For what it's worth, I bought a Zieba S1 from truenorthknives and returned it, honestly I was very excited to get it and for the price and Michael Zieba's winning "Best New Maker award" at Blade 2016 I was hoping for something more.
Instead I received one of the worst locking knives I've ever bought, there was very noticeable wiggle in the blade when locked not side to side but up and down...not a good thing and the lock bar was around 70 percent. I called TNK and spoke to Neil Ostroff owner of TNK
and he said all the S1's he received were like that offered full refund and I accepted. I'm not the kind of knife collector that would do that but this knife was so bad it IMO was unusable. Neil said he would be getting in touch with M Zieba about this because of all of the complaints.
I had high hopes but was really disappointed in the end. The thing that bugs me most is how can a knife like that leave his shop undetected. The Sebenza on the other hand is a great knife and the new Inkosi is also a good choice.
