Chris Reeve Small Sebenza 21 Insingo or Drop point blade?

Which blade type to get?

  • Insingo

    Votes: 52 52.5%

  • Drop Point

    Votes: 47 47.5%
  • Total voters
    99
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Armen

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I'm most likely going to pick up a small sebenza tomorrow. I'm having a hard time choosing between the 2 blade types.

The drop point is nice but it looks like a regular pocket knife to me.
The Insigno blade looks a bit exotic to me.

which blade do you guys prefer and why?

update: ended up getting the insingo blade. Forgot to let you guys know.
 
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CableGirl said:
Get the Insingo blade. There I decided for you.

......... Its what us girls do and we are good at it. ;)
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My wife likes the insingo blade. I think it’s different and more exotic looking but a friend pointed out how it looks like a mini santoku knife so I can’t get the image out of my head now. The drop point is a classic shape but kind of boring and of course the tanto looks like a mini katana
 
The Drop Point is the classic and the Insigno is said to have a more durable point (depending on how you use/abuse your knife). On a personal note, my Sebenzas are all drop points and I haven’t snapped the point off of any of them yet. As the old saying goes, “Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice”...

On the note of small vs. large... My first Sebenza was a small one. At the time, it made sense and I felt a large was unimaginable. Two weeks after getting that small one, I ordered a large and all the rest (another half-dozen) have all been larges.

Happy trails!
 
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Insingo.
I currently own 4 CRKs (because I haven't gotten around to selling my large micarta)... of which 3 are insingos. There is only one reason I bought a drop point - no wood inlays with insingo blade (to the best of my knowledge). And there's only one reason I haven't sold it - snakewood.
 
I obviously prefer this one:

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Armen said:
I'm most likely going to pick up a small sebenza tomorrow. I'm having a hard time choosing between the 2 blade types.

The drop point is nice but it looks like a regular pocket knife to me.
The Insigno blade looks a bit exotic to me.

which blade do you guys prefer and why?
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I prefer the drop points. The insingo is nice too but the drop point is more my style. It has a good hollow grind which makes it a good slicer but at the same time when you look at the spine it is a friggin’ railroad spike.

The Drop point blade isn’t as obviously special at first glance but when you look at them from this angle the spine and tip of the drop point plus the slicey blade make it a very well thought out and special design.

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Stumpy72 said:
The Drop Point is the classic and the Insigno is said to have a more durable point (depending on how you use/abuse your knife). On a personal note, my Sebenzas are all drop points and I haven’t snapped the point off of any of them yet. As the old saying goes, “Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice”...

On the note of small vs. large... My first Sebenza was a small one. At the time, it made sense and I felt a large was unimaginable. Two weeks after getting that small one, I ordered a large and all the rest (another half-dozen) have all been larges.

Happy trails!
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I live in Los Angeles so the large is kind of risky to carry as an EDC.
 
halden.doerge said:
If I absolutely had to choose, based strictly on utility in everyday use, I'd go Insingo. But man, I do love the drop point as well!
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Hmm found an older post on this forum where a member stated that the thumb stud on the insingo sits further out from the handle and that it’s easier to open? Is this true since you have both?
 
Stumpy72 said:
The Drop Point is the classic and the Insigno is said to have a more durable point (depending on how you use/abuse your knife). On a personal note, my Sebenzas are all drop points and I haven’t snapped the point off of any of them yet. As the old saying goes, “Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice”...

On the note of small vs. large... My first Sebenza was a small one. At the time, it made sense and I felt a large was unimaginable. Two weeks after getting that small one, I ordered a large and all the rest (another half-dozen) have all been larges.

Happy trails!
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I believe that the idea that the Insingo has a stronger tip is largely a perception error.

When we look at the tip of the insingo from the spine we see that it actually fairly thin. The tip on the Insingo is on the edge side of the knife so it doesn’t benefit from the thick spine.

If we look at the insingo tip from the flat of the blade it looks quite stout because of the obtuse angle which the edge meets the swedge. In my experience stock thickness has alot more to do with tip strength than how obtuse the tip is; particularly on knives with sheepsfoot and wharnie type blades where the tip doesn’t benefit from the spine thickness
 
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Armen said:
Hmm found an older post on this forum where a member stated that the thumb stud on the insingo sits further out from the handle and that it’s easier to open? Is this true since you have both?
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I just took a look and they look identical to me. Thumbstuds and bladestock are the same on both the drop point and the insingo, at least on my examples.
 
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