EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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The thing about CRK (in general, not just the Insingo) is that they can be deceptive.

"Yeah okay, another Titanium framelock, whoop-de-doo". Is what I thought, at first.

It took a while to understand that you're paying for something you can't really see.

Obviously, the warranty and customer service are a big part of it. It's very rare to see somebody talk about a negative experience with the knives and in those cases, I have seen usually Chris or Tim reach out personally to try and make it right.

The "bank vault feel" that people talk about has been kinda overshadowed now that it's much more common to see the kind of tolerances that were once pretty much exclusive to them. They were the only ones putting out a mid-tech with the amount of "flat, square, and parallel" that they had.

The other thing you're paying for is something that really can be the last knife you buy. You'll see some members here who use them for everything from cutting bags of concrete to a wedding cake, to their first-born's umbilical cord.

Maybe wash it in between, somewhere.

That's not something you can find very often, at any price, and it doesn't show up on a stats sheet on the internet. You only find it after years of dirt, sun, cold, candlelight, and living.
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I know I'm a little behind on posts after the holidays, but that's a very good point. And I think that the flat, square, and parallel, aka the tolerances that they finish things to, are still very unique. There are a lot of products in the same price range now, but I don't think a lot of them have the same tolerances. CRKs have a tolerance of 1/10th of a thousand of an inch. Another unique thing is a little ways back from the edge, the grind on a Sebenza is actually thinner than it is at the edge. The edge gets thicker immediately after the first sharpening on other knives, however it's gets a tiny bit thinner for a little bit on a Sebenza giving you longer life out of the blade (I don't know of another manufacturer that does this).🍻
 
I was tuning this old Benchmade auto and noticed that there was a tiny bit of verticle bladeplay in the lockup. I remembered (just from looking it over) that it has an eccentric stop pin (I think that's what they're called), where it's not a round stop pin like normal, but it actually has like 6 squared off faces on it and they each are ground to slightly different tolerances. I turned the stop pin to all the different faces and the one I was using was the only one that caused bladeplay and they each gave it a little different lockup. I found the perfect one and now everything's peachy keen! What an awesome design and engineering feet though! I think that we went back in technological terms when we stopped using these (Spyderco also used them in certain models if I remember right, or theirs might have been that the pivot was eccentrically ground).

The general sentiment seems to be that they're not needed anymore because knives are machined to tighter tolerances, but I say that that's kind of bullcrap, we all get those lemon knives now and then that are just crappy in their actions and lockup, and where having a stop pin like this could completely give it a perfect lockup. I have about 5 knives in my collection that could be saved with a stop pin like this. Anyway, just thought I'd share this tidbit for those who hadn't seen it before.

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And then I meandered around the house and yard with these yesterday. The automatic was my grampas.

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