This thread baffles me. I didn't see anything nasty about savantuk's post. He was being perfectly honest and candid about his impressions of the Seb. No reason to get riled up about it.
Looking at a couple of savantuks's issues, I guess it may be a matter of taste and what you use a knife for. I spend a lot of tiem in the outdoors, which tends to shine a light on the Sebenza's great features:
1. Whittling wood often requires a two-handed push cut, where your left thumb rests on the spine of the knife. The Seb has a rounded spine, which is MUCH easier on the hand. A squared spine tends to leave some nasty blisters.
2. The Seb is very easy to take apart and clean with a single tiny tool. When you've been cleaning slimy northern pike all day long, this feature is invaluable.
3. I've has numerous folders come unclipped from my pocket while rock scrambling, climbing trees, and crouching in my canoe. The Seb has never come unclipped.
4. The lock is the obvious quality. You can't get much stronger than the Seb frame lock. Anything close has too darned many small springs. I just can't bring myself to trust my life to tiny springs.
5. The Seb just cuts like crazy. I've got lots of good production folders. Only a couple come close to the efficient blade geometry of the Sebenza.
6. Sebs are generally much easier to sharpen (vitally important in the field) than blades with powdered super-steels and the like.
7. I don't find the Seb to be singularly comfortable or ergonomic, but my grip is more secure on the Sebenza than most other folders in my collection.
Yes, I have folders with each of these qualities, except the rounded blade spine. The problem is that I don't have another folder with all of these qualities. It's a cumulative kind of thing, I guess.
