Just felt wrong

[Paradiggum]

Okay so I've only had my small Sebenza since November so today was the first time I've taken it apart. I wanted to remove the lanyard pin. After removing the lanyard I liked the look of the blue but it rattled and drove me nuts.
I know most of you take these apart for cleaning all the time but I'm not even one of those guys that takes a knife apart to tinker. I'll take a guitar apart, a computer apart or a motorcycle apart but I've never in my life taken a knife apart. So yeah, this was an odd experience. Just felt weird pulling a pocket knife apart.

I do have to say I'm impressed with how easily everything came apart and went back together.

But yeah, after having and carrying folders from other companies all my life, it just felt wrong taking a folder apart. Nice to know we can do it for cleaning and it not void anything.

 

[WTForce]

If you put an o-ring on both ends of the lanyard pin it should stop rattling and stay put, its what I did to my umnumzaan

 

[Paradiggum]

If you put an o-ring on both ends of the lanyard pin it should stop rattling and stay put, its what I did to my umnumzaan

Thanks. I may do that in the future.

I think I spent more time looking for the little spacer collar that I dropped than it actually took to put the knife back together.

 

[ZippoThisKnifeThat]

Congrats on your inevitable success of disassembly and reassembly of a Sebenza!

I was worried the first time I took a Sebenza apart, but now I can disassemble, clean, and assemble within minutes. :thumbup:

 

[KeithAM]

Disassembling, cleaning, lubing, and then reassembling my Sebenzas adds to my appreciation of the simplicity of the design and the precision with which they were made. Very few parts, and the parts fit together precisely with close tolerances that you can feel, the way the female part of the screws fit into the handle slab, for example.

Sometimes I've seen forks who've remarked something like, "I once handled a Sebenza and wasn't impressed." I my own experience I started out impressed, but Sebenzas become more impressive after you've used them for several years and, yes, taken them apart.

 

[Paradiggum]

Sometimes I've seen forks who've remarked something like, "I once handled a Sebenza and wasn't impressed." I my own experience I started out impressed, but Sebenzas become more impressive after you've used them for several years and, yes, taken them apart.

Honestly the very first time I handled one it didn't do anything for me. I think it's mostly because I'm left handed and I spent maybe 2 minutes with someone's right handed model. Hard to get a good feel for something when it's wrong handed. It was my first trip to the Blade show so I was on visual/information overload anyway.

It took me years to finally get one and that was after reading a ton online and on the forums. Now I have 10. So..... Apparently I liked it the second time around. :thumbup:

 

[link2derek]

. . . after having and carrying folders from other companies all my life, it just felt wrong taking a folder apart.

This is one of the beauties of the Sebenza -- after a short whle, it'll become second nature t take one apart, and you'll wonder how you ever owned knives that you couldn't disassemble with such ease.