Sebenza & sand... sand & Sebenza

PiterM

PiterM

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Welcome back after my short holidays! Well, Sebenza has been my "beach EDC" for last couple of days (served as a fruit knife, whittler, etc). I was very surprised (in a VERY positive way) that Sebenza's fit is so close, that beach sand was not able to get between blade/handle/washers! All I needed was a short rinse in water in the afternoon and the knife was as smooth as it should. Another reason why Sebenza is above other folders. Try it with Axis ;)

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Hmm. NO knives of mine vacation at the beach except for my Mission Ti MPF. Yer a brave man! :)
 
pholder said:
i do try it with axis on a regular basis, same result.
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I've used my axis knives in the sand as well with no problems. The only knives where I've had "sand issues" were with lock backs and even those were easy enough to rinse out and were good as new.
 
I dont know about the beach, but I have a large Seb that has spent two years, yes years, in Iraq. Everyday in my pocket. A portion of that day was spent teaching martial arts, and rolling around in the sand and a lot of sweat, and it worked, and still works just great! Cant say enough good things about the Seb. The one I have has been in my pocket nearly every day for 8 years. I won't buy another folder -- dont trust my fingers to any other folder. Semper Fi. Bob
 
That is good to know that my Sebbie CAN go to the beach. I never would have thought to bring mine there. Thank you PiterM.
 
A bit off subject, but I carried my PT for a week on the beach in Florida. In and around the water for several hours daily and it developped some surface rust, but nothing that wasn't easily wiped off at the end of the day. I would expect no different from my Seb.
 
I snorkeled in Grand Cayman with my small Seb some years back. I took the Allen wrench along, as well as a vial of breakfree to breakdown and clean it following emmersion, and man, let me tell you, the Seb shines in saltwater environments imho.

Professor.
 
flipe8 said:
A bit off subject, but I carried my PT for a week on the beach in Florida. In and around the water for several hours daily and it developped some surface rust, but nothing that wasn't easily wiped off at the end of the day. I would expect no different from my Seb.
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WOW my PT has been to Florida :D I always wanted to go to Florida well I guess this is the next best thing lol.

aj
 
OT: I took my SNG to the beach, clipped to my pocket, and it was in a bag when I went swimming. It got rust on it. I was able to remove it with Flitz. But still, it shouldn't rust THAT quickly!
 
My usual plebian workhorse knives are a pair of Columbia Rivers - two Carson M-series folders in all-black - and while they've stood up to salt water with impressive verve, I fear to think how they'd handle sand. Between the locking liner and the autolawks mechanism, I'm deathly afraid of something jamming up.
On the other end of the stick, I balk at taking my Sebbie to a beach if I didn't have to. Just 'cause they can doesn't mean they should. Suddenly this strikes me as a glaring inadequacy; I shall have to find a knife that's up for the beach.
 
Remember that sand [ SiO2] is very abrasive .It will even wear carbide tooling and of course sand+oil is lapping compound !!! A Sebenza has the advantage of a take apart knife so you can remove all the sand , even the very finest particles.
 
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