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flash900

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For those who own a Skyline,
do you have a stonewashed blade
or bead blasted?

If the bead blasted Skyline blade, any corrosion issues?

Skyline sellers variously list the blade as either stonewashed or bead blasted.
Kershaw's own listing for model 1760 currently describes the blade as stonewashed.
 
i dont think they make a stonewashed version. it may be a misprint.

i've had my skyline a couple days and i am starting to notice surface corrosion. but i have rust issues with a lot of knives so dont take my experience as typical.
 
flash900 said:
For those who own a Skyline,
do you have a stonewashed blade
or bead blasted?

If the bead blasted Skyline blade, any corrosion issues?

Skyline sellers variously list the blade as either stonewashed or bead blasted.
Kershaw's own listing for model 1760 currently describes the blade as stonewashed.
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I see you have had a have a few inquiries on this subject within multiple threads that you've started.

Are you having trouble with corrosion on your knives in general?

To be accurate, despite what you have read on our site, or perhaps even heard from CS, the Skyline is and always has had a bead blasted finish. Hope that helps clarifying any confusion.
 
I am a recent Skyline owner and a big fan.
I'm wary of bead blasting, based solely upon the corrosion issues some users have reported.

I have no experience with bead blasting; my Skyline is brand new and has no issues.

I inquired about stonewashing because I just ordered a SECOND Skyline, which the seller -- Kershaw on Amazon -- describes as stonewashed.

It is also what Kershaw describes on its own site:

"The Skyline features a 3 1/8" blade of Sandvik 14C28N stainless steel with a stonewashed finish...."

The blade in the accompanying photo definitely looks stonewashed -- like my two S30V Blurs -- and unlike the red Skyline I just received.

So you can understand why consumers would be confused.

As always, Thomas, thank you for answering and clarifying.
 
flash900 said:
I am a recent Skyline owner and a big fan.
I'm wary of bead blasting, based solely upon the corrosion issues some users have reported.

I have no experience with bead blasting; my Skyline is brand new and has no issues.

I inquired about stonewashing because I just ordered a SECOND Skyline, which the seller -- Kershaw on Amazon -- describes as stonewashed.

It is also what Kershaw describes on its own site:

"The Skyline features a 3 1/8" blade of Sandvik 14C28N stainless steel with a stonewashed finish...."

The blade in the accompanying photo definitely looks stonewashed -- like my two S30V Blurs -- and unlike the red Skyline I just received.

So you can understand why consumers would be confused.

As always, Thomas, thank you for answering and clarifying.
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You have two options.

1. Scotchbrite pad, Black-T, CeraKote, sandpaper in varying grits, Triple-Aught steel wool, RemOil, TuffCloth

2. Live with it/sell it.

Skyline sells list the skyline as stonewashed because that's what the website says.

The website features a rendering of the skyline. It's not the finish on the skyline.

The skyline is beadblasted.

If you don't like it, refer to the above two solutions.

Let me put it this way. I tested a dozen of Kershaw's most bargain knives, from the budget value bin, and tortued them in Honduras. I didn't wash them. I didn't clean them. If they got lucky to get some acidic, salty sweat to wash off the residue, then that's what they got. Most of them were beadblasted.

All of them showed corrosion. All of them.

It took 30 min to clean up, back to brand spanking new condition.

I cleaned them up when I got back. I also sharpened them.

Just learn how to use step 1, and you're good to go.

I hope this clears everything up.
 
If a knife rusts and you "clean it up" it's no longer brand spanking new... To remove the rust you end up removing the metal finish/some metal.
 
As much as I love Kershaw as a company I absolutely hate there Bead Blasted finish in my humid enviroment my Kershaws rust like crazy I have to constantly oil them/buff rust off of them but still I continue to buy Kershaw knives because I feel they are incredible values for the money.
 
I'm starting to notice a little light rusting around the stop pins and pivot. I clean it with a toothbrush and some CLP. While it doesn't look new anymore, I think it gives the knife a little character.
 
I have seen where a few chaps have polished the blade on their Skyline. (it looked wicked cool)
I wonder what that would do to assist in the corrosion resistance department.
 
AKnife said:
If a knife rusts and you "clean it up" it's no longer brand spanking new... To remove the rust you end up removing the metal finish/some metal.
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Perhaps on the magnification level. I was not implying that you could sell it in new condition.

You have to take care of a blade just like you have to take care of a blade's edge. Just like with sharpening, if you let your corrosion continue unabated for a long time, you will end up removing more metal.

