Who here is kinda useless without their Sebenza?

[kidcongo]

So after many years of daily carrying a CRK, or a Spyderco on occasion, I find I have become useless at the most basic tasks, without my Sebenza, or knife-du-jour.

When I forget to pack my knife, or cannot carry it due to certain work restrictions, I find myself bewildered by my environment.

I look at a package or envelope: “how do I open this?”

I look at a cardboard box: “how do I flatten this?”

I look at an apple: : “how do I eat this?”

You could probably lock me out of a room with a piece of tape, and I’d starve to death before I figured out how to get into the package of cheese.

If I have left my knife in my truck I will walk back to retrieve it to complete a task I could do with the ballpoint pen in my pocket or my fingers.

Am I alone in my insanity?

 

[hhmoore]

I'm sort of useless, in general, the knife I carry has nothing to do with that. What you describe, though, sounds like you could benefit from years of expensive therapy.

 

[kidcongo]

I'm sort of useless, in general, the knife I carry had nothing to do with that. What you describe, though, sounds like you could benefit from years of expensive therapy.

Let me know if you know a guy. I need deep work on my brain. I was staring at an orange the other day, with no knife in sight, and was befuddled on how I was going to eat the thing. Then I remembered “normal” people peel oranges.

I need to find a group of fellas for support maybe.

 

[Murphjd25]

I am, I carried one of my other knives yesterday to work and when I got to work and needed to use a knife, I was very depressed I left the Sebenza at home.

 

[Dcdavis]

I went to the grocery this morning getting meat to grill tonite, got to the door and realized I left my knife on the console of my truck. Walked back to get it, I mean just in case I need a knife in the grocery store.

I usually eat sausage biscuits every morning at home before work. If I don’t cook sausage I eat the little two pack frozen ones. I use a crk to open them every time instead of just pulling it apart. Chip bags, pop tarts, bag of skittles, etc. Things that don’t require a knife but I use one anyway.

Went to the store the other nite with my son and wife. We stayed in the truck, she came back with two little cheapo matchbox cars for him. I gave him one and I kept the other and opened it with my knife. When I turned around to give him the one I had he had already opened his and playing with it. He’ll be four this month.

Certain boxes that things come in aren’t taped. They’re the ones that the lid folds inside a flap on the side of the box. Can trims and certain light fixtures come to mind in boxes like that. Instead of just taking the tab out of the slot and open the top I’ll take a cut the tab off, then use the knife to turn the top up.

I’ve definitely gone out of my way to get a knife and take more time doing that than using what I had with me.

So no, you’re not alone

 

[bart1]

I use mine for anything I can get away with... anything.... Blueberry muffin/butter, cereal box, guitar boxes at work, mail, stripping wire( smaller than yours DC) ... clean fingernails, you name it...

 

[Dcdavis]

Prime example right now. Any need for a knife? None at all. When anyone at the house puts the 6pack, or however many count, drinks in the fridge I’ll go thru and cut them all loose like that and just leave them instead of pulling them out. Drives everyone crazy because the plastic ring stays on the bottle

 

[kidcongo]

I went to the grocery this morning getting meat to grill tonite, got to the door and realized I left my knife on the console of my truck. Walked back to get it, I mean just in case I need a knife in the grocery store.

I usually eat sausage biscuits every morning at home before work. If I don’t cook sausage I eat the little two pack frozen ones. I use a crk to open them every time instead of just pulling it apart. Chip bags, pop tarts, bag of skittles, etc. Things that don’t require a knife but I use one anyway.

Went to the store the other nite with my son and wife. We stayed in the truck, she came back with two little cheapo matchbox cars for him. I gave him one and I kept the other and opened it with my knife. When I turned around to give him the one I had he had already opened his and playing with it. He’ll be four this month.

Certain boxes that things come in aren’t taped. They’re the ones that the lid folds inside a flap on the side of the box. Can trims and certain light fixtures come to mind in boxes like that. Instead of just taking the tab out of the slot and open the top I’ll take a cut the tab off, then use the knife to turn the top up.

I’ve definitely gone out of my way to get a knife and take more time doing that than using what I had with me.

So no, you’re not alone

I’ll match you on all these point and add that I eat an omelette most mornings that involves cutting up onions, cheese, topping some eggs, and sometimes mushrooms or other things.

I so enjoy using my CRK knife each morning as part of this ritual, that if I don’t have it on my person, I’ll go retrieve it for the chore, rather than use the perfectly good kitchen knives right in front of me.

Glad I’m not the only sufferer. I feel now, that my pocket knife (typically a Sebenza 21), is almost a permanent extension of my hand. I use it for absolutely everything.

 

[kidcongo]

View attachment 1354162 View attachment 1354163 Prime example right now. Any need for a knife? None at all. When anyone at the house puts the 6pack, or however many count, drinks in the fridge I’ll go thru and cut them all loose like that and just leave them instead of pulling them out. Drives everyone crazy because the plastic ring stays on the bottle

Really love the dark colour your Micarta has taken on. I work a lot with Micarta, in it’s intended use as an electrical insulator, at my job, so the dark maroon colour is very familiar to me.

Cant wait to get a large 31 with the full natural micarta slabs, to see it age like this.

 

[Dcdavis]

Really love the dark colour your Micarta has taken on. I work a lot with Micarta, in it’s intended use as an electrical insulator, at my job, so the dark maroon colour is very familiar to me.

Cant wait to get a large 31 with the full natural micarta slabs, to see it age like this.

Thank ya. That’s the red micarta. I’ve got a couple naturals as well. At times one of my Inkosi naturals is hard to tell the difference between it and the red in passing.

I’ve got a 31 Pj/raindrop on order and have no intention of cancelling my order. After that I’ll look for a natural insingo 31. That’s my intentions anyhow.

Sliced up jalapeños and mushrooms earlier before grilling with the Inkosi. Have a perfectly good veggie chopper on the counter. Didn’t see the need to use it....

 

[loon#r]

Haven’t reached that point yet, but I feel off without a CRK on me. The real troubling times are when I can’t decide which two CRKs I need to carry.

 

[Evany]

That's funny just yesterday when my wife and I went out to our vegetable garden together to pick a lot of spinach, she grabbed a scissors and I used my 21. I definitely feel incomplete without a knife on me. At work in my two jobs I always have a knife, these days usually a large or small CRK. I probably use my knife 25 times a day, and often it's a task that could have been done with another tool or no tool. It's just more satisfying to use a knife.

 

[jonnieb27]

I feel naked without one...

 

[Dcdavis]

I mean how else would you open these if you didn’t have a knife?

 

[Ajack60]

I now do a pocket check of everything that I should have. A CRK is on the check list. I have been down the road, turned around to get my CRK even though I've got a knife in my off pocket.