The CRK Anticipation Thread - Show Your 'Inbound's!

orangejuice · Sep 28, 2020

Eagerly awaiting shipping notice on a large one of these.

jascolli · Sep 29, 2020

I have a Small Inkosi Insingo with red micarta on the way... can't wait. It's my first Inkosi

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sailfish · Sep 29, 2020

jascolli said:
I have a Small Inkosi Insingo with red micarta on the way... can't wait. It's my first Inkosi

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Since the one-piece inlay on the 31 seems to have grown on me finally, maybe I can say perhaps it wasn't a bad idea, to help keep the Sebenza and Inkosi more distinguished from each other. The first inlaid Sebenzas were one-piece anyway.

Dcdavis · Sep 29, 2020

sailfish said:
Since the one-piece inlay on the 31 seems to have grown on me finally, maybe I can say perhaps it wasn't a bad idea, to help keep the Sebenza and Inkosi more distinguished from each other. The first inlaid Sebenzas were one-piece anyway.

I’ve always preferred the Inkosi inlays over the 21s

sailfish · Sep 29, 2020

Dcdavis said:
I’ve always preferred the Inkosi inlays over the 21s

I don't know if I could honestly choose one's look over the other. I think each inlay looks better for its respective scale shape, so for me it would all work out either way. The pivot bushing and longer, thinner blade was probably the main thing that made the Sebenza win me over though.

jrudd0712 · Oct 1, 2020

I just received the plain Jane large Inkosi left handed last week. I like it so much that I now have the small Sebenza with black micarta inlays coming this weekend.

Austin James · Oct 1, 2020

loon#r said:
Typical to 2020, there was a scare when this showed no status change from parcel acceptance on August 4th up to just this past Thursday, no fault of @sextant mind you.

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I know the feeling! This is my #1 all-time grail right here.. Nice pick up!

peha · Oct 1, 2020

jrudd0712 said:
I just received the plain Jane large Inkosi left handed last week. I like it so much that I now have the small Sebenza with black micarta inlays coming this weekend.

I have a small Inkosi and it just fits perfect in my hand... now I just ordered a large... expected to arrive Saturday!

Hawk45 · Oct 2, 2020

Little to match the biggie.

RoyalHolic · Oct 3, 2020

Just bought this bad boy off here this morning, first CRK Damascus.

sailfish · Oct 4, 2020

Courtesy of the exchange. Along with a new pin from CRK so I can go lanyardless when I wish without cutting it.

Dcdavis · Oct 4, 2020

sailfish said:
Courtesy of the exchange. Along with a new pin from CRK so I can go lanyardless when I wish without cutting it.

Nice. Is the clip side blasted?

sailfish · Oct 4, 2020

Dcdavis said:
Nice. Is the clip side blasted?

Yeah. And I'm glad because I think it looks better on this particular knife than polished would. Makes it more of a user too.

Dcdavis · Oct 4, 2020

sailfish said:
Yeah. And I'm glad because I think it looks better on this particular knife than polished would. Makes it more of a user too.

I like it

sailfish · Oct 4, 2020

Dcdavis said:
I like it

That series is what the damascus 25's were.

Dcdavis · Oct 4, 2020

sailfish said:
That series is was what the damascus 25's were.

Not sure if they made any lefty’s

Ajack60 ?

Ajack60 · Oct 4, 2020

Dcdavis said:
Not sure if they made any lefty’s
Ajack60 ?

If they did, they weren’t sold in the U.S., that was when lefty’s were as rare as hens teeth. I managed to get a large Tanked from the 2016 Blade Show directly from CRK. It was supposed to go overseas.

Steely Eyes · Oct 6, 2020

First CRKs!!
So...This was last week's purchase.

Of course, I caught the bug and had to double down. This one is on the way.

sailfish · Oct 6, 2020

After some exhaustive scavenger hunting and thorough inventory combing, I finally managed to find a dealer that still had one of these new in stock. These plain 21's are about as scarce as they come now.

sailfish · Oct 7, 2020

sailfish said:
Courtesy of the exchange. Along with a new pin from CRK so I can go lanyardless when I wish without cutting it.

Was having trouble deciding how hard of a user this was gonna be. Seeing it now though I'm leaning towards a "nights and weekends" knife. I have enough beater Sebenzas there's probably no sense getting the shiny ones all scarred up and beat to hell.