The Coolest Lightweight Flipper: Chill or Skyline?

anthony cheeseboro

anthony cheeseboro

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I have owned and really love both. I suspect the Skyline is a tad more heavy duty, but I think the Chill flips more smoothly. As pure pocket carry for EDC, I think the Chill has the edge. What do you guys think?
 
My brother next to me has his Chill on his pocket and I have my Skyline on my pocket. I give the skyline a big edge for better steel and better blade shape. The chill does have a good opening action for sure but I polished the bushings in my skyline with 600 grit sandpaper and put some quality oil on them and it is just as slick now. Other than that, the multiple variants of the skyline are cool.
 
I like both, and have gotten suckered in to collecting Skylines. But I have 2x Chills as well (one gifted to me by the awesome Kershawguy), and they are a great knife - especially in a sub $20 knife. I like how thin they are (spine to cutting edge dimension) for easy pocket carry. So between the Chill and the Skyline, I'm probably one of the few folks who likes the Chill better. Imagine if they came in different colors, damascus, etc.

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Kershaw Chill.
 
oharal said:
My brother next to me has his Chill on his pocket and I have my Skyline on my pocket. I give the skyline a big edge for better steel and better blade shape. The chill does have a good opening action for sure but I polished the bushings in my skyline with 600 grit sandpaper and put some quality oil on them and it is just as slick now. Other than that, the multiple variants of the skyline are cool.
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Is Sanvik really much better than Chinese steel?
 
I love them both, but it's a little difficult to choose what one I like better. The Chill is super lightweight and has skeletonized liners, and it's a $20 knife. The scales on the Chill though are kind of slick compared to the Skyline. I also like the slightly wider blade of the Skyline compared to the Chills thinner blade (not talking about the actual cutting edge). Also, the Chill uses hex screws instead of torx, which makes cleaning it and adjusting the clip difficult. I like how easy it is to disengage the lock compared to the Skyline. It kind of "sticks" out of the liner. With the Skyline, it's kind of hard to disengage the lock because of the handles. I don't know. It's a tie I guess.
 
When I got those two, if I had not known, I may have thought the Chill was the more expensive of the two. The Skyline is missing the liner on one side, that is the first thing that caught my eye.
 
Kershaw Piston. I have a skyline and I passed on the chill after handling it at a knife shop, for me the piston beats them both. It's big, way lighter than it looks, assisted, and the blade shape and grind make it very useable. The handle actually fits in the hand, the problem I have with the skyline and chill is that the handles are too small.

I can't emphasize how light the piston is for it's size, you really have to hold one next to something else to get a sense of it.
 
I love my Chill, but the placement of the pocket clip so far to one side of the scale makes carrying tip-up a pain if you use the clip to rest your fingers on when opening/closing (in order to put your fingers on the clip, they end up at the edge of the scale near the blade).

Normally, I'd carry the knife with the clip in tip-down mode and just put the knife in my pocket, but the clip isn't super long and doing this puts it all the way at the back side of the scales.

I still love mine, but that clip thing is kind of annoying.
 
annasoH323 said:
Yay Zing! Regarding the OP's comment on flipping ability, doesn't a lot of that depend on specimen? I encountered a Chill that had a very hard time flipping
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Beat me to it. Best unassisted flipper=Zing. Got 2 more coming in this week. Get them before there gone or I will.
 
Have both and the skyline hands down. Better steal, better clip, more solid feel...
 
I agree that Zings are great. I had a tanto Zing that was smooth as butter. I'm not a huge tanto guy, but that knife was sweet. I love the size of the Chill and Skyline better than the size of the Zing.
 
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