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Hi all!
I've been using now my Kershaw Skyline for about a month. A great EDC carrier.
Here are my observations:
Out of my 6 Kersahw's Skyline's liner lock offers least resist when disengaging. This makes it easier to close with one hand. Makes me worry slightly, but Skylines designs anyway prevent blade closing on my fingers. For example Zing's liner is offering more resistance while they're nearly same thickness.
The blade wobbles when shaken (when its closed ) if Pivot is not tighten nearly fully. When tighten enough, blade becomes slightly stiffer, eliminating closed wobble and making blade opening slightly slower. Even when blade wobbles, there's no blade play any direction when opened. Combined with slightly more wrist action than with other my Kersahw's blade opens fast, but still behind my Kershaw NRG2 / Ener-G2 or Kershaw Zing which opens as fast or faster than my A/O Kershaw needs work.
So in my model there is trade of minor wobble and speedier opening or no wobble slightly slower opening. Difference is small but noticable.
Blade design is excellent for light to medium cutting. I've been using this in kitchen cutting vegetables and meat no problem. No rust yet, albeit I always clean my knife when used and in Skyline's case I also re-coat slight layer of food grade mineral oil / paraffin oil on its blade
G-10 handles were more troubelsome to clean than Zing's polyamide handles but G-10 feels better in hand than polyamide.
Skyline's style pocket clip is very nice and extremely usable. Its not hard to use even with belt, unlike some pocket clips are. Simple but rugged design.
Skyline is my favourite EDC with Zing (when I take locking folder with me ). It fits well in hand, has good steel and is very sharp out of the box.
I am considering getting another Skyline in next year. This is such great little knife... Or then I'll try Kershaw OD-1... We'll see.
I've been using now my Kershaw Skyline for about a month. A great EDC carrier.
Here are my observations:
Out of my 6 Kersahw's Skyline's liner lock offers least resist when disengaging. This makes it easier to close with one hand. Makes me worry slightly, but Skylines designs anyway prevent blade closing on my fingers. For example Zing's liner is offering more resistance while they're nearly same thickness.
The blade wobbles when shaken (when its closed ) if Pivot is not tighten nearly fully. When tighten enough, blade becomes slightly stiffer, eliminating closed wobble and making blade opening slightly slower. Even when blade wobbles, there's no blade play any direction when opened. Combined with slightly more wrist action than with other my Kersahw's blade opens fast, but still behind my Kershaw NRG2 / Ener-G2 or Kershaw Zing which opens as fast or faster than my A/O Kershaw needs work.
So in my model there is trade of minor wobble and speedier opening or no wobble slightly slower opening. Difference is small but noticable.
Blade design is excellent for light to medium cutting. I've been using this in kitchen cutting vegetables and meat no problem. No rust yet, albeit I always clean my knife when used and in Skyline's case I also re-coat slight layer of food grade mineral oil / paraffin oil on its blade
G-10 handles were more troubelsome to clean than Zing's polyamide handles but G-10 feels better in hand than polyamide.
Skyline's style pocket clip is very nice and extremely usable. Its not hard to use even with belt, unlike some pocket clips are. Simple but rugged design.
Skyline is my favourite EDC with Zing (when I take locking folder with me ). It fits well in hand, has good steel and is very sharp out of the box.
I am considering getting another Skyline in next year. This is such great little knife... Or then I'll try Kershaw OD-1... We'll see.
