Yet another great idea from Chris.....take apart that knife!

As dumb as this sounds, and serious knife guys will know what I'm talking about, It almost gives you a closer relationship with your blade. Being able to take it apart, clean it, lube it. Gives you one more thing you can do with your blade past just sharpening. Your maintaining your pride and joy. You take care of it, it will take care of you.

Anyone know what I'm getting at? Or feel the same way?
 
MCoutdoors88 said:
As dumb as this sounds, and serious knife guys will know what I'm talking about, It almost gives you a closer relationship with your blade. Being able to take it apart, clean it, lube it. Gives you one more thing you can do with your blade past just sharpening. Your maintaining your pride and joy. You take care of it, it will take care of you.

Anyone know what I'm getting at? Or feel the same way?
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Yep totally agree
 
MCoutdoors88 said:
As dumb as this sounds, and serious knife guys will know what I'm talking about, It almost gives you a closer relationship with your blade. Being able to take it apart, clean it, lube it. Gives you one more thing you can do with your blade past just sharpening. Your maintaining your pride and joy. You take care of it, it will take care of you.

Anyone know what I'm getting at? Or feel the same way?
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Im with ya Nathan, totally agree!
 
MCoutdoors88 said:
As dumb as this sounds, and serious knife guys will know what I'm talking about, It almost gives you a closer relationship with your blade. Being able to take it apart, clean it, lube it. Gives you one more thing you can do with your blade past just sharpening. Your maintaining your pride and joy. You take care of it, it will take care of you.

Anyone know what I'm getting at? Or feel the same way?
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With all the other brands of knives I have, it wasn't until I owned a CRK that I had a true ownership of a knife. IMO, the maintenance on a CRK is another attribute that makes a CRK simply the best all around knife I own.
 
I'm moving more and more to the Sebenza side with easy assembly and adjustment. I'm in the process of weeding out my Zaans in favor of a large micarta Insingo.... Perfection that can be taken apart, cleaned, and assembled on just a couple minutes.
 
I am almost at the point of the year when I will take all of my CRK knives and have a cleaning party. I will take over the kitchen table and take all of my knives apart and clean and lube them. I enjoy doing it, and it's even better when I am not voiding a warranty to do it!
 
I don't think I have taken any of my CRK's down in quite some time, but can think of 2 that may need to have the lint blown out of them.
Really, even if you do have the tools to service your knife, it certainly is nice that CRK did include the tools to service them. CRK constantly evolves in one form or another to help the end users by providing quality that also includes the tools provided. For me, more often than not, cleaning my knives is more of an escape..much like doing an oil change, cleaning a gun or whatever you use to get away...It may not need it; it's just a therapeutic, almost mindless distraction when needed..
 
bhyde said:
For me, more often than not, cleaning my knives is more of an escape..much like doing an oil change, cleaning a gun or whatever you use to get away...It may not need it; it's just a therapeutic, almost mindless distraction when needed..
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Yes....this is it!.....the moment of clarity! I couldn't agree more. Stropping too......great stress relief, followed by paper cut tests......keeps me from yelling at the dog. ;)
 
kidcongo said:
Yes....this is it!.....the moment of clarity! I couldn't agree more. Stropping too......great stress relief, followed by paper cut tests......keeps me from yelling at the dog. ;)
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Nothing like a fresh edge, curling up paper. Such a great feeling, having a clean sharp edge in your pocket. I really don't enjoy sharpening much, I just do it out of necessity but I do find the last few stages of honing (like stropping) very relaxing.

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I have always felt that the tools were included for the owner to perform routine maintenance such as cleaning, lubing, etc. Only the finest items would give you a tool to do so......... But more than anything, I think it speaks about the simplicity of the sebenza design. What other folder out there is so simply made, can be taken apart with such ease and put back together by a novice and be good as new....??? I know there are a few threads here and there where people have an issue, but its largely because it was their first time, or there was an issue. The sebenza design is a classic and far better designed than most folders out there. EVERY Integral Framelock is a copy off the sebenza design. The sebenza is just plain simple simple simple. As much as the great Buck 110 set the benchmark for lockback folders way back when, the Sebenza set the bar for the framelock design which has been copied as much as the buck 110, not only in the semi production market like CRK, Hinderer, Strider, but nearly every custom maker out there these days uses the framelock design. All are great knives, but its hard to beat the original. Give me a sebenza any day over any of the others....!!!
 
I definitely appreciate the simplistic design and takedown of the Sebenza, and how the pivots are a standard hex which comes with the knife. No special $75 tools to buy. No buying bike tools and taking a dremel to them to make makeshift pivot tools. Sebenzas are a dream to take apart compared to the nightmares I've had taking apart Hinderers and Striders.
 
At some point I just got tired of all the fing around with other knives. If you lube and clean you CRK every so often it works just like the day you bought it no re-centering the blade or changing out parts just good old fashion reliability. Which is just a testament to the design and build quality. I have said it before "good enough just is not in crk book of phrases" They always seem to go that extra step on every part of the knife. They are as near perfect as a folding knife can get.
 
What a thread!!!!! All of your comments just epitomize what a CRK Sebenza is all about. The comments reflect what I have felt for Sebenzas for awhile, but could not translate into words!!! Kudos to you all for 'hitting the nail on the head' when describing this classic.

I too, have gotten into other knives & enjoy taking them apart for cleaning, inspecting, & just admiring the workmanship, but with other brands, it really does become a chore to reassemble the knife & then fiddle with the pivot, fiddle with the scale screws, etc., to make sure the blade goes back close to center, all the while, needing 3 hands to hold everything together. Once you've done that a few times, the simplicity & awesome design of the Sebenza hits you like a ton of bricks!! It's almost like that jingle "I could've had a V8" (substitute Sebenza for V8).

Now, I think I want to go & buy another Sebenza!!!!!
 
Haha when is that not the case.
"there's always room for sebenza "

There's another one for ya ;)
 
Does Hinderer offer a spa service?
CRK does not charge to sharpen a knife, I think Hinderer charges $15.
How is Hinderer's customer service? We know what CRK's is like.
 
I love reeve knives. And especially when i have to clean them.
I dont have to assemble a knife with 10-15 screws in order to get it back together and working properly

And just to be clear here i have cleaned all my knives just not the crk's
Any knive can get and will get gummed up.
 
jjg6319 said:
Does Hinderer offer a spa service?
CRK does not charge to sharpen a knife, I think Hinderer charges $15.
How is Hinderer's customer service? We know what CRK's is like.
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Answer might be best found in the Hinderer subforum...
 
uofaengr, I know the answers to the questions. These were directed to the posters on the first page that took offense to some benign comments on Hinderers. :D
 
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