sebenza and lock

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SCARFACE

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i just got my sebenza at blade, its a regular large model i love it, i had chris sign my box and got pictures taken with him it was awsome, my question is people are talking about stcky locks is it not supposed to be a little sticky when disengaging the lock, i have no problem with it but is it not supposed to be like that and will it go away with some wear if it is brand new??

thanks,
anthony
 
First of all congrats on your new Sebbie and boy do I envy you getting to meet Chris. As to your question, any Sebbie is going to require some "break-in" time as do many other knives. You can either let the "break-in" period happen naturally or you can speed it up by repeatedly opening and closing the Sebbie while you're engaged in some fairly mundane activity such as watching TV or reading. Just don't flick it. Enjoy.
 
You can smooth out the closing on liner locks and framelocks by rubbing a little pencil lead on the tang and lock face. This should lubricate it just enough to keep the lock from sticking.
 
After reading this forum for a little while, I've noticed several remarks admonishing Sebbie owners not to Flick their knives. Why is this such a dangerous thing to do? While I wouldn't expect any folder to withstand 10000 hard flicks without wearing a little, I wouldn't expect a little flicking now and then to cause a problem. Is the Sebbie really so fraggile? Makes me a little nervous, considering I've got a Large Regular on the way...
 
flicking is nice to do with an 80.00 knife but would you really want to flick a sebenza. It would kinda be like reving a ferrari up to 7000 rpm to do a huge burnout. Sebenzas are built like a tank and built to very tight specs, so flicking to me seems a little abusive.
 
There is flicking and there is FLICKING. Chris Reeve doesn't like any of it, but Sebenzas are tough enough to take a bit of hard use. There's no harm in a fast opening, with the blade snapping out and locking, but a hard snap with a wrist flick, slamming the tang into position is unnecessarily abusive, and you can get into a bad habit and forget how often you do this sort of thing.

I've got all sorts of knives with all sorts of locks, and I think the Sebenza is actually one of the better knives to survive this sort of abuse. But it's only metal. Why try to damage it?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
There is flicking and there is FLICKING. Chris Reeve doesn't like any of it, but Sebenzas are tough enough to take a bit of hard use. There's no harm in a fast opening, with the blade snapping out and locking, but a hard snap with a wrist flick, slamming the tang into position is unnecessarily abusive, and you can get into a bad habit and forget how often you do this sort of thing.

I've got all sorts of knives with all sorts of locks, and I think the Sebenza is actually one of the better knives to survive this sort of abuse. But it's only metal. Why try to damage it?
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Well Said!
 
Thanks for the explanation, Esav.
Believe me, I have no intention, nor is it my practice to ABUSE a knife.
It just seemed like the flicking comments were a little overly conservative.
Looking forward to holding my first Sebbie, soon!

MPotter
 
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