A real or Fake Sebenza 25?!

Gilbert G

Gilbert G

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Recently was browsing a common large public marketplace and discovered what appears to be an authentic Sebenza 25 for sale. I don't think I've ever made such a post as this but wanted to get ya'lls thoughts an expertise as I believe someone is going to get gypped big time. It's been awhile since I owned a 25 but there is something off about this knife. The screws appear a little different, the Idaho Made font doesn't sit well and the blade curvature or cut seems strange. At the same time, the box and the leather slip look authentic. Was this a transitional release like a prototype Sebenza 25?

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Large Sebenza (please read description) | eBay

This is a storage locker find. I have included photos of everything that was in the box with it. It's a very solid knife but it is being sold AS-IS. Good Luck.
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Under that listing are a bunch of Sebenza 25 STYLE knives, which look like Sebenzas and have genuine-looking CRK boxes and other stuff, all probably bought off the internet separately to accompany the fake knives.
 
Hmmm....apart from the torx body screws it looks good to me, though the pictures don't show everything. I am not at home so I can't check the Idaho font.

The first couple of batches of the 25 did have the floating stop pin (though I think it was press fit on the obverse side rather than truly floating). Without the birth card to verify, perhaps ask for pictures inside the scales to check the date code. The floating pins would have been late 2012 or early 2013.

I don't know why someone would replace the body screws with torx, but stranger things have happened. The pivot screw looks beat, maybe the body screws were messed up.

Edited to add - the font looks off (one letter is wrong) and a few other things look off, so I'm going with the Fake conclusion.
 
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