I always process my images to less than 600px wide and less than 100k in size, my photobucket has thougands of images and it’s still only 2% full’ I’ve been using it for years.
And the Phoenix is a very good looking knife, I’d be tempted to save it for “going out best” occasions, I couldn’t bring myself to EDC it and use the hell out of it, there’s other knives for that.
Dale, the more I see your Sebenza the more I seriously consider selling mine to get the CF insert version, I like the look of the Ti behind the insert (but could never totally give up CF). If mine wasn’t a dealer exclusive I would definitely do that. But they’re not the easiest to get, had to watch for mine I have, if I ever wanted to go back I probably wouldn’t be able to. Maybe I’ll just gather up all my other knives.•, sell them and just have two sebbi’s.
Ichiro Hattori of Japan made the original series. He started out in 1954 at Masohiro in Japan making knives for export to Tekna. In 1971 he opened his own workshop and made hunting knives. The fighter first appeared in 1978 as a handmade from his shop and could be ordered with a choice of 4 woods for handle material. Mine was ordered in 1982 with Cocobolo. I ordered one in Ebony in 1989 that is slightly different in blade geometry (about 1.5mm longer with a slightly different placement of the blood groove). I think it would be hard to find all the minor variations as there are no serial numbers and no differentiation of lots that I can find. Junglee approached Hattori in 1993 about mass producing his knives in Taiwan. All of the Junglee production has been in 440c while originals can be found in ATS-34 or more recently AUS-8 steels. The big draw to the Junglee was its price at <$75 and its immediate availability. Originals can still be bought if/when he makes a run of them but they run $300-600 depending on materials (still a bargain for the quality) and usually sell out his production runs in less than a day.