It's a Sebenza thing and I don't understand

Russ,

I'm not ragging on the TNT, just throwing Tom some good hearted flack.
A TNT is on my wish list.

Paul
 
When I first saw the Sebbie, I was a little underwhelmed. Very plain looking. But I loved the lock up and like tip up carry. I really wanted a good $100.00 knife and looked for months. In and out of knife stores fondling anything near the price. Then I'd fondle the Small Sebenza. It worked it's magic on me and eventually charmed the extra money out of my pocket. I think it's the perfect EDC for business wear. Did it mention that it cuts like nothing else I own (William Henry, Puma, AlMar, Microtech, Geber, Kershaw, SAK, Leatherman, etc.). While I carry my Microtech Socom Elite when in jeans or shorts, because it's gnarly looking and makes a cool sound when I snap it open, and I like the idea of a larger blade, but when I really need to cut up big boxes or some such task, I'll grab the small Sebenza. It just flat goes through the work faster. Thave very different blade profiles (and of course BG42 vs 154CM) but the Sebbie seems to just glide through stuff that the Microtech needs to be sawed through. I think the hollow ground edge just suffers from less friction than the flat ground blade. I also like the fact that the harder you squeeze the handle while cutting, the tighter the lock gets. I also think the new clip is awesome as it doesn't tear up my dress pants, but with the extra contact point, seems much harder to dislodge than any other pocket clip knife I own.

A funny thing happened today. I was in a hifi shop (it's what I do for work, travel to different hifi stores and talk to guys about cool stuff). We were having a watch discussion and one of the guys was touting the idea that an $80.00 Fossil watch was all anyone would ever need. He couldn't understand why someone would spend $1000.00 on an automatic watch that kept worse time than a cheap Quartz watch (although he couldn't live with a $20.00 Casio as they didn't look nice enough). I said, " be careful or you'll get caught up in these" and handed him my lil Sebbie. I told him nothing about the knife and after looking at it for a minute he mentioned that he had a Gerber Amphibian when he worked in a hardware store. He said that it was obvious that the knife I had handed him must cost a lot of money, or I wouldn't have brought it up, but he couldn't see why. He also mentioned that he'd only paid $35.00 for the Gerber and it seemed perfectly functional to him. Then he proceeded to fondle, open and close my Sebbie for another 20 minutes while we talked, spinning it in his hand and looking at it in a funny way. When he asked how much it cost, I told him and he flinched, and kept fondling my knife. I had a hard time getting it back from him. I think he caught the beginnings of a bug...hehehe:) Keep in mind that all the while we were listening to an $8000.00 pair of speakers driven by a $14,000.00 amplifier in a stereo system that probably cost $40,000.00 over all and didn't even have surround sound (we're sick bastards! You thought knife collecting makes you get flak from your wife!).

Considering my varied experiences with my small plain Sebenza, and my fondness for the size of the Socom (bought after the small Sebenza) I'm thinking that what I really need is a large, unique pattern Sebenza with a Sapphire mounted in the tooling hole on the flat scale. I know I could have a TNT for the same money (and might one day) but that's what I have the hots for at the moment (along with a Randall Special fighter).

Sorry to ramble, but that's my opinion.

jmx
 
Originally posted by OwenM
I bet on nutforums.com there are peanut lovers posting crap like "Cashews...I just don't get it".
Surely nobody likes the way they taste enough to pay twice as much as they would for peanuts. Those people that buy cashews probably don't really eat them either, since they're just for show.
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LOL man you got to watch what you post! I almost lost my Dr. Pepper through my nose when I read that...too funny!!!
Thanks sir you made me laugh and I certainly needed that! ;)
G2
 
Gary,

Peanuts??? Cashews??? YUCK!! It's Macadamia nuts for me!! Where is the SNOBBY nosed Smiley :confused: LOL!!!!

I think CRK should start Sebenza passaround to cure all these Sebenza question threads once and for all!!!!!!!!!!!


Neil
 
LoL that nut thing was funny :)
I do prefer cashews myself :)

A Sebenza Passaround would be cool... i'd buy one if it really turned out to be, as Triple H would say, "that damn good".

but like that's gonna happen.
 
think CRK should start Sebenza passaround to cure all these Sebenza question threads once and for all!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thats what it would take for me to buy one. For that kind of money, I would need to handle and use one before I could justify spending the money on one.
 
It doesn't take much to post an anti-Sabenza thread and get everyone hot and bothered. That said, my Sabenza is my only real working and using knife. If it gets beat up, a few days at CRK makes it like new for a trifling amount of dough.

'nuf said.
 
50 knives ago when I first caught this disease of knives, I
heard about these Sebenzas and I got one. Nice knife and I
thought is was the best. Then......I heard about these TNTs,
so I got one. Nice knife and I thought IT was the best. Then..
I heard about these Ralph knives, so I got one of them. AND
in my feeble opinion my Apogee IS the best. And 20 Ralphs later
I am still looking for more of them.

However, knives are like women. Beauty is in the eyes of the
beholder. What appeals to me may not appeal to you. Sebenzas
are nice. TnTs are nice. Ralphs are nice. Oh, the he-- with
it, all customs are nice. I want to thank Tom, Darrel, and
Chris and all makers for making my life a lot more enjoyable.

NOW---let's all get with it and trade, trade, trade!
 
I think one of the reasons the Sebenzas are so admired is their incredibly sturdy lock. Its not that easy to find a really good liner/frame lock, i have seen so many, customs included, that just weren't confidence inspiring. With the Sebenza, the lock is so well designed and executed, so thick and sturdy, that it gives you that warm fuzzy feeling, theres just something about an incredibly strong, well made lock that does it for me, and the Sebenza definitely HAS that.

Of course the rest of the knife is equally good...
 
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