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Preface: my hope is for honest feedback and advice.
I finally gave in to the irresistible, nagging urge to try a Sebenza. I sold a few knives and purchased a new plain large single thumb lug from a dealer for myself. Despite infinite internet assurances about perfection, I asked the dealer to check for a centered blade. He scoffed at me and assured me that such requests were unfounded with this knife. Two days later, I received my gift to myself:
I waited a couple of days before taking it down and re-assembling with hopes that this would perfect the blade centering. It did not but I just decided to grimace and bear it. It doesn't affect use -but, lets be honest, knives like this are about more than utility.
It is a great feeling knife and the sounds and feel of it are lovely. It has been in my pocket since receipt, cutting whatever needed to be cut and giving me a lot of pleasure. Just this morning, however, I was sitting and talking to my girlfriend and opened the knife to cut a package and the pivot screw fell off the knife and onto the carpet. She said, "Holy siht, is that your four hundred dollar knife?!?"
It has been 9 days since I tightened the pivot down. I did not wrench it really hard, just gave it a firm quarter turn after reaching stop tension.
My question is: has anybody else ever had their pivot screw work loose?
I know these knives are supposed to be perfection but mine is not. Should I treasure it more for being such a rare creature in the wild, an imperfect Sebenza? Do I have a real life jackalope on my hands? If this were your experience, would you send the knife away for a month after less than two weeks of ownership? I kind of want double thumb lugs, so maybe that would 10% justify sending the knife away so soon? Kind of getting that buzzkill sensation?
I finally gave in to the irresistible, nagging urge to try a Sebenza. I sold a few knives and purchased a new plain large single thumb lug from a dealer for myself. Despite infinite internet assurances about perfection, I asked the dealer to check for a centered blade. He scoffed at me and assured me that such requests were unfounded with this knife. Two days later, I received my gift to myself:
I waited a couple of days before taking it down and re-assembling with hopes that this would perfect the blade centering. It did not but I just decided to grimace and bear it. It doesn't affect use -but, lets be honest, knives like this are about more than utility.
It is a great feeling knife and the sounds and feel of it are lovely. It has been in my pocket since receipt, cutting whatever needed to be cut and giving me a lot of pleasure. Just this morning, however, I was sitting and talking to my girlfriend and opened the knife to cut a package and the pivot screw fell off the knife and onto the carpet. She said, "Holy siht, is that your four hundred dollar knife?!?"
It has been 9 days since I tightened the pivot down. I did not wrench it really hard, just gave it a firm quarter turn after reaching stop tension.
My question is: has anybody else ever had their pivot screw work loose?
I know these knives are supposed to be perfection but mine is not. Should I treasure it more for being such a rare creature in the wild, an imperfect Sebenza? Do I have a real life jackalope on my hands? If this were your experience, would you send the knife away for a month after less than two weeks of ownership? I kind of want double thumb lugs, so maybe that would 10% justify sending the knife away so soon? Kind of getting that buzzkill sensation?
