Mnandi comparison

silenthunterstudios

silenthunterstudios

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Well, I've decided that after Christmas, I'm going to get an Mnandi. I don't have anything I want to trade evenly for one, and don't want to spend the $ for one until after I've gotten Christmas presents taken care of. I had one some years ago, got rid of it because it was too small for my uses and quickly traded what I got for it. Having become a slipjoint convert, and carrying knives that are smaller than most, I decided that instead of pursuing elusive ironwood or Native American graphic Sebenzas, an Mnandi could be more easily obtained. The one I had had the old nail nick, and was easy to open in my opinion. S30V, bloodwood or cocobolo I believe. I see that some features have changed on the Mnandi. Right now, I have a micarta classic large Seb, a 21 micarta large Insingo and a new pivot Umnumzaan. After searching the forums and doing the good old Google search, I've found there is not as much of a variety of inlays as there was. I'm not looking for any flashy woods, cocobolo is fine. I would like to see some comparison pics if possible of the new vs old Mnandis. I know that CRK makes a great knife, I have three and have had about 15 over the years :eek: (just realized, wow). Thanks for the information.
 
I know with the old style clip you can remove it and use the same screw to put back in the knife.
I am not so sure you can do that with the new style clip knives.
So if you want to go "clipless", that is something to consider.
 
Thomason said:
I know with the old style clip you can remove it and use the same screw to put back in the knife.
I am not so sure you can do that with the new style clip knives.
So if you want to go "clipless", that is something to consider.
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The new style has incorporated the screw thread into the clip. If you want to go clipless, it's as simple as getting a screw from CRK. I believe, but could be wrong, that they will ship one free of charge.
 
skin & Thomason are correct, Heather sent me the screw for a Mnandi I owned last year for when the new style clip is removed. And yes - no charge.
 
I'm not sure about the new Mnandi but if you take the clips off the old style you can get about eight of them in a CRK wallet.

 
Thomason said:
I'm not sure about the new Mnandi but if you take the clips off the old style you can get about eight of them in a CRK wallet.

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:thumbup:Great way to carry Rob...plus it obviously keeps your condoms from printing.
 
^^^ nice collection! I have two, one older style and one new. I carry and use them both but prefer the stronger detent of the newer version.
 
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