Umfaan

Never any pressure - It is a generous act to post your Umfaan, and is appreciated!! :D
 
This may be a dumb question but, what is a Umfaan? I'm new to CRK and just bought a classic large Sebenza about 2 weeks ago.

Sorry I didn't see the post above me. They look just like a unique graphic to me.
 
The Umfaan is a smaller brother to the small seb. A miniture Seb if you will. They have been discontinued. A real neat little knife cute I would say. They are very hard to find. I have a plain left hand model and would have to be crazy or very hard up to part with it.:thumbup: ;) :p
 
Nukemkb said:


Interesting that no one ever asks 'bout my NIB Zig Zag Umfaan? They ARE still available...(here)


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Ok I am asking ~ what about your NIB Zig Zag Umfaan?

~ George
 
LOL! I'd forgotten I'd found that street sign in Charleston (SC) IIRC. I kinda thought it was fun to see that sign - with the VERY first thing coming to mind is my Umfaan. A picture of it is above the original posting. I still have that Zig-Zag Umfaan. Absolutely wonderful knives. And Thanks!
 
Seems like there have been a lot of them on eBay in the last few months--three just sold in the last week or so--when sometimes you could go a year or more without ever seeing one. Anyone have any opinions why?

--Umfaan owners saw the auction that started this post and figured they'd sell while the market was up?

--They need to pay Xmas bills?

--They found out CRK's secret plan to resume production of the original Umfaan and sell them for $50 so they wanted to unload theirs first??
 
Bills, price of gas, and that leads to the new and interesting prices on milk and eggs and....
I don't know - folks seem to see a wagon passing and wanta jump on it and join. I'm a bit cynical on it. I buy what I like and hardly ever sell.
 
I wish they would just bring the Umfaan back into production. Most of us would like to have one if we don't already.
 
I just received my first Umfaan this morning and I must confess that this is one of the best little knives I have ever had.

Actually, as I work in a big office in the middle of Paris, I think it is the best little EDC I could have : thinner than the Mnandi, less agressive than the Autobenchmite, as strong as a sebenza, it is easy to carry in a suit and do not frighten people which are not used to see knives in this context.

I have been lucky to find this one, and I really hope CRK will bring them back in the catalog...
 
Question: Do most of you collect Umfaan's to put in a drawer and look at them once in a while or do you use them as an EDC. I have an XL size hand and the Mnandi is actually too small for my mitt. I use a Small Seb on a daily basis and pull out the large about 25% of the time.
 
I was just looking on eBay and one person is selling a complete set while there's another Umfaan for sell by another seller on there. Pretty interesting.

-Troy
 
RNST said:
Question: Do most of you collect Umfaan's to put in a drawer and look at them once in a while or do you use them as an EDC. I have an XL size hand and the Mnandi is actually too small for my mitt. I use a Small Seb on a daily basis and pull out the large about 25% of the time.
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I don't carry my Umfaan. I bought it because I liked the Sebenzas.

I would buy and carry an Umfaan in the bottom of my left pocket (the way I carry my BM 335 2003 LE), if CRK changed the thumbstud on the Umfaan.
The current Umfaan thumbstud is too small and pointy for me.
 
RNST said:
Question: Do most of you collect Umfaan's to put in a drawer and look at them once in a while or do you use them as an EDC. I have an XL size hand and the Mnandi is actually too small for my mitt. I use a Small Seb on a daily basis and pull out the large about 25% of the time.
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The Small Seb is too large for an office use but I love its design, so my only possibility was to afford an Umfaan, for all the aforesaid reasons.

I do use it as an EDC because I wear a suit all the time and a larger knife would be useless for me and would make me look dangerous...:(
 
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