UPDATED: BladeForums Special Edition Skyline interest thread

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Part of the advantage of the Skyline is that the parts aren't lasered out - that saves costs, and has much more consistency with less hand fitting per knife. When we start talking about knives that aren't even made, then the prices start to skyrocket. BELIEVE ME, I would love a 3.5" blade skyline.

Hell, I loved the Junkyard Dog.

But a completely new design (and upsizing is a new design) isn't in the cards for right now.

Also, I'm not going into details but I got a surprise message this morning. Interesting developments afoot.
 
Spark said:
Part of the advantage of the Skyline is that the parts aren't lasered out - that saves costs, and has much more consistency with less hand fitting per knife. When we start talking about knives that aren't even made, then the prices start to skyrocket. BELIEVE ME, I would love a 3.5" blade skyline.\
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ah...perhaps my tangent (for that's what it was, tangential to the desire for a BF Skyline) was misinterpreted.

that was an aside for Thomas, not contributory to the current thread - my bad and my apologies.

my desire is:

for this one for the bladeforum "special edition"??? pull a higher-end steel from the racks, give me tasteful engraving on the blade, a deep carry pocket clip and a ranger green G10 handle or similar. i'll buy 3 at the stated price point in that config, and one if it's blue scales just to have one. if the price drops, my interest goes up and quickly at that.
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hope that clears it up...
 
I'd love to buy a LE Skyline that's BFC exclusive. I have a few thoughts:

To me, the Skyline is a great knife as-is. The point to a forum knife (in my mind) would be to celebrate the existing design rather than alter it. An exclusive color and small engraving would be more than sufficient in that regard. Anything beyond that likely starts increasing costs, dissuading some folks from joining in on the fun. My wish would be to put in a few exclusive changes without raising costs too significantly.

It appears most members want some sort of steel upgrade. Personally, I'm fine with the Sandvik steel, especially considering that a lot of folks probably aren't going to carry this knife and those that do aren't likely to beat on it. That said, if the steel must be upgraded, I'd be interested in Kershaw's existing 14C28N/CPM D2 composite as Halfneck suggested earlier. I'm guessing this would be a nice compromise between the desire for a tougher and different steel choice while likely being less expensive to produce than S30V (again, this is just a guess). Still unique, still exclusive, but possibly putting the final price within reach of more members. And if a new steel is a guarantee, I request that it not be bead-blasted.

As for a deep carry pocket clip, same thing: if it's going to increase costs much, leave it off. That I know of, Kershaw doesn't already have a drop-in replacement for the Skyline's current pocket clip so this may require added costs in machining or alterations to the G10 and liners (pure speculation on my part, sorry if this isn't the case). If the deep carry clip does end up on the final model, I humbly request that the hole pattern remains true to the original Skyline, so those of us who don't want it can purchase and/or swap the standard clip in.

As for color, I'd like to see something bright and distinctive. Blue's starting to be done to death, but I do like it and it looks to be the most popular choice at this point. I'd also like to see lime or neon green or even neon yellow.

Finally, thanks very much to both Kevin and Thomas for doing this. Whatever you folks decide on, I'm sure it will be a great knife and sold at a fair price.
 
would really like the forum blue or toxic green g10, ffg, s30v or some other up-graded steel. i think i'm in either way but i'm really excited to hear the new news, spark.
 
notsobrite said:
would really like the forum blue or toxic green g10, ffg, s30v or some other up-graded steel. i think i'm in either way but i'm really excited to hear the new news, spark.
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Wrong forum for that color though, this isn't the usn.
 
The ONLY thing that would keep me from buying a couple of these is toxic green G-10. :barf:
 
With a FFG S30V blade and colored G-10 scales, I'd be on board for one. If the blade finish could be stonewashed (instead of the production Skyline's bead-blasting), I might even order two or three.
 
S30V and full flat would be perfect for me, don't really care much about the G-10 color.
 
Would it be possible to get 1/2 of them in one color G10 and the other 1/2 in a different color? So 300 in blue and 300 in dark green? Not knowing how the manufacturing works, it seems like it would just be a simple thing to do.
 
Alright the new mission of this thread is to get Spark to tell what the interesting developments are! So who has a car batttery and jumper cables?
 
It looks like S30V is in the lead. I can not commit to this. It looks like there's more than enough interest though.
 
allyourblood said:
I'd love to buy a LE Skyline that's BFC exclusive. I have a few thoughts:

To me, the Skyline is a great knife as-is. The point to a forum knife (in my mind) would be to celebrate the existing design rather than alter it. An exclusive color and small engraving would be more than sufficient in that regard. Anything beyond that likely starts increasing costs, dissuading some folks from joining in on the fun. My wish would be to put in a few exclusive changes without raising costs too significantly.

It appears most members want some sort of steel upgrade. Personally, I'm fine with the Sandvik steel, especially considering that a lot of folks probably aren't going to carry this knife and those that do aren't likely to beat on it. That said, if the steel must be upgraded, I'd be interested in Kershaw's existing 14C28N/CPM D2 composite as Halfneck suggested earlier. I'm guessing this would be a nice compromise between the desire for a tougher and different steel choice while likely being less expensive to produce than S30V (again, this is just a guess). Still unique, still exclusive, but possibly putting the final price within reach of more members. And if a new steel is a guarantee, I request that it not be bead-blasted.

As for a deep carry pocket clip, same thing: if it's going to increase costs much, leave it off. That I know of, Kershaw doesn't already have a drop-in replacement for the Skyline's current pocket clip so this may require added costs in machining or alterations to the G10 and liners (pure speculation on my part, sorry if this isn't the case). If the deep carry clip does end up on the final model, I humbly request that the hole pattern remains true to the original Skyline, so those of us who don't want it can purchase and/or swap the standard clip in.

As for color, I'd like to see something bright and distinctive. Blue's starting to be done to death, but I do like it and it looks to be the most popular choice at this point. I'd also like to see lime or neon green or even neon yellow.

Finally, thanks very much to both Kevin and Thomas for doing this. Whatever you folks decide on, I'm sure it will be a great knife and sold at a fair price.
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