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A guy with a Buck Adrenaline made fun of me today for having such a needlessly expensive knife. I only agreed with the second part, but still felt somewhat accosted. Oddly, he was being much more mean than funny. Not sure what I did to deserve it, or what the heck he did to feel so superior with a Buck Adrenaline. I felt like taking his knife, and using my knife to shave his edge off in little wiry strips. That'd show him. Instead I came here, and did what I love to do when I'm angry. I wrote a review. (I really oughta get myself another punching bag some day...)
The Sebenza is an expensive knife. Too expensive? Don't be crazy.
Some knuts don't believe in such a thing as 'the perfect pocketknife,' but some amongst us do. If you asked those believers what they thought, most of them would tell you that the perfect pocketknife is this one. There are those who say it's not, but they funny thing about them is, they can never seem to agree amongst themselves on what is.
It's a hard thing to hold without liking it. Such a gracefully simple combination of military grade titanium, better steel than they use to make gun barrels, and twenty-odd years of progressive craftsmanship. Weighing in at well under five ounces, the deceptively straightforward design is bursting with innovation. Few other knives, if any, have had such careful consideration payed to so many aspects of its construction, and as a result few knives are so ruthlessly utilitarian. The spine of the blade is rounded, which combined with its geometry enhances tip strength and contributes to the structural integrity of the blade. The surface at the back of the blade which touches the stop pin is rounded, increasing the area of the mating surfaces and producing a tighter lockup. The mating surface of the frame-lock has been treated and hardened so it doesn't wear, preserving lock strength. The oversized phosphor-bronze washers reduce friction between blade and frame, and increase the open knife's lateral strength. In spite of its tenacity, it only has 16 parts, while most tactical folders have between 18 and 30. The weight, the grip, the dimensions, the balance, the liveliness...all of it assembled nearly flawlessly. (The grip is especially astounding - bead blasted titanium, who would've thought?)
It's worth its price. It's earned its price. You wanna talk trash about the Sebenza, be ready to talk trash about every other knife ever made.
I pointed out to this guy that every part of the knife was ingenious, meticulously devised from scratch and continuously refined over the course of two decades. The blade, the frame, the lock...
He cut me off and said no no, the lock wasn't original, that lock is everywhere...
CRK fans will know what I pointed out in turn.
He didn't believe me.
(The above is implicitly a tip of the hat. Any percieved insults or 'pot shots' are purely made in jest, and no offense is intended. I respect the views of those less reverent of CRK than some of us. I was just feeling poetic, is all.)
The Sebenza is an expensive knife. Too expensive? Don't be crazy.
Some knuts don't believe in such a thing as 'the perfect pocketknife,' but some amongst us do. If you asked those believers what they thought, most of them would tell you that the perfect pocketknife is this one. There are those who say it's not, but they funny thing about them is, they can never seem to agree amongst themselves on what is.
It's a hard thing to hold without liking it. Such a gracefully simple combination of military grade titanium, better steel than they use to make gun barrels, and twenty-odd years of progressive craftsmanship. Weighing in at well under five ounces, the deceptively straightforward design is bursting with innovation. Few other knives, if any, have had such careful consideration payed to so many aspects of its construction, and as a result few knives are so ruthlessly utilitarian. The spine of the blade is rounded, which combined with its geometry enhances tip strength and contributes to the structural integrity of the blade. The surface at the back of the blade which touches the stop pin is rounded, increasing the area of the mating surfaces and producing a tighter lockup. The mating surface of the frame-lock has been treated and hardened so it doesn't wear, preserving lock strength. The oversized phosphor-bronze washers reduce friction between blade and frame, and increase the open knife's lateral strength. In spite of its tenacity, it only has 16 parts, while most tactical folders have between 18 and 30. The weight, the grip, the dimensions, the balance, the liveliness...all of it assembled nearly flawlessly. (The grip is especially astounding - bead blasted titanium, who would've thought?)
It's worth its price. It's earned its price. You wanna talk trash about the Sebenza, be ready to talk trash about every other knife ever made.
I pointed out to this guy that every part of the knife was ingenious, meticulously devised from scratch and continuously refined over the course of two decades. The blade, the frame, the lock...
He cut me off and said no no, the lock wasn't original, that lock is everywhere...
CRK fans will know what I pointed out in turn.
He didn't believe me.
(The above is implicitly a tip of the hat. Any percieved insults or 'pot shots' are purely made in jest, and no offense is intended. I respect the views of those less reverent of CRK than some of us. I was just feeling poetic, is all.)
, but they still sell the legendary USA made Buck 110.
