Has a Sebenza ever opened in your pocket?

3 yrs now and the answer to your question is...nope.

Never had an issue with it. Unless you were to really bend your lock bar out and/or remover your pocket clip or something drastic happening I don't see how it could with mine. Mine has a pretty strong detent as have all the ones I have handled.
 
My small classic has the pocket clip on it but I don't use it. I simply drop in my pocket. The only way that I can conceive of the knife opening in my pocket is if the thumb stud got caught on something else in my pocket or while pulling it out. It is too stiff to simply open on its own. I have only carried it for about two months but I think the possibilities are very slight.
 
I have a small 21 and it did open on me once when I was carrying it clipped into my cargo pants pocket. I did not cut myself but it was close. I suspect it hooked on my wallet or was not properly closed as it has never happened again, very strange. Love my Sebenza and dont think it was a normal incident, I dont worry about it.
 
It's happened a couple times when I carry a small Sebenza loose in my pocket. It was because the thumbstuds caught on the inside of my pocket when I pulled from my pocket.

Not a flaw, just physics. Now if I carry loose I throw it in a calfskin pouch.

Never happened when clipped to my right pocket.
 
I've carried/used my large regular on and off since 2002, and it's never happened to me.

Oddly enough, the only clip knife I've had open in my pocket was a tip-down model (a Spyderco Rookie), and I did get a small cut from that. How that happened I still don't quite understand. I would imagine it would be hard to cut myself with my Seb, seeing as to how when it's clipped to my R. front pocket, the blade is away from where my hand reaches into the pocket.
Jim
 
YES ! Somewhere on this forum I posted my problem and how I cut down the stud to solve it. I found that occasionally my key ring would hook onto the stud and open the blade as I removed the keys !! This on a large classic which sits on the bottom of the pocket blade up. The stud sticks out quite a lot and the stud is very pointed anyway. It was a simple job to cut down the stud which solved the problem.
 
Old thread on the subject (and other concerns):

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=176650


hunterfisher808 said:
I would think front pocket carry (rt.hand/rt.pocket) would put the blade facing the seam of the pocket away from your hand. I'm sure anything can happen but the probability, would be very, very low. Now probability of a cut hand with knives that have a tip up configuration would be substantially higher...all things being equal.
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Well said. -Ron
 
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I had one partially open just once...

A large regular w/clip insert attached and just riding in the bottom of my pocket...went to reach my hand in there and the blade tip just started to get me before I realized it.
 
The way the industry as a whole does such inconsistent detents that are completely ineffective at times to hold the blades closed so they cannot open by gravity this is possible literally across the board in any liner lock and many frame locks too. You cannot name a company that has not dropped the ball in this dept at one time or another and many makers do this also.

The truth is when they are done correctly people complain because they are harder to open or they don't flick as easily. Then when they get stopped by law enforcement, particularly in some states like NY or Illinois that are notorious for confiscation of pocket knives they complain.

Its not fair singling out just a Reeve knife really but I'm sure it can happen with any knife of this lock type or a liner lock. The nature of how the lock is set up, the spring retention it has, the heft of the blade and many other things can play into how well a detent can actually work to hold the blade closed as its supposed to. We are fortunate really that the law has not cracked down on this after the customs explosion that nearly took our right to carry away for perhaps good placing the very knives you carry in the same league as an automatic knife. Companies may be forced yet to come up with some other measure to keep the blades from gravity opening before its all said and done and it could be automatic locking devices that keep the tip down until it is manually released or something like the locks Kershaw uses now on knives like their Leek and others. The jury is still out on where we'll end up with this. In the mean time it would be nice if folks started demanding that the knives they carry be legal by the definition it is now but if I get 9 knives in the mail on any given day and four are liner locks, three of them will be technical gravity knives invariably by ineffective detents that do nothing but allow the blade to roll smoothly. Go figure.

STR
 
I've never had it happen with any of the 14 Sebs I've owned. I carry down in my RFP, unclipped, but I always leave the clips on the knife and I don't carry anything else in my knife pocket.

I wonder if this happens mostly to Sebs that are clipless? Since the clip rides on the lockbar, is it possible that removing the clip might take enough tension off of the lockbar to weaken the detent and allow a blade to open accidentally?
 
mete said:
YES ! Somewhere on this forum I posted my problem and how I cut down the stud to solve it. I found that occasionally my key ring would hook onto the stud and open the blade as I removed the keys !! This on a large classic which sits on the bottom of the pocket blade up. The stud sticks out quite a lot and the stud is very pointed anyway. It was a simple job to cut down the stud which solved the problem.
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I would have just put my key ring in a different pocket:D:D
 
Nope. I've had other popular brands open in the pocket, but never my enza.
 
BlazenGem said:
Has a Sebenza ever opened in your pocket?

I just read from a member on another forum that his Sebenza opened in his pocket and cut him.

Should that be an issue to be aware or be wary of?
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Yes, my brand new Large 21 opened in my pocket (cargo pocket) in March of this year and cut me when I reached for it. I have carried other knives there and not had an issue.

I sold it afterwards and have not looked at another Sebenza since. I have owned 5 Sebenza's over the last 10 years and only the last one did this, but the detent was not weaker than the others as far as I could tell. Now i look for knives with stronger closing detents... lesson learned!
 
Yup, in left hand front pocket, something (I think my wallet) caught on the thumbstud and opened it. Happened twice, cut myself once. No longer put anything in the same pocket as the Seb.
 
My Large opened once while I was withdrawing it from my pocket (it was clipped). A loose thread that was attached at both ends caught around the lip of the thumb stud. I felt something a little different and looked down so I never got cut. So, something to remember. Keep the threads trimmed and consider how you may carry it. I won't carry a thumb stud folder IWB.
 
Okay I guess the bottom line is all folders can open if the unexpected happens, as stated above the sebenza has been along a very long time and is not a grail knife if this was a unique issue.
 
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