Share Your FIRST Chris Reeve Knife Memories......!!!

Like a lot of people, I kept watching videos on YouTube and was interested. I found an AD in MD and went in August of 2020 to try it out. They had a sebenza and I hated it. I couldn’t open it and I didn’t understand it, but because it was a long drive, I felt compelled to leave with something - a black yojimbo. It was just a sick flicker and I loved it. But then I quickly noticed serious QC issues, so I drove back to return it, and of course figured I’d try the sebenza again. It started growing on me. I decided to try and find a large seb 21 in drop point. Luckily, I did. The first week I owned it, I was miserable. After a week or two, it all clicked, and now it’s my favorite knife. I’ll add that for Christmas 2020, my wife bought me a macassar Damascus mnandi.
 
It was sometime in 1991 and I was downtown on Broadway in New York City in Paragon, a sporting goods shop unlike any others in town because their sales people generally knew what they were talking about. I was browsing the pocket knife section upstairs on the second floor, when a sales woman approached asked me if wanted to see something special. I didn’t understand anything about the knife she pulled out, not the least the blue stud sticking out of the side of the blade closest to the pivot end nor the dull metallic slabs that held the blade with the cut out that looked like it would weaken it, so I passed. I probably heard the price which would have been outlandish at the time especially as my interest tended towards multi-blade utility knives, especially old Ulster or Remington scouts with bone handles and the craftsmenship of hand finishing. For single blade knives my preference were those you wore on a belt in a sheath, and tended to Marbles and Pumas. I’ve learned a lot since then, much of it from Bladeforums and its knowledgeable members. Thanks, guys. Oh, by the way I did eventually buy my own Sebenza, a small Regular (not a Classic) from the man himself at a blade show I attended, but not until 2003.
 
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