Well my opinion is simple. Buying a fixed blade knife can only use for jungle purpose. Cannot carry around as a handy tool, especially during working on site and short period outdoor activity. Carrying a fixed blade in public will cause havoc.

As what marcus said, folders is more suitable in urban. I totally agree with victor_code47 on folders being portable and its an advantage too.

I have access to that SOG model, its RM179 model # SOGAC75.

I have these brands only,

ASP, Dorcy, Essential Gear, Gerber, Glo-Toob, Inova, Laser Devices, Lightwave, Litepro, Longbow, LSI, Mag-lite, Optronics, Pelican, Photon, Prineton Tec, Quiqlite, RAM, Streamlight, TacStar, Tool Logic, Underwater kinetics, UZI, Vortex, Winchester, Dark Ops & Night-Ops.

you guys seem to love the mass marketed crap. check out CR Knives, the Sebenza is a real folding knife, make the rest look like toys. i'd love to have one.

This post has been edited by Jason: Mar 4 2006, 04:13 PM

Well its all a matter of economics. Of course ALL of us here would love ot have a Chris Reeve knife, and why not a custom. but realities here, to us the Chris REeve Custom is definately somehwat of a holy grail of collectiing (no well i hear the Moran custom, now unattainable, would be that)
And i would say not many of us here have a very extensive knife collection (well, i dont..) mostly users and crap folders (but hey Opinels are hand assembled adn polished eh? ).

Lets see, post publicly, seth, how much would it be for you to get us a "basic" Sebenza or Mnandi? or Green Beret(do they still sell em?)?

noneltheless yes no one here wiht the resources and the interest would push a CR knife aside haha

thanks for posting, and to all, welcome to the bleeding Edge Thread, i think that your thread is well born enough eh, seth?

marcus

valid points marcus, we all love to drive ferraris but we have to make do with kancils. the sebenza will set you back for at least RM1k minimum. still, much more affordable than the ferrari.

what i'm trying to say is that, you guys should look at the better knives out there. and the sebenza isn't really a collector's knife, sebenza means work in Zulu. its a working knife

AAAAhhhhhhh yessss... Sebenza.... Nice .

Good points you got there guys. And yes, I know that most of us buy those production level knives but as you can see, that is all most of us can afford and attain. From what i've read, sebenza is a good tool for any kind of situation. There's a lot of good custom/production knife out there (Not in Malaysia of course) such as krein knives, falkniven, carson knives, bob dozier knives, etc. but as you can see we can only dream of acquiring those guys.

As Marcus would put it 'Well its all a matter of economics'. Some can get 'em through the Internet but some can't 'cause of monetary problem. Most guys do know about the custom knife that are available for the high-end buyer and most of them are like myself... Can only DROOL over them .

So, which knives do you prefer Jason? Share to share with us?

RIP

This post has been edited by btard77: Mar 4 2006, 10:27 PM

hi guys. check this folder out.



This is a production by a bladesmith named Greg Lightfoot (not bigfoot ). It gonna cost u a fortune for this, USD495.00 (RM1881.00 not including S/H cost). U can say that this is my dream ferrari at the moment.

For more details, check out his website, http://www.lightfootknives.com/.

Cheers,

Max

Loving this thread though I am newbie =)

Well.. I ain't working yet.. In fact still studying.. So for me, being able to start collecting in a simple knife is good enough and blessing enough already.. Haven't even repaid my dues to my parents..

dunno collecting knife oso can make as hobby
heheheh

juz wanna ask sumthang
do u use ur knife or u keep it in frame?

i love the sebenza, can't afford it, i carry a leatherman. does more than just being a knife. its a pain to keep it sharpened though, doesnt last that long.

This post has been edited by Jason: Mar 5 2006, 01:54 AM

My balisong/butterfly knife







Bought it from a uniform shop for RM 20.

hey thanks for the info... but well concerning manipulation it's a learning process.. with blisters and blood.. ahahah and i can still only twirl but aerials are still abit difficult..

Got back. either ways Yes the Sebenza is a work tool i know that it means Work yes. Why does the leatherman hold a bad edge which one do you have and what blade steel does it use>? the new ones use 154CM steel (at least the better ones) and that rarely gets complaints.
TCE sports in Sunway has a Big, albeit pricier than it should be, Selection of Multitools (well Victorionoxes and Leatherman(s) no SOGs or anything else) try the Swisstool Spirit. Everyone says that its the best now but i have problems wiht the blade attached (waved wharncliffe rectangle thing) and its on offer. I am eyeing that Leatherman Charge Ti. looks good and useful tools instead of the ones that are redundant (i dont think i need 15 sizes or screwdrivers attached to a multitool) eventually the one you will need fits the screwdriver you left at home

sugarboi: i have that balisong, wanted to test out flipping on a basic butterfly so i took that in used it so it got nice and blunt then taped the edge and now look at instructions at balisongxtreme.com as to HOW to flip

Seonghoon: didnt lightfoot make knives for SOG before?

marcus

Seonghoon: didnt lightfoot make knives for SOG before?

marcus

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Not so sure about SOG.

I only know that he had done several knives with Companies like,
CRKT (M1 Lightfoot) , MicroTech (Lightfoot LCC Manual Action) and Timberline (Lightfoot Pistol Grip , Lightfoot Zambezi & Lightfoot Mini Put Bull .)

Max

The lightfoot pistol grip looks great..

Btw.. i cant wait for my spyderco caracara to "fly" to me!! XD

Just wanna know: Do you actually use the knife from your multitools? Or do you use the knives that you have.

I can see that there's a lot of guys around here that owns a balisong. I don't have the oppurtunity to own one since i kept forgetting to buy 'em . Oh well, sooner or later I'm going to remember to buy it and when I do.....LOOK OUT MY FINGERS! There's some abusing comin your way.

RIP

i think its good to carry a knife outside of your multitool. dont ahve one but if you carry a miultitool chances are you will need a one hand opening knife eventually
thanks for the info seonghoon
sorry guys just wanted to jumpstart the thread, reallly need that here
hehe
marcus

come to think of it, how often does one need to carry a multitool around? lets discuss and see

multitool or normal knife?

Normal knife cos i dont have a multitool... well i do. have half a multitool, an SOG crossgrip

this i take when i am going outstation and all cos then i wont have a toolbox nearby
nothin more thena that cos i dunno Leathermans here are double the price that you can get onliune and so i wait. for a credit card. either ways the one i will have is as i said before LM Charge Ti. that one looks nice and good tools

otherwise i carry a Single blade knife, Spyderco or Opinel. Victorionox if i am gonna be around people that are not understandin to knives. as it is the most non-knife people friendly knife

marcus

PS. Jason i got to handle a Sebbie recently now i want them all Classic, modern and also a mnandi! which do you prefer though classic of the newer models... damn gotta get my online credit on...

This post has been edited by marcuswong: Mar 16 2006, 10:44 AM