knockout everyone has been talking about scoring at sale.....Was that knife ever released to public or was it just small patch found at sale? I ask because ive never seen or heard of them til now and it seems that way to many others as well???
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They primarily sell on Snap-On trucks.
 
KennyB said:
Weird, I have a Kershaw in 14C28N that has no datestamp and came in a grey box.
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That fits in right around when they quit marking them. The no date stamp and the steel change from 13c26n to 14c28n on some models was close. They both would have the same gray box however. If memory serves me right, I think the last dated pieces were marked May of 09 or thereabouts. Some changed sooner and some later depending on where they were in the production schedule, and since we don't have an exact date we use that as a cut off for the switch.

northend816 said:
Also thred snap-on knockout everyone has been talking about scoring at sale.....Was that knife ever released to public or was it just small patch found at sale? I ask because ive never seen or heard of them til now and it seems that way to many others as well???
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There are a ton of snap-on exclusives people don't readily know about. The knockout being the latest. There were aluminum colored speed bumps, shallots, leeks, scallions, blurs, chubbies and quite a few other models. All were sold through snap-on with out boxes except a few in plain jane white boxes. They don't ever tell us about these because they aren't available for the public outside the snap-on trucks.
 
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