And yes, you can remove surface rust without removing the BB finish noticeably. I've done it.


And to those who still hate the beadblast finish, please see my earlier post. You can easily change the finish, it's not hard at all.
 
knivesandguns said:
And to those who still hate the beadblast finish, please see my earlier post. You can easily change the finish, it's not hard at all.
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This what you call easy?

"1. Scotchbrite pad, Black-T, CeraKote, sandpaper in varying grits, Triple-Aught steel wool, RemOil, TuffCloth"

Kershaw should simply stop advertising its easy to rust, bead-blasted blades as something it is not --stonewashed.

Now that really would be easy.
 
I'll make sure to give myself a demerit to go along with all my others flash900.
 
Thomas W said:
I'll make sure to give myself a gold star to go along with all my others flash900.
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fixed! :D

flash, i dont think its that big of a deal. you're making a small misprint sound like you got a knife with a pot metal blade.
 
Calm down Flash.

It's a simple mistake, not deliberate misrepresentation.

I don't have a problem with my beadblasted blades rusting, but then again, I take care of my stuff.
 
My Skyline in bead-blasted finish has never rusted.
I always inspect and clean my folder after work.
A bead-blast finish holds onto wax, Singer oil well which is what I do before placing a bead-blasted knife into storage.
 
flash900 said:
This what you call easy?

"1. Scotchbrite pad, Black-T, CeraKote, sandpaper in varying grits, Triple-Aught steel wool, RemOil, TuffCloth"

Kershaw should simply stop advertising its easy to rust, bead-blasted blades as something it is not --stonewashed.

Now that really would be easy.
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I guess you don't know what any of those are... oh that's right -- you complained about the 0551 rusting. Even though you didn't even buy one.

They aren't "advertising" it. Perhaps you should take a more amiable stance and stop going beserk about "easy-to-rust-bead-blasted-blades."

Your antics aren't welcome here, especially when others have made every attempt to passify your desires for a rustless world. You haven't even said your skyline has rusted, yet you're already complaining. Why'd you even buy it then?
 
To be accurate, despite what you have read on our site, or perhaps even heard from CS, the Skyline is and always has had a bead blasted finish. Hope that helps clarifying any confusion./QUOTE] Thomas my Skyline says Stonewashed. I am not complaining, I live in Florida and have carried my Skyline everyday to work in the hot and humid Florida Summer weather and I have not noticed any rust...I think you guys make great, affordable knives...just my happy opinion! keep it up! Thanks.
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This isn't about me. I just ordered my THIRD Skyline in less than a month. (And for the record, gunsandknives, I am one of the first owners of a 551.)

Numerous users here and elsewhere have reported that their bead-blasted knives rusted.

I politely sought information here and thanked Thomas for answering.

Thomas is the marketing veep, knows about truth in advertising and that consumers have every right to know what they're buying. I have no doubt he'll see to it that the misleading information on the website and Skyline boxes is fixed.
 
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flash900 said:
This isn't about me. I just ordered my THIRD Skyline in less than a month. (And for the record, gunsandknives, I am one of the first owners of a 551.)

Numerous users here and elsewhere have reported that their bead-blasted knives rusted.

I politely sought information here and thanked Thomas for answering.

Thomas is the marketing veep, knows about truth in advertising and that consumers have every right to know what they're buying. I have no doubt he'll see to it that the misleading information on the website and Skyline boxes is fixed.
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I'm bringing up the time when you were harping on the 0551 liners and you hadn't purchased one at the time. You were urging the entire world to get their liners back to Kershaw (including the ones who spent some time with sandpaper to take care of it) because the community needed to be saved from a liner with areas of corrosion on it. I don't need to go back and quote you.

Numerous users here have reported that their bead-blasted blades have NOT rusted as well. So WHAT if their blades rust--it's easy to oil your blade once in a while so that it won't in the first place; or, if in the case that it does, buff it off. Rust happens even to satin-finished blades. Ever seen an uncoated, satin M4-steel knife from the other big two after some use? Those even cost 10 times more than a skyline.

He already informed you, as has the forum that the skyline is beadblasted. (A quick Google search would have done the same)

Thomas' title is sales director. Not marketing.




whetrock said:
I realy wish Kershaw would produce some blades in stonewash I'd be a customer for sure.
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They do! S30V blur, S30V leek, Tremor, and the upcoming Knockout and Piston are all stonewashed. There are probably more, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head.
 
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