How can you tell what steel a sebenza is made of?

[colubrid]

I have one without the Born on paper. Since there are no marks on the seb saying which material the blade is, i want to know which steel was used? I know it was bought in early 2006 from New graham and it is a Large "regular".

 

[Matador]

I was told to remove the blade and near the pivot hole there should be the letter "S" for S30V. If there is no marking then it is another of the earlier CRK blade steels.

Matador-

 

[Esav Benyamin]

How about I move this from the General Knife Discussion to the CRK forum?

 

[crackerjax]

my wifes nica tanto has the s, arnt they bg 42?

 

[MORIMOTOM]

if it was made in 2006 it is almost certainly s30v.

 

[So-Lo]

my wifes nica tanto has the s, arnt they bg 42?

There were two runs of them

Second run was s30, and the first was bg42. Sweet knife BTW :thumbup:

 

[crackerjax]

aww poo I guess ill have to dig the birthday card out of the stack ...it says 1 of 200, wife loves the knife takes it everywhere. I hope it is bg 42 its never been sharpened so I cant tell

 

[crackerjax]

sigh ... its s30v whats this new steel they are coming out with....? should be soon after blade....ill have to get a blade fitted to my ummnumzaan...

 

[Esav Benyamin]

The older BG-42 run of tanto Sebenzas was marked 1 of 400.

 

[jiggyfly16]

didn't the sebenza switched to s30v in mid to late of '01?

 

[Daniel]

When they switched to S30V, they still had quantities of BG42 that was available.

 

[crackerjax]

how i long for bg-42...... so whos got the scoop on this new steel..... seems to be real secret i hear 3 ummnums were made with it and sold.....any range reports?

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I've got a large regular that is marked on both sides of the inner handle. I didn't take it apart, but it appears to be BG42, I can't remember the exact date, I am pretty sure B 00. I believe the steels were ATS34, BG2 and currently S30V. Wasn't there a sprint run of A2?