Just ordered my first Chris Reeve...

ebnash

ebnash

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Well,
I have been going nuts researching, drooling, watching videos, reading posts, and looking over the 70 pages of pictures on this forum and just pulled the trigger on a large Sebenza Insingo. I am eager to get my knife and hope that I don't regret my purchase. I would have much rather purchased this knife in person as I hate ordering items online (mostly because of the wait) but I have no dealers nearby that have non decorated Sebenza's in stock. It also doesn't help that I came across some negative reviews about later production quality concerns after I placed my orders, but I am sure I will be happy.

I will update the post when I receive my new toy!!!

Erik
 
Great choice. I am also just waiting on my first as well, and I am already looking forward to which would be my second, probably a plain EDC like what you have. I have the same concerns as you, but I am sure it will be fine.

Wear it in good health!

Justin
 
Awesome. Opting for the Small plain Sebenza. Getting rid of my newly aquired/newer used large Insingo. It's just too big. And I cannot afford to have two. Tear. You will love them guys. I never held a Chris Reeve knife until yesterday when I got this large. Amazing. You can really feel the quality. The tolerances are that good/tight. I'm a lifer!
 
Received my Large Insingo yesterday. Happy to say it is perfect size for me to EDC and that is what I purchased it for. Everything looks pretty good aesthetics wise. Only complaint I have is the edge sharpness. Unable to even cut printer paper with it straight out of the box. I know CRK will sharpen it for me for free and take care of the issue, but why would I want to have to pack it up and ship it to Idaho a day after I received it????

My 11 year old Bob Lum Spyderco Chinese Folder has a better cutting edge after using a cheap carbide forked sharpener to keep it sharp over the years. I had a small Sebenza, and Mnandi on order and have cancelled those for now. I will most likely keep my Sebenza if I can get it sharp myself. Otherwise it will be for sale, cheap.

I will most likely just stick my my Spiderco's and Benchmades from now on. I can get likewise quality, plus useability cheaper...
 
ebnash said:
using a cheap carbide forked sharpener to keep it sharp over the years.
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They have pre-made, pre-loaded strops for sale $20. And if you have to use one of those cheap forked pull-throughs, they have them now with ceramic rods, that'll keep you from ripping steel off your edge.

How about springing for a Spyderco SharpMaker? Thousands of knife nuts swear by it and Chris recommends it. :thumbup:
 
If the edge sharpness is the only issue than that should be easy enough to fix. You can send it to CRK or if you want I'll put a razor edge on it with my Wicked Edge.
I sharpen my Sebbie at 20' on both sides. A nice working edge that gets plenty sharp but is still strong. Hope you get it squared away.
 
cziv said:
They have pre-made, pre-loaded strops for sale $20. And if you have to use one of those cheap forked pull-throughs, they have them now with ceramic rods, that'll keep you from ripping steel off your edge.

How about springing for a Spyderco SharpMaker? Thousands of knife nuts swear by it and Chris recommends it. :thumbup:
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I will say the sharpmaker works well IMO....It has 30 and 40 degree settings.Even if the edge bevels are off, you can compensate by
tilting to one side or another...Not to say chris reeve knives aren't perfect :p
 
snowreaper1 said:
If the edge sharpness is the only issue than that should be easy enough to fix. You can send it to CRK or if you want I'll put a razor edge on it with my Wicked Edge.
I sharpen my Sebbie at 20' on both sides. A nice working edge that gets plenty sharp but is still strong. Hope you get it squared away.
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I appreciate the offer and I will keep that in mind. I have a Lansky kit and it has a 20 degree index so I was going to try and get a better edge with the fine stone and see what happens. Will give an update later in the week as I am currently in Oregon on the river for Salmon.
 
gine said:
I will say the sharpmaker works well IMO....It has 30 and 40 degree settings.Even if the edge bevels are off, you can compensate by
tilting to one side or another...Not to say chris reeve knives aren't perfect :p
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I wonder why CRK recommends the sharpmaker when it is not designed to maintain 20 degree edges. Scratch head.......
 
ebnash said:
I wonder why CRK recommends the sharpmaker when it is not designed to maintain 20 degree edges. Scratch head.......
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That's 20 degrees per side, matching the Sharpmaker 40 degree (inclusive) position. Not really sure why the Sharpmaker recommendation .... perhaps because it is not as aggressive as using some of the diamond sharpeners. That way, someone who might be new to maintaining an edge would not significantly alter the factory edge.
 
ebnash said:
I wonder why CRK recommends the sharpmaker when it is not designed to maintain 20 degree edges. Scratch head.......
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The SharpMaker is set at 30° and 40° - depending on which setting you want to use. The settings are marked right on the base.

I used my son-in-law's Lansky and it's effective. You should have no problems at all using it (carefully) on your new CRK.

Use a sharpie the first time to see if the fine stone works out. If you miss a little, you might have to go down a grit level until you do remove all of it (MAYBE!) on your 1st sharpening. Then your "fine" will work great for touch-ups.

It'll all be in the information you get from your sharpie markings. With any luck, you'll get it with the fine stone the first time out and have a shaving sharp knife with a perfect bevel or a slight micro-bevel.
 
Hi folks,
My small plain sebie just arrived (Atibaia - Sao Paulo - BRAZIL) and I'm very happy. The sebie is perfect, screws included!
This sebie will be just now my EDC!

I'm thankfull for your business Neil (TNK) - it was a good experience to deal with you!

Chris and Anne congratulations by yours efforts to make every day the best knife ever, since 1984.
Best regards.
 
I got home last night from a fishing trip and decided to go ahead and sharpen the new Seb with my standard Lansky system. On your suggestions, I marked the edge with a sharpie to confirm I would get full contact of the stone. I mounted the knife in the clamp and ran the fine stone along the both edges using the 20 degree index and found that I had almost 100% contact on one side, and little to none on the other. This leads me to believe that it was improperly edged from the factory. The only other conclusion was that someone had messed with the knife before I got it, but that seems unlikely as the edge surface was polished...

The contact was so poor on the one side, I would have had to work for hours removing material with the coarse stone to get it to proper angle, so I decided to run the stone at 25 degrees to check for contact. This got me full contact as the sharpie mark disappeared so I decided to work the other side of the blade to 25 degrees and go for a matching edge.

After about and hour of working through coarse, medium, and fine stones, I tested the cutting edges on some thin receipt material and got a pretty clean cut with little to no effort, so I am happy, but I did loose my polished edge I am thinking picking up a simple leather strop to see if I can get a nice clean edge and improve cutting performance a little more.
 
From what I gather that's what you do. Sharpen the larger degree side until you eventually get a matching bevel.
 
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