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somber

somber

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Does your 21 have a hump right here?

What is it from / for and why?

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somber said:
Does your 21 have a hump right here?

What is it from / for and why?

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21s both large and small have that hump. Its normal and was discussed at great length in a recent thread (maybe someone remembers where). All's good with that Sebenza.
 
Probably just part of the machining process. Doubt if it is there for any specific purpose. But yes .... it is on all Sebenzas (21s at least) large and small. Even if you can't see it, you can feel it if you rub your finger along the frame edge in the area highlighted in your photo.
 
I understand it's 'normal' -- normal in that every Sebenza 21 has it. All I want to know is, why? What purpose does it serve? If it is part of the machining process, why isn't it removed and made flush once the scales have been machined?
 
Sounds like a question only CRK can answer. The rest of us can only speculate or just assume it is what it is.
 
It's part of the handle design and it's there because it's on the handle. If it bothers you grind it off, if it doesn't then you're all good. :)
 
There are lots of aspects on the knife we could question. I'd suggest everything has an explanation, but somehow I doubt Chris will come discuss them.

I'd speculate that it is no accident though.
 
Haze said:
It's part of the handle design and it's there because it's on the handle. If it bothers you grind it off, if it doesn't then you're all good. :)
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I didn't say it bothers me. It just appears to have no rhyme or reasoning behind it. Can you think of any valid reasoning for it? Any at all?

For a knife like the Sebenza an idiosyncrasy like this is more than peculiar, its downright strange. If it is intended for a purpose it's not unreasonable to ask what it may be.
 
It's just part of the design. It's a "flat area" that runs into the shallow curve that takes you to the butt of the handle. I'm guessing it's there as an aesthetic design feture more than anything. If the curve or radius started from the lock access cutout it wouldn't look right and the handle would be a slightly different shape. :)

somber said:
I didn't say it bothers me. It just appears to have no rhyme or reasoning behind it. Can you think of any valid reasoning for it? Any at all?

For a knife like the Sebenza an idiosyncrasy like this is more than peculiar, its downright strange. If it is intended for a purpose it's not unreasonable to ask what it may be.
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We might also ask why the top of the handle is convex instead of flat, we could ask why the jimping is there, or why it does no extend all the way to the rounded portion of the spine and all the way back to where the blade drops off the spine-line, we could ask why the handle comes to a point instead of rounded front and back, and the questions go on and on. Or we can accept it as designed.

Some design features are subtle, some less so. I wouldn't get too concerned over them, either accept them or "fix" them to your liking.
 
No, unit, I can rectify the other aspects of the Sebenza. I can even think of some excuses as to why this hump exists, but solid, logical reasons? Nope!

If it were designed with a purpose, you would imagine that the purpose would be self-evident

And as an aesthetic feature? Please, it's barely perceivable and it's literally a hill in the middle of an otherwise flat surface.
 
Really? You can rectify the shape of the pommel?

I don't hate it, but I sure cannot explain the function or aesthetic of the shape.
 
somber said:
No, unit, I can rectify the other aspects of the Sebenza. I can even think of some excuses as to why this hump exists, but solid, logical reasons? Nope!

If it were designed with a purpose, you would imagine that the purpose would be self-evident

And as an aesthetic feature? Please, it's barely perceivable and it's literally a hill in the middle of an otherwise flat surface.
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I guess I agree with Somber that is is hard to easily explain away, and don't think he's totally nuts to ask the question. The "hump" is too dicreet to really be an aesthetic feature, at least in my opinion, but I can offer no more ideas than have already been put forward. Here is the thread where is was previously, and tirelessly dissected: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1234817-Start-of-Mod-on-large-Insingo

Interestingly, the Micarta inlay is cut to match the "hump", so everything is quite deliberate, or simply necessary, when it comes to this detail (maybe this shows up in my picture?). Maybe Chris just put it there to give the real CRK devotees something to discuss! :D

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unit said:
Really? You can rectify the shape of the pommel?
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Are you thinking that I meant rectify, as in fix? Like, grind the shape of the pommel in order to rectify the shape? :D

Because I most certainly did not. I intended to use rectify as in coming to terms with mentally or making sense...
 
The region that you are talking about is not flat..it only appears to be flat. It's a very large radius. Imagine two circles overlapping and the insides are trimmed away..What you are seeing is the apex of where those radii meet. Why there wasn't an additional radius between the two, I have no idea other than the lines are "crisp" everywhere else on the scales and this would look a bit funny to have a "stray" radius as it were.
 
I think you would be surprised at how different the knife would look if that "little bit of pointless nothingness" wasn't there....but what do I know ? :)
 
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