You get $700 from a "knife-ferry". Would you buy a Sebenza or a Mad Dog knife?

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This is in response to Mike's request
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I think I'd go for some cool Damascus decorated Sebbie myself.

Kris

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Let me think, maybe a wood inlayed Damascus Sebbie.

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Handled my first Sebenza yesterday at Chesapaeake Knife and Tool. The large Sebenza isn't comfortable for me, as it's too big for my hand, but no question,

Sebenza! (or maybe Umfaan -- hey, for $700, why not both?)

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I would buy a Maddog and then I would break it in my vise.
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$700 US? Certainly neither of the two blades mentioned in the topic. I'd buy a real custom knife for that money, not one made by a team of lackeys and machines with a famous maker's name on it. How a about a sweet custom Elishewitz, Lightfoot, Tighe, Crawford or any of dozens of other makers' drool-worthy pieces...

I would probably even have enough change left for a sensibly priced production user.

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I would definitely buy a wood inlayed Sebenza with a bronze colored damascus blade.
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I'd buy a Raindrop Damascus Decorated Sebenza from CRK. And hey mr44, why are you bashing the folks at CRK? Do you think that they make an inferior product? Do you think Chris Reeve knives are substandard?

It's interesting that just because there's a mill somewhere in the process it makes the knife substandard to a "Custom". What's next, if you don't forge your own steel then you're a lackey? If you don't actually manufacture your own screws you're a lackey? If you don't grow your own horns/stag/ivory you're a lackey?

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I'd buy a Randall No.1 and a Benchmade AFCK. Two that have stood the test of time. I have both Randalls and Mad Dogs and can't see how the Mad Dogs are significantly better. Perhaps the Sebenza is significantly better than the AFCK but at 3x the cost I'll buy three AFCKs.
 
$700 Huh? I would get all the WIlliam Henrys I could, probably Amber Bone Lancet and Spearpoint and a carbon fiber Spearpoint to customize. Sebbies and Mad dogs just don't do it for me.By the way, wouldn't a knife ferry be a boat?

Jake

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Originally posted by Jake Evans:
By the way, wouldn't a knife ferry be a boat?
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I don't care, as long as I'd get the knife money.

MR44, not everybody likes Sebenzas, either for price or feel/looks reasons. I haven't heard people question their quality though. So these lackeys as you call them do quite an awesome job
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Kris
 
Come on guy's, Reeve's makes a nice knife but not nice enough to spend $700 on. That kind of money will buy you a Brend Sub-Hilt Fighter or a Siska Sub-Hilt
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Loki, the MD's are not significantly better that the Randalls. In fact, they are not better at all. I would take a forged O-1 or 440B blade over ground O-1 any day.

But to answer the original question: Neither

For $700, there is a host of better knives, not to mention all the Busse's, Randalls, Custom Carson's, Lightfoots, Elishewits, Mayo, strider, brend, simonich. I do like the Reeve's #1 and 2 and at just over $300 the Sebenza is a good knife, not $700.
 
I would buy the "fly" decorated small Sebenza and another standard Umfaan.
By far the most carried Reeve knife is my standard Umfaan (plain scales) with my name engraved on it.
I dearly love that knife.
Bill
 
two sebenzas without a doubt and spend the rest on a big steak and SMS!!! isnt the knife fairy named jerry????

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[This message has been edited by tom mayo (edited 05-05-2000).]
 
IMHO, a small plain Sebenza and a Project I

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