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Iyonk

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I've been carrying 2 folders or more, one is sak and the other is a one hand openable one...

this year i'm back with just a humble sak in my pocket (i got a 74mm companion in my wallet all the time since its slimmer than classic alox--- i need it for the nice scissor and nail file with modded tip for small screwdriver)... and i actually feel pretty settled... i rotate from small tinker, sportsman,soldier alox, ambassador and manager... for EDC they're all i need for urban cutting task...

i know... i know... saks are not fancy... oldschool multitools with slipjoint design... relatively soft steel (which i dont thing its "that soft" since it hold it edge respectably decent-- and also very2 corrosion resistant!)... but its actually think they're afforable and easily replaceable... not to mention realiably durrable from the track record i use them for more than 20 years..

Thats why, i honesly choose my sak if i could only carry one folder instead of any fancy folder with just main blade... sounds stupid, but more than half the time i draw a sak is to use the other tools instead of its main blade...

its just me though.... just my humble opinion...

my kershaw, buck, leatherman and others may stay in my drawer (i honesty still love them)... but, whenever i got pocket on my clothes, there will be my humble sak... (i might still carry them sometime just for admiring them, but for cutting and tools, you bet i'll draw my sak first)


this thread is not bashing any other folder... its just a complement how these small sak is essential tool on my daily need...


long live SAK!
 
SAK black alox pioneer or Alox soldier rides very ,very often in my pocket, sometimes being only knife. I carried Sak Alox soldier for 7 years exclusively prior discovering other folding knives. SAK is my first love ^^
 
It's SAK's all the way for me too, though like you I like other knives as well. I just can't see a good reason
to pick anything other than a SAK for EDC.
 
I'm with you Iyonk for all the reasons you said; affordable (I won't cry "much" if I lose it and I can have many models),
I like having more then less (tools), and the quality is good enough and then some ;)

and like you I still luv my dedicated folders but I don't carry them nearly as much.
 
Iyonk said:
i know... i know... saks are not fancy...
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'Being fancy' has never been on my list of important criteria for an EDC tool. 'Being useful' has always been right at the top of my list though. That's why I have been carrying my Victorinox Cybertool 34 pretty much every day for over ten and a half years. It may not look completely new, but the blades are sharp, nothing is broken or worn out, there is no rust anywhere that I can see - the tool still works well!

I used mine today to replace a motherboard in a server - I don't think a fancy Sebenza would have handled the same task very well. The SAK is good, useful, doesn't scare non-knife people, reliable, etc. I think I'll try EDCing my Cybertool for another decade and then decide if I want to change it for something else.
 
Gadgetaholic said:
'Being fancy' has never been on my list of important criteria for an EDC tool. 'Being useful' has always been right at the top of my list though. That's why I have been carrying my Victorinox Cybertool 34 pretty much every day for over ten and a half years. It may not look completely new, but the blades are sharp, nothing is broken or worn out, there is no rust anywhere that I can see - the tool still works well!

I used mine today to replace a motherboard in a server - I don't think a fancy Sebenza would have handled the same task very well. The SAK is good, useful, doesn't scare non-knife people, reliable, etc. I think I'll try EDCing my Cybertool for another decade and then decide if I want to change it for something else.
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infact... the only sak thats as perfectly handle your mainboard excange task would only be the great cybertool!

i'm gonna get myself one someday hehehehe...

thats the other beauty of sak! you can buy hell lots of them for a fraction of sebenza or other hi end fancy folder hehehe...

great writing gadgetaholic!
 
Dantor said:
I'm with you Iyonk for all the reasons you said; affordable (I won't cry "much" if I lose it and I can have many models),
I like having more then less (tools), and the quality is good enough and then some ;)

and like you I still luv my dedicated folders but I don't carry them nearly as much.
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yup! we practically can torture the saks without mercy! hahahaha

my edc rotations saks doent look pretty at all, with all the ding and scratches.... but the blades are razor sharp and the tools works perfectly... i carry the "battle wound" with pride! hehehehe.. as long as its still useable, they would be carried all the time...

i keep the "shiney and prestine" ones on my drawer hehehehe...
 
I just ordered a victorinox paring knife for $ 5.50 shipped.

Should get it this week.
 
Iyonk said:
I've been carrying 2 folders or more, one is sak and the other is a one hand openable one...

... i honesly choose my sak if i could only carry one folder instead of any fancy folder with just main blade... sounds stupid, but more than half the time i draw a sak is to use the other tools instead of its main blade...
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Doesn't sound stupid at all. There's a lot of wisdom in your post. :thumbup: For the life of me, I can't understand the obsession with locking single-blade folders on this site (present subforum and the Traditional Folders and Fixed Blades subforum excluded). I could very easily get by with only Victorinox knives for the rest of my life.
 
