S35V Sebenza around salt water?

NjHart

NjHart

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Howdy yall, pretty simple question, but I'm curious- do any of yall regularly carry and use your sebenzas in and around salt water? I'm not talking about diving with them or anything crazy like that, but I'm sort of curious how well they hold up out there. Thanks for any info- I've been listening to too much Jimmy Buffet today in rebellion to the cold and plotting a warm weather, salt water excursion.
 
I have dived, sailed and been swimming in salt water with a CRK folder many times and as long as you give it a wash with fresh water after the dip you will be fine. I have left it too long a couple of times and the blade got a bit of a "rust rash" but that literally just wiped off. You would have to be very unkind to your knife to get pitting or to mess with the tolerances at the pivot. :):thumbup:
 
Haze said:
I have dived, sailed and been swimming in salt water with a CRK folder many times and as long as you give it a wash with fresh water after the dip you will be fine. I have left it too long a couple of times and the blade got a bit of a "rust rash" but that literally just wiped off. You would have to be very unkind to your knife to get pitting or to mess with the tolerances at the pivot. :):thumbup:
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Exactly what I was hoping to hear! I definitely would plan on cleaning it up and maintaining it afterward, but I'd hate to not take it with me out on the water fishing, sailing, or any all around adventuring I could find.
 
If you are going to get the knife wet with saltwater, I would suggest you make sure the lubrication you are using is the CRK grease. Per CRK customer service, the grease keeps the pivot area corrosion free.
 
I took my S30V Small Sebenza on a week long sea kayaking trip and it held up fine. You should rinse it with fresh water ocassionally, and if you get it wet. I think I rinsed mine once a day and after my short swims.
 
NjHart said:
Howdy yall, pretty simple question, but I'm curious- do any of yall regularly carry and use your sebenzas in and around salt water? I'm not talking about diving with them or anything crazy like that, but I'm sort of curious how well they hold up out there. Thanks for any info- I've been listening to too much Jimmy Buffet today in rebellion to the cold and plotting a warm weather, salt water excursion.
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You live in Texas and are rebelling from the cold??? In my part of the country, we get excited when it is above 25 degrees:)
 
MRaymond said:
You live in Texas and are rebelling from the cold??? In my part of the country, we get excited when it is above 25 degrees:)
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What it worse is that I'm a gear fanatic who lives in Texas, so you know I have stacks of all the best cold weather gear I can get my hands on, and yet I still hate it. Despite being an overall healthy guy, I feel like I spend most of every winter going back and forth between very sick and not quite well. I think I would literally die in your climate- I actually thought about going to law school in Michigan until I started talking to some folks about the weather and decided New Orleans was more my style. But yes- I need warmer weather as soon as possible!
 
Not trying to derail your thread here but I would tell you that you eventually get "used" to it. Then I would think about it a little bit more and tell you that I am lying about that because I don't think I will ever get used to sub zero winters. Despite living in the great upper midwest most of my life (except for 13 months I lived in Temple Texas), I still hate the cold! Worse is the non stop shoveling and snow removal. That is what I am sick of now!
 
Oh no worries- I received the reassurances I needed about the sebenza in the water. Getting used to the cold I'm sure is the same thing as getting used to the heat. Yeah I can probably handle 110 degrees better than someone who has never been around it much, but you never really get used to just how oppressive it feels. I really wouldn't mind the cold as much I don't think if I wasn't perpetually sick in winter. It may or may not be related to the cold but Pavlov would agree that it doesn't much matter. I do know however that since I'm unlikely to be getting into warm salt water in the very immediate future, I'll be making a pit stop to pickup rum on the way home today in order to better pretend I'm in Key West/the Caribbean/anywhere warmer and more pleasant. I think I may even have a coffee cup with the jolly roger on it somewhere to drink from.
 
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