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I thought it might be fun to make some comparisons with pocket knives. For example, what not blade tool do you find the most useful? And which do you find the most useless?

Once we exhaust that topic we can move into another compare/contrast topic, or just let the thread die.

I’ll start with the tool topic. I find the most useful non-blade tool to be an awl. Most useless, the caplifter. Just because I don’t drink a lot of pop top drinks, though.
 
I find a screwdriver to be the most useful non-blade tool. Least useful for me would probably be a comb, but I still think its cool.
 
Most useful non-blade tool ... caplifter ... works for scraping, prying and screwing / unscrewing things
Least useful non-blade tool ... caplifter ... those who make beverages these days that require it, are few and far between
 
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Most useful not a blade knife blade?
To me it is a punch/awl that isn't mounted on the bottom of the knife. The punch/awl on a SAK Recruit or a Scout/Camp/Demo knife is just so daRn useful and handy. Under the knife on the back spring, like on the SAK Huntsman ... not so much. Rather an awkward place for one, really. The "large" SAK scissors are a close second place, in my biased humble opinion.
 
Most useful extra tool? Scissors. Hands down, no contest. Then tweezers but thsts not a blade type tool, so it would then be awl, then saw blade.

I think I might actually get more use from the scissors on my SAK classics, than anything else, maybe knife blades included (maybe... it'd be close).

On knife shaped tools anyway. ( to me a SAK isn't a knife anymore, its a knife shaped tool box/multi. )

On my pliers based multy, contrastingly the mode useful is the caplifter since its a huge flat driver tip; driver, pry bar, scraper, even though the tool has the three other tools on it....

BrotherJim said:
Most useful non-blade tool ... caplifter ... works for scraping, prying and screwing / unscrewing things
Least useful non-blade tool ... caplifter ... those who make beverages these days that require it, are few and far between
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In contrast ;), I have a verry hard time finding twist off caps anymore. Most good beers, especially small breweries, but even a lot of the big names have gone back to crimp on. In my experience anyway.

And yet the cap lifter isn't used much on my knives that have it... I have other fancier tools I use instead. :)
 
Ahh. Forget the most useless part... hmm. Can't say... least used, maybe would be the cap lifter, not for its function, just that I have other tools I prefer (titantim pocket tools that were gifts).

IF I had a knife with one on it, which I dont and wouldn't, itvwould definitely be that assinine comb that someone came up with.
 
Probably a tie between the cap-lifter and awl/punch for which accessory I use most, but I also use a saw a fair bit, and in the past, I used the corkscrew on my Vic Mauser so much, I actually bent it! :rolleyes: Scissors I don't use often, but they are sometimes handy. I wouldn't use a comb, unless I had a dog :thumbsup:
 
I know I’m in the extreme minority here, but I use the hell out of the nail file tool on the SAK Cadet. Not only does it clean nails well, but it doubles as poking tool (or toothpick) and philips screwdriver.

A comb is pretty worthless to me since I take a Mr. Clean approach to hair styling.
 
I find most of the non-knife secondary blades to be fairly specifically built and not overly useful unless you need them for that purpose. IE- hoofpick, awl, BRRT, fork/lifter combo(B&S)

Most useless for me: hoofpick - I don't own or work on horses :)
Most useful for me: caplifter - even though most of my favorite beers are in cans now ... I still have a love for the Beer Scout as it was the knife that fueled my addiction for the first couple years of collecting.
 
Most useful... The screwdrivers
Least useful... The corkscrews
I'd carry a SAK for nothing else but the screwdrivers, but I usually have a Shard on me.
I refuse to buy a SAK with a corkscrew, I have absolutely no need for that tool and there are plenty of models without them.
There are other odd tools that I find useless, but they aren't as common as the corkscrew so I don't even think about them.
 
I have two ties. Most used are the caplifter and nail file, and the least used are the cork screw and can opener (only once for each in the last 4 years). Flathead driver and punch would fall somewhere in-between.
 
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