In a perfect world, I could go everyday with just a sak in my pocket and be content that I had enough knife for my lifestyle. I mean, there's not much you can't do with the right sak and a wee bit of imagination. Chuck Yeager carries only an executive for his back packing trips into the Sierra Nevada's, and Captain Scott O'Grady found his sak invaluble when he was hiding our from a bunch of Bosnian's who wanted to shoot him. He used the saw blade on his sak to make a nice little blind for himself to hide in. Certainly, a sak could be my only pocket knife.

But...

I can't break my addiction to Case peanuts. Especially when in CV. Maybe it's a generational thing. If I had to pick one single pocket knife style to reflect the time period I grew up with, it would be a small two blade jackknife of some sort. I didn't get my first sak until adulthood, and by then I'd been carrying a traditional pocket knife too long to jump ship. But I carried a sak for many years, and sometimes it was my only pocket knife. And I got by just fine. In fact, the times were too many that a screwdriver was a great thing to have. I think I've used a screw driver on a sak more than any other tool or blade. Maybe that's why I love the bantam sooo much. I could go the rest of my life with just the classic on my keyring and the bantam in my pocket. In fact, I have for long periods of time.

But then the peanut will call me. I'll be leaving, and I'll hear it from the sock drawer; "Hey bonehead, wheredaya think you're goin without me?"

I'll stop and slip the peanut into my watch pocket. My chestnut bone CV, or my old well used yellow CV, or from late March of this year, my damascus and amber bone. Since it was given to me as a gift, my edc setup has been my old standby classic in it's keyring sheath, and my damascus peanut. In truth, the little classic has done most of what I need, with just some aid now and then on the hard stuff. For years now, I've watched my better half, Karen, get by very well with only her little classic. Cut, snip, file, pry, pluck, and some things a little sak was never designed to do, it's done well. In fact, Karen is so attached to her sak, she refuses to do without one when she flies someplace to visit family. She'll fly without her classic, but soon as she lands, she stops at the very first Walmart or Target to buy a new classic. When she flies home, she'll gift it to one of her family.

Yes, a sak will do well as an only pocket knife, and I know non knife people who do well with them. But as a member of the afflicted, the knife knuts, I can't say no too well to a nice looking bone handle traditional pocket knife.

So I often carry both.

Carl.
 
As one of the knife nuts going about with five folders in his pockets sometimes, some of them being locking one handed openers with blades of up to 4" :o, the knife I always go for is either the scout knife or SAK in my pocket. Being a knife nut, we're fickle, I've been thinking about taking my Vic farmer out of my bag and putting it back in the pocket. Slim, everything I needed right there. While it's prettier than the badly faded blue alox scales, my Remington R4 scout is a little too thick. My little Vic blue alox classic can't do it all, though I have tried.
 
I have loved knives for as long as can remember, there is even video of me getting my first one when I was 2 yrs old! Honestly, even after carrying knives of every steel/size/shape possible I always comeback to my swiss army's. There is something about having the ability to fix almost every problem that could come up that I find appealing, and I like the size and way they fit in the hand. This may upset many exotic steel lovers out there but I believe victorinox and wenger have really gotten it right, they're extremely rust resistant, hold an edge as long as one should need them too (in an edc role) and name another knife that can go from really dull to RAZOR sharp with only 10 swipes on a ceramic rod!
 
Iyonk said:
Thats why, i honesly choose my sak if i could only carry one folder instead of any fancy folder with just main blade... sounds stupid, but more than half the time i draw a sak is to use the other tools instead of its main blade...
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Why should this sound stupid? I do the same. My EDC constantly changes, but i have always a SAK with me (a VicHuntsman, or a version of the Vic Trailmaster form the "Bundeswehr" - german armed forces). They are great knifes.
 
I carried this Pioneer for many years so I usually carry a Pioneer or Soldier. I like other knives, I just keep coming back to these.

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When I can pry my Yellow Peanut out of my pocket I'm planning to get rid of my Alox Bantam and even Classic from my pocket and carry just the knife I carried before all my knife craze begun.
Victorinox silver Pioneer.
My issued Pioneer served me very well during my Military service and for years after that.
I've retired that very knife and bought a brand new one some months ago
Just a great all around pocket tool.
As are all SAK's
And real Dutch/European classics as well.
 
spydutch said:
When I can pry my Yellow Peanut out of my pocket I'm planning to get rid of my Alox Bantam and even Classic from my pocket and carry just the knife I carried before all my knife craze begun.
Victorinox silver Pioneer.
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Oh no, not ditching the classic??!!:eek:

The horror, the horror. How would you sleep at night!
:D

Carl.
 
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