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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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They have no problems with those!
Everyone raves about the CRK warranty but after reading some of the threads on this forum I'm less and less confident. CR seems really anal about "flicking" and doesn't want "dirty laundry" aired on these forums. Nothing I can really put my finger on but a lot of "oh he's been an expert on knife abuse for over thirty years" and "we switched to a solid thumbstud but there wasn't a problem with the two-piece design" (even though the very knife Reeve HIMSELF was carrying flew apart and had to be loctited back together). Look around the archives and decide for yourself. You'll see a lot of flacks and sychophants hearalding the great CRK warranty but you gotta wonder if they've actually had to exercise it.
And if the warranty REALLY IS all it's cracked up to be, why can't we send our Zaans that have the two piece thumbstuds in and have them upgraded to the new solid stud design? Hmmmm....
And we can't even nail down a changeover date for the one-piece thumbstud, you know, the thumbstud that isn't actually an improvement as the two-piece wasn't "an issue". :jerkit:
Everyone raves about the CRK warranty but after reading some of the threads on this forum I'm less and less confident. CR seems really anal about "flicking" and doesn't want "dirty laundry" aired on these forums. Nothing I can really put my finger on but a lot of "oh he's been an expert on knife abuse for over thirty years" and "we switched to a solid thumbstud but there wasn't a problem with the two-piece design" (even though the very knife Reeve HIMSELF was carrying flew apart and had to be loctited back together). Look around the archives and decide for yourself. You'll see a lot of flacks and sychophants hearalding the great CRK warranty but you gotta wonder if they've actually had to exercise it.
And if the warranty REALLY IS all it's cracked up to be, why can't we send our Zaans that have the two piece thumbstuds in and have them upgraded to the new solid stud design? Hmmmm....
And we can't even nail down a changeover date for the one-piece thumbstud, you know, the thumbstud that isn't actually an improvement as the two-piece wasn't "an issue". :jerkit:
Everyone raves about the CRK warranty but after reading some of the threads on this forum I'm less and less confident. CR seems really anal about "flicking" and doesn't want "dirty laundry" aired on these forums. Nothing I can really put my finger on but a lot of "oh he's been an expert on knife abuse for over thirty years" and "we switched to a solid thumbstud but there wasn't a problem with the two-piece design" (even though the very knife Reeve HIMSELF was carrying flew apart and had to be loctited back together). Look around the archives and decide for yourself. You'll see a lot of flacks and sychophants hearalding the great CRK warranty but you gotta wonder if they've actually had to exercise it.
And if the warranty REALLY IS all it's cracked up to be, why can't we send our Zaans that have the two piece thumbstuds in and have them upgraded to the new solid stud design? Hmmmm....
And we can't even nail down a changeover date for the one-piece thumbstud, you know, the thumbstud that isn't actually an improvement as the two-piece wasn't "an issue". :jerkit:
Everyone raves about the CRK warranty but after reading some of the threads on this forum I'm less and less confident. CR seems really anal about "flicking" and doesn't want "dirty laundry" aired on these forums. Nothing I can really put my finger on but a lot of "oh he's been an expert on knife abuse for over thirty years" and "we switched to a solid thumbstud but there wasn't a problem with the two-piece design" (even though the very knife Reeve HIMSELF was carrying flew apart and had to be loctited back together). Look around the archives and decide for yourself. You'll see a lot of flacks and sychophants hearalding the great CRK warranty but you gotta wonder if they've actually had to exercise it.
And if the warranty REALLY IS all it's cracked up to be, why can't we send our Zaans that have the two piece thumbstuds in and have them upgraded to the new solid stud design? Hmmmm....
And we can't even nail down a changeover date for the one-piece thumbstud, you know, the thumbstud that isn't actually an improvement as the two-piece wasn't "an issue". :jerkit:
Well that almost certainly makes mine an early model then. The new thumblug requires blade replacement? First I've heard of that. I hope you are mistaken about this.The thumblug question was answered in detail elsewhere. Timing? Sometime in July they began changing over to the solid thumblug. Sending in an old one for replacement? It requires a new blade to accept the new thumblug. Not a reasonable option when nothing has gone wrong with the original.
Well that almost certainly makes mine an early model then. The new thumblug requires blade replacement? First I've heard of that. I hope you are mistaken about this.
I had a warrenty issue, having owned over 30 CRK knives at one time or another, its bound to happen. I sent the knife in, takes about 4-5 days from PA, Mr. Reeve called me personally early the next week and described in detail what had happened and what he was going to do to fix it. We spoke aprox 1/2 hour on the phone. Mr. Reeve is a very busy man and for him to take the time to call me personally, to me, that tells you something. I have sold nearly every other knife I own and use the funds to buy CRK exclusively. The only other knives I have or have owned in the $400 + range are striders and as much as I like them, they are no CRK Sebenza. I really like my SMF and its definately a keeper, but I would take my large regular sebenza any day, thats how much confidence I have in it. And I also know if I ever have a warrenty issue, Mr. Reeve will fix it and make it right......The abused sebenza that has been talked about, would any of you fix it for free if it came into your shop ??? Hell NO. Plus to have the story change 1/2 dozen times, give me a break...........CRK has made Thousands upon Thousands of knives in their 30+ years. They would not have made it this far if their reputation of quality and customer service were not up to par. I am sure if you look, you will find far more people that are happy with their CRK knives and any warrenty issue they may have had, than the few stumble bums that have had issues. And when you see knives that were clearly abused and they whine and cry about a warrenty not being fulfilled ?? Put yourself in CRK shoes. He even offered to fix it for a price even though there was obvious abuse. Now thats customer service. I take my hat off to Mr. Reeve, not only for his ground breaking knives, but for his ground breaking customer service :thumbup::thumbup:
Yeah, I seen those pics. Didn't look a heckuvalot different from the Seb I carry (with the exception of those scratch marks). Pay close attention to the pics of the lockbar however. Those pics look an awful lot like MY lockbar and I don't flick my knife open. This (along with some other stuff that's been on these forums of late) have given me pause concerning the "legendary" CRK warranty. I heard the Woodsmonkey.com interview where CR stated that they've replaced entire scales after "dremel accidents" and that gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling. But what I've been seeing on these forums here lately gives me a little pause.
The whole thing about the thumbstud on the Zaan has me concerned. Do I have an "early" model? I dunno, there's been no definative dates of the changeover announced. Should I be concerned? Well, the thumbstud DOES serve double duty as the stop pin. Is an "upgrade" the same as a "warranty". Probably not. But there's been no pricing announced for upgrades to the new solid thumbstud. I don't want anything to do with the two piece design and I don't even know if I have one. No way to tell without a changeover date announcement. That's a little un-nerving from my standpoint.![]()
There you go!
Thanks for the better clarification nyef!