the funny thing is now they're not the best, but have become the most popular

It reminds me of Nick Saban.

Cough cough cold steel, goes for popularity rather than quality.

Too bad everything that CRK produces is boring.

@@frankthecat1660tools are boring. How many people with an Oz Roosevelt or Grimsmo Norseman or any of these wildly expensive ($1,000+) knives ever have even a micro millimeter of wear on them? But they’re the ones you see in pictures and they’re the ones you see people flexing. In reality, everyone I have seen that uses knives for a purpose has a Sebenza and they’re all beat to shit.

Dude, I don’t even want to think about what my children’s children’s iPhone will be able to do. In terms of being a tool, the features of my iPhone easily outweigh a knife.

@@bloatedsodium7301 good knife will always will be good knife 🔪 👌 and R is stoning unbelievable

@@bloatedsodium7301, you’re missing the point.

@@baddoopey I’m listening, go ahead

@@bloatedsodium7301 The mind is ze best toul

Damn right. Or for some of us, ALL the knives we want.

+EvilBillRoasts How many Manufacturing Quality Awards have either of those companies won? Hell....Cold Steel doesn't even make their own knives. What a joke.

+EvilBillRoasts how can anyone compare a cold steel to anything chris reeve makes. Cold steel is inferior sir.

+EvilBillRoasts I've owned a Sebenza and multiple Cold Steel knives and to say that Cold Steel is superior or CRK is complete shit. I enjoyed all of the knives I owned, but I always found something wrong with my cold steels in the fit and finish. Whether it was a blemish in the knife, blade play, off centered blade, gritty or stiff action, I found some inconsistency in all of them. My sebenza was perfect. Dead center, smooth as butter, no blade play in any direction, razor sharp edge that held, and superior materials. I get that not everyone can appreciate the sebenza, especially given its price, but the quality is far superior and I see it lasting longer than any cold steel.

quite a few actually and "doesn't even make their own knives" is not really an arguement

😂😂😂

No way he would never stoop that low 🤔

that's his personal knife that he depends upon.

Son of a Zombie Trolololo

He used to squeeze that Spyco like a stress relief ball when he heard his son was putting a '31' on the Sebenza boxes..

You sure it wasn't a Sharpmaker? That's the recommended sharpener for CRK.

therealeightabove Haha I just started watching this video and he said his shit is flat like 10 times

He's definitely proud of it!

nowadays i like your stuff better :) one day hopefully i can afford one haha...

lberger100 "And here we have the suicide nets."

Probably be a lot more kids than adults there 😅

Lol I'd imagine Chris would have one of the spyderco sage's with the Chris Reeve ti frame lock. The knife was made in homage to him after all.

That's his edc

If u now this this knife is worth 350 ..ur not a tru life collector

@@glamlifeleesh5163 uh what?

Is it your first? I bought my first INKOSI in s45vn about 4 months ago and I now own 2 Inkosi and 2 Sebenzas...21 and 31 I sold about 12 Benchmade and a few spyderco because I just never feel like carrying anything else other than a Reeve nowdays... I think Chris Reeve knives are an acquired taste, kind of like bourbon or a fine wine you only understand later into your knife Journey...

I remember watching this video several times before my knife arrived and man did it do the trick...

Lol

Lol. I thought the same thing. Why grind to a tenths tolerance and measure with an instrument that is only accurate to +/- 0.002"?

hahaha I noticed that too. I was like lol wat?!

That's a Mitutoyo digital caliper with a resolution of 0.0005". Harbor freight doesn't even sell any Mitutoyo brand products.

@@kevinkesler6856 Come on buddy, that's a Harbor Freight level caliper. Mitutoyo caliper don't look like that.

unitedgray An aeroplane is a much bigger object. If he compared it to tolerances of swiss watches, then I'd be impressed.

Quat Ernie The size of the object doesn't matter. An airplane for example, is comprised of thousands of small parts, each of which are held to the same (or greater) standard than a Swiss watch. I've made welded-aluminum transport carts for solid fuel rocket engines, that were held to +- .003 flatness across a 15 square foot area. That is the kind of nonsense you see in the aerospace industry. Even parts that seem trivial are held to extremely tight tolerances. If your watch fails, the manufacturer replaces it. If an engine fails at 20,000 feet, people will die.

unitedgray Well, the scales _are_ held to a ~ .00016 in. tolerance.

OriginalName That's because he uses a surface grinder. Unless you're a complete idiot, grinders will always hold a tolerance less than .0005 inches. They are very easy to use, and the fact is, that step in the process is overkill for his application.

