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That ain't helping the situation.
Words like "bank-vault feel" and others saying "this is the most solid knife I've ever handled", the results should mesh with these statements. They in fact do not. A feeling is a powerful emotion, in the case of the Sebenza, its powerful deception. "Beware a knife that feels solid", said seconds before the 2nd straight from the box Sebenza went down.
The CS tests are gimmicky, true, but as I said they prove what a blade can or cannot take. They are as much as test of CS as they are their competitors. And some of them do really well, and their valiant performances are enough to sell you on them.
I'm going to retract my gimmicky comment now actually, publicly testing your product for all to see should never be considered such.
I'm pretty anti-hype. These testing videos, that are gaining in popularity, do not count as hype because they prove themselves time and again, while sometimes proving true the strength and hype of some other well-touted locks.
My last line there is a very telling one:
At $410 price point, it should have at least outperformed the $40 knife that started a lawsuit (CRKT M16-14cz54321??).
We're talking solid titanium. 410 USD dollars. Outperformed (not by much, but still outperformed) by $40 prone-to-exploding-under-duress Zytel. This is where hype shatters. All 25 years of it. A Sebenza owner may never admit it out loud, but it is what they feel.