About that corkscrew

[dawsonbob]

I don't want to hijack another thread, so I'll start a little one here.

Regarding the corkscrew on a Vic, whether a SAK or Swisstool... does anyone actually use it? I mean, just how often does one run into a nice bottle of wine that requires a corkscrew when away from their own kitchen?

Yes, I know that the corkscrew actually fulfilled a function in years past, but today? Not so much.

Is there any other possible use for a corkscrew that I'm missing? Why carry one into the bush? I think the space used by the corkscrew would be better used by another tool. If you can plan well enough to take a bottle of decent wine along with you, why on earth wouldn't you take a real corkscrew?

Any thoughts? Maybe I'm missing something here: why are they still on Vic products?

 

[vector001]

you savage jarhead, everyone knows that one bottle of Merlot per night out is the bare minimum per person. :thumbup: stop being so virtuous, you are makin' me feel bad...LOL....


on the other hand, a little piece of ferrocerium rod can fit in that cork screw....

vec

 

[Liam Ryan]

I have used it to untie stubborn knots, works great.

 

[dawsonbob]

you savage jarhead, everyone knows that one bottle of Merlot per night out is the bare minimum per person. :thumbup: stop being so virtuous, you are makin' me feel bad...LOL....


on the other hand, a little piece of ferrocerium rod can fit in that cork screw....

vec

I may be an old, savage jarhead, but at least I know that wine comes in screw-off-top bottles. Sheeesh... I thought everyone knew that. And what's this Merlot stuff? Is that from Boone's Farm, too?

Okay, I can see that a little, tiny, itsy-bitsy ferocerium rod might fit, and I know that there are tiny screw drivers, too, that fit: what else?

 

[dawsonbob]

I have used it to untie stubborn knots, works great.

I would think that the reamer/scraper/awl/spike thing on my Farmer would work just as well.

 

[vector001]

I may be an old, savage jarhead, but at least I know that wine comes in screw-off-top bottles. Sheeesh... I thought everyone knew that. And what's this Merlot stuff? Is that from Boone's Farm, too?

Okay, I can see that a little, tiny, itsy-bitsy ferocerium rod might fit, and I know that there are tiny screw drivers, too, that fit: what else?

blasting caps.

:thumbup:

vec

 

[dawsonbob]

blasting caps.

:thumbup:

vec

Vec, have you been into the Merlot already? Everyone knows that blasting caps will not fit in a corkscrew.

Having a corkscrew, on the other hand, might help you get blasted.

 

[vector001]

Vec, have you been into the Merlot already? Everyone knows that blasting caps will not fit in a corkscrew.

Having a corkscrew, on the other hand, might help you get blasted.

we used to call wine corks "blasting caps" for that exact reeason.

....hey, ...where there's a will there's a way!

Semper Fi!

vec

 

[dawsonbob]

we used to call wine corks "blasting caps" for that exact reeason.

....hey, ...where there's a will there's a way!

Semper Fi!

vec

Makes perfect sense to me. Back when I used to drink, we called wine bottle corks "wine bottle corks," and if the cork was out of the bottle, it meant you could chug the wine. Life was simple.

But then, what do I know? I'm just one of them there savage mud Marine types.

Semper Fi.

 

[BlackHills]

I don't drink wine and I can understand your POV but I still prefer the corskcrew over a different tool in it's place. It's usually replaced with a phillips screwdriver and I don't have much need for that in the woods.

I would think that the reamer/scraper/awl/spike thing on my Farmer would work just as well.

It doesn't work anywhere near as well as the corkscrew does IMO.

 

[mneedham]

I use the corkscrew on my Swisschamp a lot (for opening wine...). I use it in hotel rooms and in the woods. Opening a bottle of good Chilean red wine in the company of a lady on a picnic has given me the opportunity to practice some of my very favorite wilderness skills:thumbup: I say keep the corkscrew...

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

As mentioned earlier, it works great for undoing knots. And as mneedham said above, it works great for urban survival.

 

[dawsonbob]

I don't drink wine and I can understand your POV but I still prefer the corskcrew over a different tool in it's place. It's usually replaced with a phillips screwdriver and I don't have much need for that in the woods.



It doesn't work anywhere near as well as the corkscrew does IMO.

I don't drink wine either, nor anything else, come to think about it (there was a time in my youth, though... but that's another story).

