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This has been an interesting thread! It certainly came a long and good way from the OP
I cannot compete with some of the knowledge and experience here, but I can suggest that in recent years CRK has added several treatments to the lockbar face that prevent (in my use) the problems that STeven mentions.
The Sebenza 21 uses a treatment to the face of the lock bar that prevents this sticky lock that was mentioned.
The Sebenza 25 uses a ceramic ball interface that achieves the same.
The Umnumzaan uses a ceramic ball interface, and has a stabilizer of sorts, but this was added to prevent over travel.
Thanks for your enlightening discussion STeven. I dont entirely agree with your handle to blade ratio preference, but I understand it. We all use them differently and that is why options are nice. Any claim that one ratio (or range thereof) is bad and should never be used is one I (respectfully) reject, we are all free to spend accordinglyI do not think the knife industry is in any peril because some idiot makers are producing trash. Similarly, I dont think the hoards of people lining up to overspend on hyped garbage really hurts the industry either. Free markets are good
Thanks again. This has been a fun and interesting read (seriously).
STeven if you don't want your opinions to be doctrine don't present them as such. You have so much knowledge to offer and you do a good job of sharing it(most of the time). Why do you have to give your opinion in such a brass and uncouth way when it's not ask our called for? I just can't understand what you are trying to accomplish in some situations.
Rather than rehash, I'll try to let a past thread do the job.
Feel free to comment here, whatever you come up with.
Les got banned shortly after this thread got started. He was another brass and uncouth fellow with opinions....and much knowledge to offer.
I miss his input on the forums, and I miss Anthony Lombardo as well.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/998900-Les-Robertson-is-my-hero-things-change
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
That was a good post and I respect that. It still doesn't change the fact that practical or impractical, correct to tradition or not, he liked his knife that he bought with his money. Some people just don't take kindly to being told that their new knife "sucks". It's kind of comes off as an insult. Granted, he took it too personal and sounded like a Jack wagon. It's not that your response "sucks"I just feel your wording could be a little more tactful. Anyway, I've said more than I know and I respect your knowledge I just wish it would be shared without sounding so condescending.
That was a good post and I respect that. It still doesn't change the fact that practical or impractical, correct to tradition or not, he liked his knife that he bought with his money. Some people just don't take kindly to being told that their new knife "sucks". It's kind of comes off as an insult. Granted, he took it too personal and sounded like a Jack wagon. It's not that your response "sucks"I just feel your wording could be a little more tactful. Anyway, I've said more than I know and I respect your knowledge I just wish it would be shared without sounding so condescending.
I hear you.
I wish that the hair on the back of my neck didn't stand up when I see some of the knives that I do these days.
I wish I didn't have a visceral reaction to immediately denigrate these types of folding sharpened prybars, but they fly in the face of all that so many have worked so hard to make "better".
None of us is perfect, and I'll keep trying to develop more tact, and spew less acid when I post about these things.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
Thanks for your understanding! I really mean that. PeaceI hear you.
I wish that the hair on the back of my neck didn't stand up when I see some of the knives that I do these days.
I wish I didn't have a visceral reaction to immediately denigrate these types of folding sharpened prybars, but they fly in the face of all that so many have worked so hard to make "better".
None of us is perfect, and I'll keep trying to develop more tact, and spew less acid when I post about these things.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
Hi Randy,
Have you not seen the threads where they are running almost 6 months past delivery date and not efficiently/effectively communicating with customers?
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1129070-Direware-Books/page2?highlight=direware
STeven Garsson
He may run a few months late on the quoted time, which basically is a very rough estimate he throws out, but the great thing with Eric is he doesn't take any deposit or full payment up front. Once you knife is built he contacts you and if you want it great if you dont no problem.
I understand what you're saying.......but really...... Why should anyone feel the need to "correct" the knife industry?
As long as people like you and places like this exist, there will always be a demand for the high quality knives that you like.
And besides, it's much easier to shape the future through education than through insulting the things and people you don't like. I know you try to educate THROUGH your criticisms, but perhaps it's starting to get to the point where your criticisms no longer do that. My guess is that you've just been in the game for so long that you've lost interest in continuing to explain things, and find it easier to just throw out a critical remark or two. And I can understand that.
This thread has been the first time I've ever been in contact with you, but even in this short period of time you've managed to teach me things I didn't previously know. Your responses to me were very civil and informative for the most part and it really made a difference. Had you responded in a more condescending and snobbish manner, I wouldn't have learned nearly as easily as I did, and would have been very turned off to the world of custom knives in general. So thank you for that
He sold my knife out from under me when I took a couple hours to reply to an email. I was at work.
If they are drawn to this over-hyped tactical thing and get burned, they are likely to leave and never return. There is no such thing as too many collectors in the room.
A deposit or payment up front shouldn't even be part of the dialogue.
A maker is only as good as his word....his customers should come somewhere right after spirituality and family.
Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
There is a big difference between over-hyped and a bubble.I've stated in the past, to some folk's chagrin, that the tactical folder market is in a bubble