+unitedgray Totally with you. Reeve holds nice tolerances, as seen in the video, but his precision/tolerance isn't even close to Aerospace manufacturing. Quite honestly, "0.0001" is a ridiculous tolerance for a knife. Its not even practical. By the time you hold that knife in your hand for 1 minute, it has raised the length of that knife by 1+ thou. Its all overkill and unpractical in a lot of ways. Far more factors are gonna dictate the smoothness/functionality of the knife. Hell one spec of dust would throw your knife out of tolerance by a country mile. Holding to +-0.002 is more practical and would probably save him so much money. Same outcome. And for Quat Ernie: Its called coefficient of expansion. Small objects are very easy to achieve tolerance. This guy doesn't have shit on any aerospace industry. He wouldn't have first clue of complexity of aerospace manufacturing.

Gabriel MacDonnell hey rich people need letter openers too !

Why not? Some of us buy knives to use them. Lol.

Although not CRK but you should see how many ZTs I've snapped the tips, regrind it and keep using until I lost it on a job site

17 XV I broke the tip off a small 21 insingo and abused a large 21 so much that I bought a new blade for it.

​@@peterisrael2012 lol. Even in you're year, to this year 22.. no need to be RICH to afford a CRK. 60% of my collection costs more than a " not sharp out the box knife" CRK. Not impressed whatsoever with these overpriced butter knives.

Nice knives, but they are far from the best knives ever, as you say.

But you pay for it

Robert Losekamp i’ve handled a sebenza that’s off on the frame-lock tension. I also own an uncentered griptilian and a hidden canyon hunter with an uneven secondary bevel. But i ain’t hating.

I had a Sebenza. It was horrible, off center, dull, poor lock up and they messed up the pivot tightness. I sent it back and they said there wasn't anything they could do and just gave me a refund. I'd much rather have a ZT 0450cf or 609. I know generally Sebenza's are good but my personal experience wasn't too good.

Neo hoy That didn’t happen. Their support is legendary. You’re a liar.

😂🤣

CRK. Over rated ... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hqxye8Wa09G-mXU.html

You have it yet?

G79911997 the axis lock is patented?? Wow. What a huge selling point. It can resist more than a half ton of force? Perfect. Just what I need. I hate it when I exert a thousand pounds of pressure on my knife with my bare hands and the lock fails.

taheelur1 agreed. Just yesterday I was using the weight of my suburban to help me cut things and my sebenza failed :( man I wish I had an axis lock. I mean who really cares about bladeplay, tolerances, and failed omega springs, amirite?

It really depends do you want the very best out of a knife? By that i mean is the perfect action necessary to you do you want above all else that feel of greatness about a knife? Honestly its not for me i dont need that out of a knife i want something that can work but i do understand why someone would buy this its art it can cut yes better than most things out there but for me 500 is just too much.

Grimsmo Knives. That's all I have to say about that. Actually, let me check that. Every single production knife in the world is in some way computer generated now a days. His knives aren't custom, they're production runs.

It's not the outer surface of the titanium scales that need to be that flat, it's the inside of those scales that the pivot and bushing system and blade interact with. That's why the Sebenza has a reputation of being the smoothest and tightest fit knife in the production market, and honestly probably has better tolerances than 99% of custom knives too. They are top quality products that even owners of competing brands admire for their engineering and quality, look what Sal glasser says abotu them. That's how you know they are the real deal, when even your biggest competitors admire and openly promote your product.

@@londiniumarmoury7037 I may have to seek one out someday to put my grubby mitts on one.

@@TeensierPythonI've handled a few and just ordered a Sebenza 21. I'd recommend trying to get a sebenza 21, the new inkosi and umnumzaan etc just aren't the same, get one witht he precision bushing pivot system, they are much better if you do get one.

I'd hold off buying any mid techs then. His knives are the standard of the industry. I think he is simply a guy who's critical & a perfectionist. That's probably why the tolerances, fit & finish are so damn good. The things he is critical of. The average knife lover would never even notice.

+EvilBillRoasts The knife industry has would disagree with you. The reason why Chris Reeve Knives are the standard is because he has won more Manufacturing Quality Awards, than any other knife maker bar none. It's not even close. The 2-3 times he didn't win was a joke. Now when you're knives are the standard, that all knives, including custom knives are compared to, then you are arguably the best.

I don't understand why you believe the correct heat treat for the application is sub-par. Reeve was perfectly clear on the video; MOST customers are better served by the lower hardness. If you can take care of 62 Rockwell steel, you can certainly touch up Reeve's S35 without issue.

Right I'd rather have 5 $50 knives than a $500 sebenza that I'd be scared to cut anything other than paper...

One can assume a good machinist always checks their work....who knew?!