ceramic blade for Sebenza?

Dont et me wrong... I LOVE my Small Seby, (born 9/11/2000) but with the sebenza being so easy to take apart and all, it seems like it would be a good idea to have a few extra blade options available... Maybe a fully serrated, and the reason for my writing this... A CERAMIC blade... Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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I don't know if the blades are so easily swapped out. Each new blade for a given knife would have to be made specially for that knife, the tang mated to the lock.

But how about a bone saw ... ?

A ceramic blade would never be durable enough for a CRK and couldn't be a lot sharper than the BG-42 anyway!
 
Man, we have to get twenty-four hour times on these forums ... look at our posts:

archieblue posted 03-19-2001 12:40 PM
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Esav Benyamin posted 03-19-2001 11:18 PM
 
12:40pm is during most people's lunch break. 11:18pm is when most people are watching the late news. Esav I think you got your 12pms and 12 ams confused. It does look funny though.

As far as ceramic blades go, I don't think we will ever see one on a CR knife. CRK is not set up for making ceramic blades and would have to farm it out to Kyocera or some other company. That would make the Sebenza even more expensive. If a Boker with a Ti handle and ceramic blade goes for over one hundred dollars then a Plain Sebenza with ceramic blade would be too expensive to be profitable with such a limited market. He11, I'd like to see a Sebenza or Umfaan with a flat ground blade, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Paul
 
Paul, I've lived in a twenty-four hour world so long that an analog watch offends me
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Seriously, the "discrepancy" just caught my eye, but I wonder why we don't have 24-hour times on the entire internet. After all, we are world-wide -- just look at all the Asian/Pacific posters, the Europeans, the Californians ... !

What is it now, 1605Z ??? I'm losing my mind ..
 
Speaking of a Boker with a ceramic blade:

OPTIMA SERIES LOCKBLADE

4 3/4" closed, the Optima Series features optional interchangeable locking blades that switch out in seconds, then lock securely in place. This model has a grey bone handle with mirror-finish nickel silver bolsters and a 440C clip blade.

They also offer ceramic, bone saw, and guthook blades.
 
Esav,
I'm with you, I don't know why we couldn't just switch to 24 hour time for everything. Get rid of all that AM/PM nonsense. It would be much simpler. So would the metric system for that matter, which 99% of the countries of the world have figured out. Once you use the metric system for anything it is immediately apparent that it is much easier to work with. Most Americans only experience with the metric system is with 2l bottles, which stands out as an odd and lonely variant.

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Paul
 
Ceramics, even the composites are far more brittle than steel. I would not want to see what the blade on a Sebenza would look like after a few months of heavy use with a ceramic blade the way Reeves grinds his BG-42 ones (deep hollow grind and a thin edge).

I just finished sharpening a couple of ceramic blades from Boker. Both were mauled. Heavily chipped out the entire length, large pieces that you could see easily at arms length. One had the tip broken off. These were not used to cut nails or chop concrete either. As a light use paring knife, ok, but for a general utility knife - you will lose a lot of cutting ability to get the necessary durability.

-Cliff
 
With BG-42 as his standard, and Devon Thomas Stainless & Carbon damascus available, I can only think of a couple other materials I'd even be interested in as options on the Sebenza:
1. CPM420V
2. Stellite/Talonite
3. Mike Norris Stainless damascus
4. Mike Norris San Mai (420V core) damascus
5. Damasteel (fine grained particle metallurgy copies of ATS-34 and 12c27 in damascus layers)

Maybe the new S30V = Stainless 3V = CPM D2
or whatever might be a great knife steel WHEN Crucible gets it out and people have a chance to fine tune the heat treat for blade-width/thickness type hunks of the stuff.

I believe Chris has indicated they use magnetic chucks in fabricating/machining the Sebenza blades (radiusing spine? Drilling pivot hole? Machining the tang angle?), and so unless he bought some other kind of machine tool, that would rule out Stellite/Talonite for the most part.

 
24 hour format with UTC as the standard. If you know where you live and what time of year it is ... it should be simple.
 
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