Do you consider yourself as SAKs Fans?

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Iyonk

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... I'm a big SAKs fanatic...

nop, i dont hate other knives since i got lots of them (bowie, flipper, and lots of other folders)

its just i got lots of sentimental and memorable events with SAKs and experience how usefull they are and couldn't imagine some of those important events without SAKS in my pockets....

yup, they're affordable, widely available, friendly looking and totally useful, even though some steel lover and highend collector sometimes look down on them...

I particullarly like the thiner models, 2 layer mostly... sometime 3 or 4 layer is ok when i'm travelling... sometime the 1 layer waiter with some mini screwdriver on the cork screw would do fine for EDC...

yup, i'm addicted to SAKS...



hopefully i'm not alone in this addiction...:)
 
Yep, you just can't overlook the practicality of a SAK. Examine a 2 layer Tinker and what it can do over a 2 layer Jack knife. I'm currently carrying an Adventurer which fits my requirements for a locking blade and implements.
 
Still my favorites. Extremely useful, relatively inexpensive with excellent quality. What's not to love?
 
Great quality to pricepoint ratio , always usefull , welcome everywhere , whats not to like .
Chris
 
I have 30+ Spyderco's, few Foxes, some old CRKT's, but the only knife I carry at the moment is my Alox Soldier :thumbup:
 
Love Saks, they are not the focus of my knife purchases, since I have no focus at all but the second knife I got when I was a kid was a vic spartan from my Dad and I still have it almost thirty years later. I bought my son his first quality knife a couple years ago and it is a vic first vic, and 2 weeks ago he bought himself a vic alox pioneer. It's funny but I have plenty of custom fixedblades and folders yet the bulk of all my vics were purchased after my customs...so no I don't look down on them and never will. they are an amazing product with some of the best QC i have ever seen...and I plan on buying more I still need a blue alox model (pioneer I think) to match my motorcycle for my keychain lol
 
I like SAKs too. They are very useful, reliable, friendly looking and not expensive knives. They are the biggest part of my knife collection. A SAK was also my first quality knife and there is still always a SAK in my pocket.
 
I can say without the slightest hesitation that if I were limited for the rest of my life to carrying knives from a single manufacturer, I would choose Victorinox. From EDC to outdoors and camping to office carry, Vic covers all the bases with ease.
 
I'm a big fan of Victorinox knives.

I've carried a Classic or Broker on my keychain for years and years.


Then there's the Tinker, Super Tinker, Silver Tech Deluxe Super Tinker, Bantam Alox, Bantam II Alox, Pioneer Alox, Swisstool CS Plus...:)
 
Wow... Great Comment guys! keep them coming!...

i can practically say that the only knives that i collect are from Victorinox...

i always smile everytime i see a person doing some task with SAKs... even the music director at my church carry SAKs daily! hehehe.
 
I'm also a fan of Victorinox Swiss army knives as well as their SwissTools. My first multi-tool (also my first knife) was a Swiss army knife. The ones that I use most often are the Rambler or Classic SD and the alox Soldier but I enjoy collecting them too.

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I think I can say I am not a sak fan, but I do like them, and appreatiate how useful one can be. But after some self examination, I realize that for most of my life, I used a regular traditional pocket knife for most things. Maybe my life has been abnormal, but I often needed a cutting tool way more often than I needed a tool. Like my my old man told me "Sometimes I just had to cut something."

From 1967, untill about the early 1990's, my edc was a Buck stockman. I carried it while on active duty in the army and for years as a civilian machinst. It did everything I every needed. If I needed a tool, there was a Sears 4-way keychain screwdriver and a P-38 on my keyring. That worked. Since I had a tool kit in the car, and one on the motorcycle, and one in the house, I found I didn't need the big sak. I had one around, and would carry it now and then. My old Wenger SI was carried, as was an old tinker. But I found that I tended to 'back them up' with a traditional pocket knife in carbon steel. They seemed to cut better than a sak. and just appealed to me. I tried to bond with the sak, but never did. Finally, I just gave them away, exept for the little classic on my keyring. I do like the classic for a versitle little urban keychain tool, box opener. But I'll have my old Case sodbuster or Opinel number 8 in my side pocket for real cutting.

Although I carried a sak for many years on and off, it just never clicked with me like the more traditional knives. I guess the ghost of my old man is looking over my shoulder, because like him, now I just carry a sears keychain screwdriver, and P-38 on the keys. I grew up watching him fix all kinds of stuff with those items plus his little carbon steel Case peanut pocket knife. The advantage seems to be that I can take these keycahin tools right through TSA security, while my sak has to go checked bagage or stay home. My sak apreatiation seems to have slowly went down, and now I only bother with the 58mm classic.

Maybe old age has brought some kind of pragmatic view into my life, but I find now that I can get along fine with just a few keychain tools and a good pocket knife without all the stuff. Sak's are nice, and neat, and novel, but I no longer see them as needed as I used to.
 
I see your point jackknife... nothings worng with that buddy... whatever floats your boat... as long as you got things that works for you... thats all d matter... you got no one to pleased hehe...
 
SAKs are great knives. I have two. A Camper and a Hiker. One reason I like SAKs is that they go almost unnoticed even when dislplayed in almost all situations. Nobody looks twice at them.
 
I like SAK's. I've got about a hundred.

Strangely I don't collect all the models. I buy about 4 or 5, sometimes 6 of a particular model I like. I've not got one over 4 layers thick.

For example I've got about 6 OHT's.
3 Rucksacks
4 alox Soldiers
4 Wenger SI's
3 Farmers
3 Pioneers
5 Cadets
5 GAK's
etc. etc. and so on.

I like traditional knives too, got a few Barlows, Trappers, and Stockmen.

But when you get right down to it....I'm an SAK man, no question about it.
 
jacknife said:
I like SAK's. I've got about a hundred.

Strangely I don't collect all the models. I buy about 4 or 5, sometimes 6 of a particular model I like. I've not got one over 4 layers thick.

For example I've got about 6 OHT's.
3 Rucksacks
4 alox Soldiers
4 Wenger SI's
3 Farmers
3 Pioneers
5 Cadets
5 GAK's
etc. etc. and so on.

I like traditional knives too, got a few Barlows, Trappers, and Stockmen.

But when you get right down to it....I'm an SAK man, no question about it.
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You have 11 OHT/GAKs!! I really need to get a GAK. Maybe tomorrow at the gunshow. A forumite has a stand there with them.
 
When I say GAK's I mean the 108mm GAK not the later OHO GAK.

Hope you find what you're looking for.

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I am a big fan. I've had SAKs on and off for ten years or so and always thought they were pretty cool but I kind of took them for granted until I moved to the UK. I previously carried a locking folder like a BM Presideo or a Kershaw JYD and didn't really consider SAKs to be real knives. When I got to England I bought a Spyderco UKPK but I find I carry it less and less in favor of my Vic Alox Soldier. I just find a one handed opening knife is kind of pointless without a lock so the SAK is just as capable.

When I get back to the States I would imagine I'll switch back to a locking knife most of the time but now there will always be room in my pocket for a SAK.
 
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