Having trouble making an Insingo my "beater"

Get a couple sharpie markers or crayons and mark up the blade like a kindergarten kid got a hold of it and make it look so ugly you figure you can start using it.
 
I inadvertantly cleaned my Umnumzaan with a scotchbrite dish sponge. It left minor scratches in the stonewashed finish of the blade so now it's a full blown user.

There's something deeply satisfying being able to use a fine tool regularly.
 
I carried my Small Insingo fir around a year and a half and used it daily for everything from food prep, opening packages, cutting cardboard, preparing feather sticks for fire, whittling, trimming anything that's was slow enough to catch, getting through the insane packaging that kids toys are wrapped in at Christmas, anything and everything that I need a knife for- I never babied it but I don't really abuse it.
The Insingo may have even saved my life while hunting two years ago, I fir got my fixed blade at camp and was caught in some terrible weather on unfamiliar State land. While kinda lost I decided that I needed some shelter, reached for my blade and remembered that I had set it on my bag at camp and walked off, thank God my trusty Insingo was with me, as always!
I used it to cut pine boughs that were larger than an inch and a half by bending them and ouch cutting through them, dug in the snow under a different pine and used the cut boughs to make a wind break/wall and make thicker my make shift roof. The shelter kept me out of the weather until it all blew over and I found my bearings to get back to camp.

May not have went so well without the Small Insingo by my side.
It looks very well used but there are no gouges on the blade, for a small fee it'd look brand new.
I have YouTube vids up of it showing how it looks if your interested, my channel name is the same as my user name here. I'll never sell this blade and once you start using yours I think that you'll feel the same way, it is an amazing knife that deserves to be used.
 
Thats a great story abominable. 1 inch thick? Wow. Did you hammer it through with another branch? And even more impressive for a small. I like the feel of the large better, but the small is just a more manageable size.
 
I carry my Large Plain Insingo the most, I carry my Umnumzaan second, and third place is tied between a Large Regular, Large Micarta 21 and Large Micarta Insingo. I have a plain 21 with Ladder Damascus and a Large 21 micarta with Raindrop that I do try to slip in once in a while but not at work. A bit too harsh for the Damascus. I've never been able to carry any of my Uniques.
I went from not even concieving how one could spend $400+ on a knife to nearly exclusively owning and using them. Yes, they are just that damn good.
 
I feel the same way... Received my first CR knife last week and the new Insingo is so pretty I'm not sure I want to scratch it up, but I bought it for EDC and that's it's role in life. I spent part of today setting up my Lansky, checking the angles and re-profiling the blade to 18 degrees on each side, little stropping and its hair shaving / phonebook paper slicing sharp. Now that I know I can recondition the blade to this level, I'm ready for whatever life throws at it! Thank You CRK, what a beautiful tool.
 
While I won't call my lg Insingo a beater, it's a user.
I found it easier to use it since I got this unique graphic lg Sebenza.
It's like the Insingo patronizes it's kinsman.
red mag
 
arskrg said:
............ or pics of a well used beater Insingo?.......
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Here you go.

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arskrg said:
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't knocking collectors. I just feel like I want to use them, but sometimes don't because of the $$$$$$...
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I'll tell you what I do that makes it easier for me to carry them. If I buy a 'used' knife and can't see scratches on it when I get it, I smack it on something to give it a scratch. Just a tiny scratch in a descreet location, but I know it's there. Then I never have to worry about getting the first scratch on it, and in the pocket it goes.
 
Lone_Wolfe said:
I'll tell you what I do that makes it easier for me to carry them. If I buy a 'used' knife and can't see scratches on it when I get it, I smack it on something to give it a scratch. Just a tiny scratch in a descreet location, but I know it's there. Then I never have to worry about getting the first scratch on it, and in the pocket it goes.
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Don't quite understand the logic here, but I do understand what the gentleman was trying to say; the first door dent on a new truck, a scratch on the stock of your newly restocked Winchester Model 70, and your first scrape on the handle of a new CRK will happen -- you use a tool it will look like it has been used. Holster wear on a handgun is another example: use and train with the handgun, and it will show holster wear on high points of the frame...

But there is a real difference between 'use' and 'abuse'. I, like most of y'all, use the tools I buy. If the item is bought to be collected (such as a Colt WWII 1911A1 in excellent condition), then using it or not becomes a mute point. A WWII Colt M1911A1 is a collectable if it's in very good to excellent condition. Sure you can use it, but a newer Colt 1911 would be a better choice. Same could be said of a CRK -- new CRK, unless a special piece, is not by any means a collectible knife. For the price, anyone can buy one. Now if it ha!s mammoth inlays and a nice Damascus blade anlongwith some intricate engraving, that's a different story altogether. I and others might consider that CRK a collectors piece, and we'd be right for the most part to put it away and admire it from time to time by ourselves or with other knife collectors...

Take that new knife of yours and use it as intended -- a cutting tool of the highest order. It will receive scratches from daily use. It will not look like a new knife in a year or so. But it will continue to do its job as long as you do yours and keep the edge sharp and not use it as a chisel, wedge, or screwdriver. I look upon my older CRK's as having character rather than being an abused tool. And if I ever use the blade up (me thinks a tough thing to do) while using it for its designed purpose, well guess what? I'll just go buy another Sebenza or whichever CRK it happened to be....

Enjoy your CRK. Put a few honest scratches on the frame. Keep it sharp while it works for you. And in five (5) years, send it back to CRK and have them do an overhaul on the knife. We do it all the time with our handguns, shotguns, and rifles. It's just part of the responsibility an owner of top shelf equipment does as preventive maintenance...

My novel ends here; I sure said alot when a few words of 'common sense' should have been sufficient. Maybe a photo thread showing 'used but not abused' CRK's might be something a member would consider worthwhile for folks with questions and feelings such as yours, which I must say is fairly common among users of high end sportman's tools and equipment....cya
 
ColtM1911A1 said:
Don't quite understand the logic here, but I do understand what the gentleman was trying to say; the first door dent on a new truck, a scratch on the stock of your newly restocked Winchester Model 70, and your first scrape on the handle of a new CRK will happen ...................
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From your post I'd say you get my logic just fine, get the first scratch out of the way so you don't have to worry about when it's going to happen.

Oh, and I'm not a gentleman. ;)
 
Use it! I am one to speak lol, I just picked up a Large Regular in new condition and havent used it yet because it is so rare and hard to find. Seriously though, I use all my other Sebs.. a Large 21 and Micarta. I think they look best with "character marks", especially on the plain titanium . Besides the Regular, the only other CRKs I have hard time using is the polished blades and wood inlays.
 
benlg said:
Use it! I am one to speak lol, I just picked up a Large Regular in new condition and havent used it yet because it is so rare and hard to find. Seriously though, I use all my other Sebs.. a Large 21 and Micarta. I think they look best with "character marks", especially the plain titanium variant. Besides the Regular, the only other CRKs I have hard time using is the polished blades and wood inlays.
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I have to admit, I like the CGG's covered in character marks even better. These are my 2 favorites for carry.

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Lone_Wolfe said:
From your post I'd say you get my logic just fine, get the first scratch out of the way so you don't have to worry about when it's going to happen.

Oh, and I'm not a gentleman. ;)
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Lone_Wolfe:

I like to think that most men who carry CRK's are 'gentlemen'.....;)
 
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