My question, though, was what people do use the corkscrews for nowadays? I don't really have much use for a Phillips head screwdriver in the woods, either, but I think I would have even less use for a corkscrew.

Okay, a corkscrew may work better than the reamer/scraper/awl/spike thing on my Farmer... I don't know. I haven't tried it, but it's possible. I do know that the reamer/scraper/awl/spike thing on my Farmer is an incredibly handy little tool.

 

[VA27]

I find it handy for pulling the mag spring retainer from the magazine of the 870. Its main purpose (for me) is holding the handy-dandy eyeglass screwdriver, a tool that is indispensable to us old, blind folks.

 

[Tye Possum]

I have used it to untie stubborn knots, works great.

I would think that the reamer/scraper/awl/spike thing on my Farmer would work just as well.

I've used it for that too, the awl thing can work but the sharp edge cuts up the cord easier than the more blunt corkscrew.

I mean they are meant more for your average person, not necessarily people out camping, so let's say you brought a bottle of wine to a party or something and then oh no, nobody has a corkscrew. Or maybe you're the kind of person who brings a bottle of wine out with them to celebrate some kind of accomplishment like climbing a mountain, you may have a SAK in either of those situations and if you forgot to bring a real corkscrew then out comes the SAK, just a handy backup when you forget the proper corkscrew I guess, and I'm sure there are some people who still drink wine quite frequently.

Personally though, I don't use a SAK with a corkscrew, I use the Farmer model because I didn't use the corkscrew very frequently at all and wanted one with alox scales so I got one without it because I figured I wouldn't miss it, and I don't really. If I wanted one of the SAK's with plastic handles and tools on the back however, for my purposes the corkscrew could easily be replaced with something a little more useful, but you may have noticed that they also have knives with a screwdriver in place of the corkscrew, so there you go, problem solved.

Hmm apparently you did notice the screwdriver and problem not solved... Still, what tool could fit into that little spot on a SAK that you would find more useful? The corkscrew has a good couple uses and some people use them quite a bit, the screwdriver could be used for a whole bunch of stuff, maybe not outdoors but around town. Basically it sounds like you've already solved your own problem by using the Farmer which has no corkscrew, I could understand thinking a change would be needed if there was a corkscrew on every model but there isn't. So maybe for the people who use them for their intended purpose a lot, it should stay.

 

[tknife]

I thought it was just a screwy holder for the tiny screwdriver.

 

[dawsonbob]

I use the corkscrew on my Swisschamp a lot (for opening wine...). I use it in hotel rooms and in the woods. Opening a bottle of good Chilean red wine in the company of a lady on a picnic has given me the opportunity to practice some of my very favorite wilderness skills:thumbup: I say keep the corkscrew...

Okay, someone who actually uses the corkscrew for its intended purpose. If I were fortunate enough to lure a lady into the woods for a picnic, I would probably want the corkscrew, too.

We have a plus for the corkscrew.

 

[dawsonbob]

I find it handy for pulling the mag spring retainer from the magazine of the 870. Its main purpose (for me) is holding the handy-dandy eyeglass screwdriver, a tool that is indispensable to us old, blind folks.

I'm an old blind guy, too, but I carry two or three of those little kits with extra screws an tiny screwdrivers.

I may be overly cautious, but it's better than being blind.

 

[gadgetgeek]

I've used it for it's intended purpose, I also happen to have a "kit" for impromptu picnics. Add to that the complete loss of credibility I'd suffer if I was unable to elegantly get into a bottle of wine due to being unprepared. but it is more of an urban tool, if I was heading to the woods, I'd put the wine in a platy-bag and save weight.

 

[dawsonbob]

I've used it for it's intended purpose, I also happen to have a "kit" for impromptu picnics. Add to that the complete loss of credibility I'd suffer if I was unable to elegantly get into a bottle of wine due to being unprepared. but it is more of an urban tool, if I was heading to the woods, I'd put the wine in a platy-bag and save weight.

I'm beginning to get the feeling that I've underestimated the humble corkscrew. It seems like a lot of you really do use it.

What prompted me to start this thread was that I felt that the venerable corkscrew was passe, long past its usefulness, and could probably be replaced on a Vic with something more useful. Maybe, just maybe, I was wrong.