Sebenza - What am I missing?

[Cliff Stamp]

Can the knife be both a good working tool and aesthetically pleasing?

I stated it was for me personally, so yeah. But one isn't relevant to the other.

[relevant to juding the merits of the knife]

But needing to cut bone, metal and hard plastics with a ~3" pocket knife is?

Depends how the knife is promoted. None of those are overly demanding though. With the small 1095 paring knife, I cut right through the 1/8" plastic in the bottom of a coke bottle. With the Deerhunters, which are fixed blades with very thin edges made from thin blade stock, I cut very hard materials, so a folder with thicker steel and a heavier edge should not have a problem obviously.

Not every knife needs to be able to cut Through bone or split logs to be a good knife.

No, I have lots that can't do this overly efficiently, fixed blades even, not just folders. However when you consider other aspects of the design, handle strength and lock promotion, it isn't consistent to restrict the knife to really light use, plus it isn't necessary, the initial edge angle is heavier than I run on choppers.

I don't see a lot of people complaining about the Sebenza though because it doesn't split logs well or doesn't efficiently hack through frozen elk bone, mainly it is from the point of view of cutting ability, edge retention, ergonomics/security, lock strength/security, and scope of work it can be exceeded in less expensive knives.

-Cliff

 

[Bastid]

I wish I could take my slipjoints apart and put them back together.
It would make cleaning them easier and more complete.

 

[Gossman Knives]

man, cliff stamp ruins every thread he posts in.

i dont run into YOU but in every damn thread.


Jesus, stop it already blowhard!

LMFAO
Scott

 

[Ryan8]

SEBENZA SUX!!!! SEBENZA RULEZ!!!!

 

[Roefisher]

On the idea of taking a knife apart.

One of my drivers at work dropped a knife into a tanker full of concentrate timber preservative. This stuff is like gummy glue. When we blew out the container, it was sitting at the filter as I hoped.

Let me reassure you if that knife could not have been disassembled it was destroyed. Even the washers had to be individually scrubbed. That was a Benchmade.

But in this example, extreme though it is, stripping was not a leisure activity. It was that or a scrapped knife.

Now, where's my popcorn

Mark

 

[4 Ranges]

Those are good points about accidentally dropping the knife, then needing to clean it.

It's one thing to need a knife cleaned because the design leads to gunk retention.

It's another thing to drop you sebbie in mud, then having the option to clean it.

Again Cliff, 2 DIFFERENT THINGS! LOL!! It's like a theme with you.

 

[TedV]

man, cliff stamp ruins every thread he posts in.

i dont run into YOU but in every damn thread.


Jesus, stop it already blowhard!

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