Kershaw cryo 2

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Parksy

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Hi Guys,

So I'm in Moscow and I walk into a knife shop and I see a Cyro 2 - wanted one for a while and it checked out so I bought $35. After getting to my apartment I weigh it. 1.60g or 5.9 ounces .. according to specs on website it's 5grams overweight or .4 ounces. Now is that possible ?
All markings are accurate - although Kershaw website show gimping around the bottom edge of the grip in one photo and not in another ...

Weight difference can only be accounted for by material ...so I'm amazed at the accuracy of the fake... but I'm in Moscow where they freeze vodka ...not so it tastes better ... to check if it freezes! What are your thoughts ?
 
Dude man bro, firstly 5.9oz = 167.3g not 1.60g. seems like you aren't math focused at this moment.
Have you checked the accuracy of your scale? eg a nickel [5 cent] weighs 5.00g. I checked and you are correct in the weight of the knife should be 5.4oz. Did it come in a Kershaw box?
 
It could be your scale, but in my experience many productions knives vary somewhat in weight from the specs.

I grabbed a nearby example, my Emerson Mini Commander: specs say 4.0 oz., my postal scale (calibrated and used regularly) says 5.0 oz.
 
Dadpool said:
It could be your scale, but in my experience many productions knives vary somewhat in weight from the specs.

I grabbed a nearby example, my Emerson Mini Commander: specs say 4.0 oz., my postal scale (calibrated and used regularly) says 5.0 oz.
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I've seen that too.
 
A Kershaw Cryo 2 should weigh 5.5 to 5.65 oz (variations depend on slight differences in models, see a site like BladeHQ which lists detailed specs). If your scale shows 5.9 oz, that's a variation of 0.25 oz, basically one fourth of 1 oz, a very small difference and that could be your scale.

You might take detailed pics and post them here, also send to Kershaw customer service, I'd bet between folks here who own them and Kershaw, you can quickly ID if it's authentic.
 
klute said:
Dude man bro, firstly 5.9oz = 167.3g not 1.60g. seems like you aren't math focused at this moment.
Have you checked the accuracy of your scale? eg a nickel [5 cent] weighs 5.00g. I checked and you are correct in the weight of the knife should be 5.4oz. Did it come in a Kershaw box?
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Cheers Klute -

Wow you gotta be on your toes here. missed a decimal point and the scale and it rounds up to 16g in metric. Reads 5.9 in imperial. Still quite a bit over - ?

I have examined all graphics and other dimensions. Apart from the gimping on the Kershaw website which is different in both of their pictures (which doesn't help) The Box is perfect - I have other Kershaw knives..

It's so sturdy, well manufactured and well it's brilliant. But....It's just heavier than I thought so weighed it and it's .4 over... now even some of the best engineers in the world get their figures wrong (VW) cough..

But would you think it's a material thing or a spec issue?
 
Dadpool said:
It could be your scale, but in my experience many productions knives vary somewhat in weight from the specs.

I grabbed a nearby example, my Emerson Mini Commander: specs say 4.0 oz., my postal scale (calibrated and used regularly) says 5.0 oz.
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So -- manufacturers do sometimes under weight their specs ?
 
Parksy said:
So -- manufacturers do sometimes under weight their specs ?
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No idea. I've always assumed it came down to minor variations in the materials adding up: a slightly thicker scale and/or liner, more or less material ground off the blade, etc. All within manufacturing tolerances, nothing shady; just enough stuff combined to make a few grams of difference between two examples of the same knife.
 
Yeah - but half an ounce is a large percentage of the overall knife. So it makes a noticeable difference ! So is it a clone or isn't it ? (If your selling stuff by the gram it sure does)
 
Parksy said:
So is it a clone or isn't it ?
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Hard to say without pictures. On its own, I wouldn't take the weight being off by that much to mean that it's a fake/clone.

If you Google the model and "fake" or "clone" you'll find at least a few videos and threads showing some differences that you can check.
 
Dadpool said:
It could be your scale, but in my experience many productions knives vary somewhat in weight from the specs.

I grabbed a nearby example, my Emerson Mini Commander: specs say 4.0 oz., my postal scale (calibrated and used regularly) says 5.0 oz.
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This can mean only one thing.....you are over paying on postage.
 
bflying said:
This can mean only one thing.....you are over paying on postage.
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When I go to the post office with packages that have to be re-weighed (usually those with customs forms), my recorded weight is within 0.1 oz. of theirs. I wouldn't stake my life on this scale, but it's not an ounce off. ;)
 
Parksy said:
Cheers Klute -

Wow you gotta be on your toes here. missed a decimal point and the scale and it rounds up to 16g in metric. Reads 5.9 in imperial. Still quite a bit over - ?

But would you think it's a material thing or a spec issue?
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Parksy bro. Are we talking 16g is the difference between the 'spec weight' and your actual 'measured weight'??
OR are you saying that your scale is telling you "5.9oz imperial and when you switch to metric it reads 16g metric"?

I think it is the former but from the way you write you are indicating the latter.

It can be either material or spec, this is one of those questions that will take that missing and mystical ingredient of TIME and research to figure out. Best luck.
I almost bought a Cryo but it's a midget,....and to be honest I am glad I didn't.
 
Your best bet is to find someone here [start a new thread maybe] who has the exact same model and ask them for it's precise weight.

By the by, what brought you to Moscow?
 
i have nothing to add to fake Kershaws but I will add that I like my Cryo II, my stay-in-car knife. Real sharp, cuts stuff. No complaints.

Now I want a frozen Vodka popsicle.
 
I haven't noticed any fake Cryo 2's as far as I know, but I have seen counterfeit Oso Sweet knives on teh interwebz which I find odd that they would bootleg a budget knife anyway but whatever.
 
I had a Cryo 2 for a while - what a p.o.s.
The only reason I had it as long as I did was I couldn't bring myself to throw it away... so it became a project. I took the coating off the grinds, sanded them to an almost satin finish (flats still black), sharpened it a few times, forgot about it for a while, and finally have it away.
I wouldn't doubt that there are some fakes - they did the Leek, after all.
 
hhmoore said:
I had a Cryo 2 for a while - what a p.o.s.
The only reason I had it as long as I did was I couldn't bring myself to throw it away... so it became a project. I took the coating off the grinds, sanded them to an almost satin finish (flats still black), sharpened it a few times, forgot about it for a while, and finally have it away.
I wouldn't doubt that there are some fakes - they did the Leek, after all.
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My uncle and cousins both got them for Christmas a year ago and they were definitely total crap.
My uncles completely fell apart, and my cousins had the pivot screw fall out when he opened it so I tried to tighten it for him but it was the typical flea market special situation, either way too much blade play or it wouldn't deploy all the way like a stupedly spring assisted knife should. I acquired a SOG flash 2 from the pay it forward thread here and it hasn't let him down.
Not sure how they would both end up with lemons, but I guess it could happen.
 
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