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I thought Id share this happy accident with all of you alox sak lovers. Our story begins in the deepest darkest corner of a party. You know, the dim smoky enclave, away from most of the action? Ok Ok its where the drugs are.
Im not a partaker of anything more intoxicating than full strength beer and the occasional expresso coffee myself but I was standing there, catching up with a mate I hadnt seen in a few years, watching him pack bowl after bowl of this sticky smelling weed. The ventilation wasnt great. Over the next 2 hours I got completely baked on second hand smoke.
At one point he was trying to clean out the bowl and was scratching around for an implement. I loaned him my SAK soldier and we discovered that the can-opener was just the right shape to scrape the detritus out of the bowl so the blade served on that duty all night.
The next morning/mid-afternoon, after the most deeply restful sleep of my life, I woke up slightly paranoid. That soldier was, and remains a regular edc for me and it goes in my bag all over the world. I had morbid fantasies of moving through some third world airport and having a sniffer dogs ears prick up as its 600-times-better-than-ours sense of smell detects some residual canaboids caught in the workings of my knife. Ive got a vivid imagination and I foresaw some sort of Midnight Express scenario.
The cleaning product is called CLR clear. The sort of thing you use to clear gunked-up shower heads or stained coffee pots. It must be fairly acidic. After the SAK came out of the solution all the steel bits had been turned a dark grey, while the aluminium parts stayed silver. Otherwise the working parts of the knife have been un-harmed and Ive continued to use it over the following 10 years in which time its safely been through several 3rd world airports (in the checked bag of course).
Its a cool effect. The picture doesnt quite do it justice as the tools are a lot darker than they look and they stand out nicely from the sliver of the scales.
Im not a partaker of anything more intoxicating than full strength beer and the occasional expresso coffee myself but I was standing there, catching up with a mate I hadnt seen in a few years, watching him pack bowl after bowl of this sticky smelling weed. The ventilation wasnt great. Over the next 2 hours I got completely baked on second hand smoke.
At one point he was trying to clean out the bowl and was scratching around for an implement. I loaned him my SAK soldier and we discovered that the can-opener was just the right shape to scrape the detritus out of the bowl so the blade served on that duty all night.
The next morning/mid-afternoon, after the most deeply restful sleep of my life, I woke up slightly paranoid. That soldier was, and remains a regular edc for me and it goes in my bag all over the world. I had morbid fantasies of moving through some third world airport and having a sniffer dogs ears prick up as its 600-times-better-than-ours sense of smell detects some residual canaboids caught in the workings of my knife. Ive got a vivid imagination and I foresaw some sort of Midnight Express scenario.
The cleaning product is called CLR clear. The sort of thing you use to clear gunked-up shower heads or stained coffee pots. It must be fairly acidic. After the SAK came out of the solution all the steel bits had been turned a dark grey, while the aluminium parts stayed silver. Otherwise the working parts of the knife have been un-harmed and Ive continued to use it over the following 10 years in which time its safely been through several 3rd world airports (in the checked bag of course).
Its a cool effect. The picture doesnt quite do it justice as the tools are a lot darker than they look and they stand out nicely from the sliver of the scales.
