What happened to CRK???

For the sake of discussion and maybe debating, very rarely can one company stay on the top forever. As much as I hope CRK continues to improve, I also look forward to other production knife makers to catch up with and even surpass CRK in terms of the quality of their products.
 
jill jackson said:
What about when Cold Steel tested two brand new Sebenzas and both failed to hold 45 pounds? I still have trouble believing they failed at that weight. They certainly seem a lot stronger than that when I use mine.
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That "test" was rigged. CS drilled through the Sebenza and torqued a bolt through the base of the lockbar; causing it to slip. Only fail there was AD/CS.
 
I have owned a few CRK Sebenzas and Mnandis. One Sebenza had an uneven blade grind, but it just took a little extra time on the sharpening stones to make the blade a screamer, then it was fine. One Mnandi had a problem with the heat treat on the lockbar face, had the stickiest of the ickiest locks you've ever seen. I called CRK, they said send it in, the fixed it, and they sent it back to me without charging return shipping, like they claim they will all over their warranty copy. That's a-okay customer service in my book.

Having reground a few of my knife blades, I can attest that it ain't no easy chore, probably even after experience. The rate at which metal gets removed is staggering. Unless the blades are machine ground, then I don't think expecting every blade to be perceivably symmetrical is reasonable. I don't even think that expecting perfection about the mechanism is reasonable.

Having said that, even the CRKs with problems were nicer than pretty much every other production knife I've owned, save for some traditional slipjoints.
 
abcdef said:
I must be losing my mind. I'm on BF daily, and this is the first I've heard of this. Full disclosure, I have never looked at the CRK mfgr's forum. Maybe I would have picked up on this if I had. It makes me sad to hear about Chris...
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Me too and I also don't go to the CRK forum. Not good news from my point of view. I also tend not to read the CRK threads, so this "news" totally slipped past me for an entire year.
 
Left handed large insingo here. I can't visually see any flaw with the knife anywhere, simply none.

It was stiff for a few weeks but now free falls shut and flicks if wanted. I give it the highest quality of any of my 30+ knives. Also, the build date has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the blades manufacture date. One of my handle slabs was made early '15 and the other mid '16. I don't know when the blade was ground. I just know the date on the card has little to do with blade grind. IF, and I say again IF, this is a problem it's going to be hard to pin down as the blades are not dated.

And I decided to see if my 21 was aerospace ground. Yes, the margin of error for me trying not to wiggle things around was more than any actual difference in metal removal. I am just one point of data, but count me in as an ARK knife owner who is very satisfied!
 
newdebate said:
That "test" was rigged. CS drilled through the Sebenza and torqued a bolt through the base of the lockbar; causing it to slip. Only fail there was AD/CS.
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Source? I saw the test video and didn't see any sign they'd rigged it. Do you have something that backs up your claims that you could direct me to?
 
evilgreg said:
Source? I saw the test video and didn't see any sign they'd rigged it. Do you have something that backs up your claims that you could direct me to?
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The "test" involved mounting the Senenza to a swing arm.

Mounting the Sebenza to the swing arm involved DRILLING A HOLE through the base of the knife near the fixed end of the lockbar.

AD then put a bolt through the new hole and tightened it with a wrench.

This tampering pinched the fixed end of the lockbar and let the lockup slip.

Typical goofy CS propaganda.
 
Hmm none of my 7 current CRK's have any issues whatsoever. Some are "pre chris' and some are "post Chris". I've probably owned more CRK than any brand except maybe ZT. They continue to set the standard in production knives.
 
newdebate said:
The "test" involved mounting the Senenza to a swing arm.

Mounting the Sebenza to the swing arm involved DRILLING A HOLE through the base of the knife near the fixed end of the lockbar.

AD then put a bolt through the new hole and tightened it with a wrench.

This tampering pinched the fixed end of the lockbar and let the lockup slip.

Typical goofy CS propaganda.
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So you don't have any evidence? It's just your wild assertion that isn't supported by anything other than your imagination?
 
I own a Ti-Lock and Large Sebenza. No issues whatsoever.
Ti-Lock is a great knife.
 
That (drilling a hole at the end of the ti handke) may indeed compromise the integrity of the frame lock. Regardless, I am not surprised that the Sebenza failed the spine whack test. But it is not a flaw of frame lock. The test itself is meaningless. I mean, when and who would need to put that kind of impactful force on the spine of a folding knife?
 
sharp_edge said:
That (drilling a hole at the end of the ti handke) may indeed compromise the integrity of the frame lock. Regardless, I am not surprised that the Sebenza failed the spine whack test. But it is not a flaw of frame lock. The test itself is meaningless. I mean, when and who would need to put that kind of impactful force on the spine of a folding knife?
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When I'm taking down perps at the mall, I'll typically open my folding knives and whack said perps on the temple with the spine, thus rendering them unconscious.
 
SpySmasher said:
When I'm taking down perps at the mall, I'll typically open my folding knives and whack said perps on the temple with the spine, thus rendering them unconscious.
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Whack perps, smash spies, got it.
;):D
 
I just wish CRK would go back to making Regulars again WITH solid washers.

I like simple things. That is why I liked Sebenzas. I never liked high tech futurist looking knives with plastic parts mixed in.. Either I want a Glock or a 1911. But if I want a 1911 it would be without the plastic parts and crazy mods with holes in it .. Just a basic WW 2 1911 please and give me back my Regular Sebenzas without the crazy perforated washers.
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