I love it when that happens!

Smooth Bone

Smooth Bone

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Cruising through the gun show today with my small classic clipped inside my right front pants pocket, I walk by this guy sitting at a table with a homemade motorized belt making a little money sharpening knives. He's got a bunch of old Case, Buck, and other assorted knives lying around his machine.

"Can I sharpen yer knife, buddy?"

"Naw, I keep it pretty sharp, but thanks," I replied.

"I'll put up any of the knives I've sharpened against yers!" he came back. "Let me take a look."

"OK, but don't even think about touching it with that belt you've got there," I said as I handed him the Sebe.

He took the knife, opened it and took several seconds examining the edge with his eyes, then his thumb. He pursed his lips a little and looked over the rest of the knife. Handing it back to me he said, "Neighbor, there's only one thing wrong with that knife!"

Clipping the knife back in my pocket, I was amused. "Yeah, what's that?"

"It's not mine!" he said smiling, "Nice knife!"

I grinned back and walked on.

Frank
:D
 
I wish I could actually show somebody my Sebenza and they would apprecitate it. Nobody understands except all you guys and gals.
 
HAH, ya gotta love that!

Had one similar but with a different knife, my Warlock in CPM-3V, quite a sharp thin blade on that wharncliff.

Had it at the Ashokan Seminar last year about this time and Phil Baldwin was there, the theme of the weekend was Swords, and Phil wanted to look at the knife I had. I told him to becareful that it was very sharp, he had a test he used to see how sharp a blade was...
It consisted of lightly setting the edge across the back of his wrist just forward of the joint, and dragging it lightly across the hairs to see if it grabbed the hairs and cut them, I couldn't stop him in time, effortlessly through the hairs and a shallow cut was the result. He said, `Yep that's a sharp one!' handed the knife back and kept on talking to others around us and periodically sucked at the 1 long cut across his wrist as it dripped blood down his hand. I guess that makes the knife a bit more valuable?

The Sebenza has a GREAT edge as well, but that Warlock, much like it's name, takes a rather thin cutting edge geometry that just goes IN fast...
;)
G2
 
:D

I remember looking for more things to cut when I first got my small Sebenza out fresh out of the Fedex box - just to experience the bliss of cutting with a truly premium cutting edge.

Andrew Limsk
 
To my wife, my Sebenza is "just a knife".
Also, a Porsche is "just a car" to her!
The sad thing is, that there are millions of people who feel like that. Why can't people recognize and appreciate quality when they see it?
Go figure.
Lenny
 
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