Interesting Sebenza P I now own...

Kaeter0328

Kaeter0328

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Snagged a sebenza p a couple days back, supposedly unused, uncarried, bought directly from Chris at Blade in the early 90's. It has no box or documents, but has the ballistic nylon belt case. It has insane early lockup, the hand filed thumb stud, and the 25th anniversary knifemaker's guild coin inlaid on the show scale. What Im confused and slightly worried about it the fact that the blade is blasted, not polished. Has anyone ever seen a blasted blade on a sebenza directly from Chris?
 

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I've never seen a blasted blade finish from CRK. I've only seen coated (fixed blades), stonewashed (normal finish), and polished (early finish, CGG, inlay, special order).
 
Nice score. I'd guess the blade was blasted after the fact at some point. The thumbstud is blasted too which is a giveaway.
 
Previous owner was the owner of Cutter's knife and tool down in west palm beach, florida, and claims he received the knife directly from Chris with blasted blade at Bladeshow, he just told me that he did swap out the washers himself (they are not from CRK), but the blade was untouched otherwise.
 
I am no expert but did research those a little prior to a purchase and believe they were offered in polished and Damascus
 
They did blasted blades in a short time circa 1994, I'm sure the blade is the original finish, Chris did many experiments during the years. The letter P of this knife is larger than other P Sebenzas, they started use the larger P stamp in 1994, I had 4 25th knifemakers' guild sebenzas, I think this knife made in 1994.
 
laizhekezhui said:
They did blasted blades in a short time circa 1994, I'm sure the blade is the original finish, Chris did many experiments during the years. The letter P of this knife is larger than other P Sebenzas, they started use the larger P stamp in 1994, I had 4 25th knifemakers' guild sebenzas, I think this knife made in 1994.
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Thank you for the info. What's confusing to me is the blasted thumb stud. That seems odd, as the stud is always fitted last. Maybe somebody messed up and fitted it before blasting? I just need to know this was done by chris/ crk and not aftermarket. I also found another of these rare blades with a blue stud here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/25th-knife-makers-guild-knife.1341686/
 
Kaeter0328 said:
Thank you for the info. What's confusing to me is the blasted thumb stud. That seems odd, as the stud is always fitted last. Maybe somebody messed up and fitted it before blasting? I just need to know this was done by chris/ crk and not aftermarket. I also found another of these rare blades with a blue stud here: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/25th-knife-makers-guild-knife.1341686/
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I think the blasted stud is original. The blue stud you listed is a small P sebenza, they used the blued stud on small P and silver stud on large P.
 
I will be placing a call and emailing pictures over to crk tomorrow. Im convinced my knife is what has been suggested, however, for the sake of potential sales and customer, I want to have official documentation on hand from them that this was done by Chris
 
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