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Professor

Professor

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If I had a scanner or digital camera, I'd take a pic of these beauties.

These past two weeks saw the arrivals of a large Pheasant Tail graphic Seb. (thanks to a thinning-of-the-herd by a fellow forumite), a numbered edition redwood-inlay Mnandi (#25 of 25, via another forumite), and my favorite, a small Seb.

I've already got one G2 hard at work on sheaths for the Sebs, and unfortunately, my wife has been eyeing the Mnandi. I just see the scratches inherited from floating around in the bottom of her purse now... That baby's going in the safe pronto.

I guess my point, other than to brag a little :), is to express some heartfelt gratitude to CRK for continued excellence in turning out some really nice folders.

As long as I've been collecting and using knives, I've owed it to myself to carry the best that I could afford (at least that's how I justify it to myself), but one of the real beauties of the Sebenza series in particular is the value. Some people will gripe about their cost all day long, but let those same people handle costlier custom framelocks of lesser-quality fit-and-finish and maybe they'll understand.

Being able to disassemble something with ease vs. man's inherent "need" to disassemble something, be it easy or not, is an enduring struggle to be sure. And wouldn't you know it, the Sebs are made with me in mind.

Thanks for listening to my humble ramblings, and thank you CRK for helping me lessen my bank balance, and more importantly, helping me lessen my frustration in the pursuit of the perfect pocket folder.

Professor.
 
Nice catch on those two, but I don't see the Families' richer cousins within your list? Wood inlays... seem to be not present or accounted for, so you have some work ahead of you, took me a long time to get the large wood inlay, too long! But get her I did and recommend it highly.
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Gary's right Prof. You NEED a wood inlay to lead your collection. My California buckeye burl large Sebenza rules! If I ever get enough money together my next attempt will be a gold coin Sebbie.
Gary...I may be contacting you for a small classic sheath. Man...talk about a habit; even my wife carrys an Aviator during hunting season and a small regular everyday, by choice mind you. From the time she held my wood inlayed Sebenza she's been bugging me for a small for EDC. I broke down on got her one. I wanted to get her one of the decorated versions, but at the time did not have enough to spend. I thought I used my Sebbie's a lot, but compaired to her no way. She's a biologist and has to open boxes and mail almost every day. I would say I've had to sharpen her Sebbie twice as much as mine. But believe me...it's something I enjoy!:p
 
I just didn't wanna seem like I was trying to take over the world or anything by stating I was in the market for a wood inlay! ;)

The Mnandi pacifies my desire for wood at the moment (hh,hh, he said wood). Thanks for allowing me the original and dorky "preaching to the choir" post as well. I promise I'll actually have some original info to offer in future posts here...

:)

Professor.
 
Prof.
Does this mean that the picture below your name is going to be replaced?
 
Originally posted by Professor
...Ain't she a beauty?...
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<center>Well Duh! Very nice Prof!</center>

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Professor:
Very nice knife indeed! Hope you've done your homework. The colored damascus is for show only and will discolor very easily. She's a real beauty. I've using a small black walnut inlay with the black and white Thomas Delvin Damascus ladder pattern. It's the most expensive folder I own. Not stainless but stays nice with a little extra work. Congratulations! :D :cool: :eek:
 
She's gonna spend her days in a display case, I'm afraid. She's just too pretty to put into rotation with my other CRK's.

Does the bronze coating preserve the acid etching of the damascus? If so, I'm like this knife more and more...

Professor.
 
Did I hear gold coin sebenza? I would love to get me a Canadian & a USA one...so if anyone has some leads on either please send them my way with what you want for it.
 
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