sebenza question

Technique, experience and breaking it in all help. It's not a tactical knife in the sense that it isn't about the fastest opening. I find I can open them relatively fast. Not as fast as other brands, but the difference is what, a couple of milliseconds?
 
I had a similar problem with a Seb once. I would recommend taking it completely apart and put it together again. I think that you may have a pinched bushing. It is possible for the pivot to snag the edge of a bushing that is not perfectly centered. Everything seems ok because the screw appears to be all the way in but in reality (if this is your problem) one of the bushings is pinched between the ti slab and the rim of the female half of the pivot screw and the screw is not all the way in (due to the thickness of the bushing). You could just take the male screw out and look in the pivot center to be certian you see equal parts of the bronze bushing all around. My guess is that it is off center slightly and because of this it freezes and mildly torques the one bushing causing your knife to feel stiff.

When the Seb is properly assembled you should be able to tighten the pivot all the way and it will operate smoothly.
 
Questioning the perfection of the Sebenza? Do I believe my lying eyes? The users need to simply accept how it's put together and learn their expectations are out of place, not the Sebenza.

Pinched bushing? Something got out of CRK that was defective? It's impossible. And should have been sent back immediately.

Legions of Sebenzanistas have advised the above for almost a decade, bluntly, even forcefully. Never question the design, assembly, and use of a Sebenza. It is the Holy Grail of all knives, rightly so, and only the most non-perceptive and completely uneducated could come to any other conclusion.

If anything, it represents the bare minimum as a standard, and is an expression of the knifemaker's craft as all others should make them. They are tolerated only because it makes the comparison so much more obvious.
 
My problem was caused by me. Yes the knife is made to be taken apart but there is a learning curve involved at first. The Sebenza is machined with very tight tolerances. As I reassembled it the first time is when I got the pinched bushing problem. I doubt that it would have come from the factory with the issue I had. Now that I reread the thread it sounds like it is just stiff from being new.
 
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