The snowball continues....bought a few more!!!!

Paradiggum

Paradiggum

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This time I decided to go a little classier. I wanted some knives that I could wear with a suit or dress clothes. Up until now I've kind of been using the micarta sebenza for that. I finally decided to bite the bullet and get some wood inlays. While I was at it, I grabbed a Mnandi. The lighter color wood is bocote and the darker is cocobolo. The Mnandi is also cocobolo. I've got quite a few CRK knives but this is my first real foray into the fancier finished and appointed knives. I don't see as many options in left handed but I'm glad I found these.

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Great looking knives!! How do you like the Mnandi? I can't get over how much I love my CRK's but have not bought a Mnandi yet and am wondering if they are worth getting and would they win pocket time against my other CRK's?


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I can't really say yet. I've only had them in hand for about 2 hours now. It almost feels delicate compared to the Sebenza. It's really well put together as one would expect. I like it. It's just s smidge smaller than what I'm used to. I got it specifically to wear with a suit or something like that so it probably won't get the carry time the others will. It's really not a one hand opening knife either. It can be done, but I don't think it was really designed for that.
 
Great looking trio!!!!!
Good to see another lefty in the crowd. ;)
 
That's actually the main reason I first looked at CRK. At the time there weren't many high end makers making dedicated left handed knives. After I carried that first Sebenza for a little while it started to snowball. :) Now I have 30 or so CRKs and these three were just the latest. I hadn't picked any up for a few years until the last couple of months which has seen me buy 5 more. It's almost lucky for my wallet that I can't find all the variations I want in LH. :D
 
Well now, you really need to show off the other family members.
I've slowly replaced the RH CRK's with lefty's. It's been a slow process, but I'm happy with what I have. Probably need to move a couple if truth be told. But, it's very hard for me to part with any in my collection.
 
Cjwknives said:
Great looking knives!! How do you like the Mnandi? I can't get over how much I love my CRK's but have not bought a Mnandi yet and am wondering if they are worth getting and would they win pocket time against my other CRK's?
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It's worth adding to the rotation, the older ones can be opened one handed (due to the nail nick design). They carry great clipped in a shirt pocket like a pen, Chris usually carried one in that manner.
 
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