sebenza VS golf club

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As many of you know who play golf, a new driver is around 400 bucks these days. Well i needed a new one so i splurged. Now after getting it i didnt have a warm fuzzy feeling , and i dont baby it like a sebenza. as a matter of fact i dropped it on the drive way and didnt even flintch, if that was my sebenza id be crying :eek: . My point of all this is, we all spend similar sebenza type money on goods and services but few if any ever give us the feeling of getting a new sebenza. I know my sebenza is my baby, i wash it, take it apart , play with it; and put it in its sleeping spot at night. Why dont we do this with other things? What makes a sebenza a friend? Why do we all care for this special piece of steel this way? I just want to pick your brains and see what you all think as to why we all love this little piece of pocket joy. :)
 
Small hobby items tend to mean a lot more to me than standard things of greater expense such as home furnishings and cars, etc. I remember owning a fly reel for 7 years (a Bogdan for anyone who fly fishes) before I decided to use it in the 8th fishing season after buying her! I still use that for all my salmon fishing and would nearly sit in horror if I scratched it.

I suppose it's some sort of a pride of ownership factor and the individuality of the item ... why would a knife or reel mean so much ... I honestly cannot explain the grip of it :o

My motive for buying and time spent everyday searching through forums and shops with CRK is to own a large variety of the materials used with them, especially bone and wood.

Mark :)
 
Maybe even knives in general. Pocket knives (the small Seb being my edc) represent to me something primal yet soulful, much like Japanese swords were to the Samurai. We cannot carry swords (much) in this day and age, so we've scaled down!

Other things do tend to lose their novelty after a while, even to me knives other than my small Seb. I'll jump on a "must have" fixed blade to compliment my Seb, but end up selling it at some point.

I too flyfish, and my Hardy Angel 7/8 has not lost its appeal as of yet, but despite my love for it (and all things made with painstaking precision), it is not my pocket knife.

God, kids/wife, country, Sebenza, Fender, Hardy...

:)

Professor.
 
You know, I've often wondered the same thing. It's taken me years of carrying nice knives to start to use them a little harder. The rational I used was that if I break them, I can justify getting something even nicer! Of course I carry my sebbie everywhere now, even in my bathrobe, and it has it's own little place next to the bed. I try to never let it out of arm's reach. It's hard for me to use it hard, but then again working in an office the situations rarely present themselves. I love my Micarta Classic, and I'll be getting another Sebenza soon.

I treat a good knife, especially a work of art like the Sebenza, like a semi-sacred object. I have done so since I was 12. I just love knives, what can I say?
 
I think there are a couple of primal things going on: a Sebenza is a tool that can help put food on the table, and can be used to alter our immediate environment (open things, cut them in two, whittle a spoon, notch or sharpen a stick).

It is also a beautiful aesthetic object that we can take almost everywhere with us.

These desires to find and possess beautiful tools are hard wired into our brains.

A golf club may be a substitute for a hunting tool, and golf may be a substitute for hunting (there is some good anthropological research that supports this idea), but a golf club can’t deliver as a tool the way a knife can.

I imagine that a fishing reel sets off similar hard-wired responses as a knife.
 
I bought a driver for 350 a cleveland launcher and I beat the hell out of it. I understand what you mean. I own 5 sebbies and though I only carry a small blue leather I treat it like my newborn child. I constantly drop sebbie like money on my stang parts but none of them seem to mean as much as my sebbie. I throw it all to the fact which others have stated is that pocket knives are personal. there more than personal, you dont have your wife or g/f next to you as much as you sebbie if you like me. A sebenza or the one i carry at least represents an extension of myself, an extra finger if you will that happens to be sharper than the rest, and I use it and use it often but care for it as I would a finger. Most people dont get it but us sebbie owners/lovers get it. A sebbie or any other cherished knife is more than just a knife, its a b/f so we treat it like one.
 
djolney said:
A golf club may be a substitute for a hunting tool, and golf may be a substitute for hunting (there is some good anthropological research that supports this idea), but a golf club can’t deliver as a tool the way a knife can.
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Try hitting a ball 250 yards with your sebbie :p


I'm the same way. I've got some HI khukris that you couln't really hurt with a hammer, but when my son uses them, I'm like, don't hurt them! My truck cost 20K, but when the dog jumps up on the side and scratches it Im like oh well.
 
Shann said:
Try hitting a ball 250 yards with your sebbie :p
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Yeah? Well, try clipping a golf club to your pocket and carrying it around all day. ;) If you think you get strange looks from people when you take your knife out of your pocket, just think how people will stare when you whip out your five iron! :eek: :D
 
Nathan S said:
Yeah? Well, try clipping a golf club to your pocket and carrying it around all day. ;) If you think you get strange looks from people when you take your knife out of your pocket, just think how people will stare when you whip out your five iron! :eek: :D
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Or try skinning a dear with a golf club.
 
I agree about knives and their personal meaning. I have several knives from childhood that remain very precious. on another topic, when I read the title of this thread, I thought at first that someone had asked the question: what would you rather have in a fight, Senbenza or a golf club :)
 
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