Why

[skivic]

I love my sebenza, and im sure most of you do to, but why is like every 3rd post on the for-sale forums a CRK? idk just find it hard to believe that man people dont like the knife.

 

[3migo]

Most people that are selling them are huge CRK fans, and are simply selling one CRK to fund another.

 

[magicblade]

If you notice, most of the crk's for sale are just plain,or common ones, most people that sell them are huge fans and have all the ones with exotic woods and designs and simply want to try something different, or as mentioned, they need to fund a purchase.
That's the way it is, you start with the plain ones and end up getting the hard to get , but I assure you, they don't sell them because they dislike them in general.
Also, some of them just don't get used, they are just safe queens, I tell you from experience, you only need one crk most of the times to get the job done,but carry multiple because it's fun.

 

[Rhinoman]

I've known two owners of Sebenzas that sold them simply because the realized that they'd never carry them. They were too expensive and too beautiful for those guys to use them for what they were built for. Ultimately, owning the knife didn't make sense for them.

 

[atony]

I'm a huge fan of CRK knives and sold my fair share, heck I'm a fan of a lot of knives and that's the problem. I usually have to free up some funds from somewhere.

 

[Ernie1980]

I think that magicblade nailed it: when you start your CRK collection you usually start with a plain version (or 2 or 3).
After a while, you get bit by the inlay bug and start getting those. After a while, you see that most of your plain ones don't get carried so you keep one and sell the rest.
At least this is how it went for me!!!!

 

[arskrg]

I think that magicblade nailed it: when you start your CRK collection you usually start with a plain version (or 2 or 3).
After a while, you get bit by the inlay bug and start getting those. After a while, you see that most of your plain ones don't get carried so you keep one and sell the rest.
At least this is how it went for me!!!!

^this for me, too. Within my first month I bought a small plain Insingo, then a small micarta Insingo, then a CF small, then 2 different Umnumzaans, then a few with wood inlays. Then the fog lifted a bit and I realized that I had over $3,000 in knives in a drawer that I'd never be able to bring myself to use. Sold off all but the first small Insingo, then bought, traded, and sold a bunch more since then. Now I'm down to 2 Insingos (lg and sm) and a Mnandi, and I'm fine with that.
I think a lot of people just get hypnotized by a certain variation, buy it, eventually get bored with it (or need to free up funds, as stated above), and move on to the next variation. I don't think they're dissatisfied with the knives, it's just that expensive search for "the one."