Do you consider yourself as SAKs Fans?

jacknife said:
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 wouldn't mind getting one of those too!
 
I consider myself a fan. I have an old Pioneer given to me by my dad back in the mid to late 70's. It's one of my favorite knives and it's the knife I carried the most for any period of time. It has the simple cross and the paint has worn, but it's a thing of beauty to me, a great tool, and it carries well. At work I've been carrying a Rambler everyday lately and use the small phillips blade a lot. I have the Cybertool 41 that is too big to carry, but I've used it around the house for projects and throw it in a bag sometimes when traveling/vacationing as well as the Spirit multitool. Ive accumulated a few SAK's, they're well made, handy and life just wouldn't be as interesting without one, or more.
 
I'm similar to jacknife.i accumulated the models that i like a lot. Got 9 alox farmer,6 alox soldier,10 spartans, 9 sportsmans, 5 tourists, 3 supertinker,3 tinkers, plenty classics with different color and alox, the rest is double and still adding. I'm save with spares hehe.
 
jackknife said:
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.
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That reminds me of my dad. He carried his Friedrich Herder sodbuster everyday and if he had to repair something on the farm, he always had his truck nearby with dedicated screwdrivers, saw, hammer and such. That was his system and it worked for him.

I should add that I love traditional knives too and I carry Opinel nr. 7 or Böker Canoe quite often.

I have some tools on my keychain, like a small Fenix E01 flashlight and a Victorinox Ambassador, but also a lot of keys (car, home, mailbox, barn, father's home, sister's home, ..), so it is quite heavy and I don't carry it all day. If I leave the house, I put it in the pocket, but at home I put it at its place near the front door and at work it is on my desk. That is why there is an alox Soldier in my pocket most of the time, that small and sturdy thing has the tools I use most often.
 
What does it mean to be a fan? I'd describe myself as both a "fan" and a "collector" but I think it's possible to be a fan of Swiss army knives and only have one. The size of a collection is proportional to income and inversely proportional to the number of previous marriages, number of children and the cost of college tuition. ;) If you write about or photo Swiss army knives and post on Bladeforums, you're a fan in my book.

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Huge fan of Victorinox SAKs. There are only four I ever use, two of them seldom. However, I would feel lost and lonely without any ;) .
 
I have bought a couple of dozen recently on an auction site, also specializing in certain models. My favorite seems to be a pre 1985 Tinker. A nice size and very pocketable.
 
Harayasu said:
I have some tools on my keychain, like a small Fenix E01 flashlight and a Victorinox Ambassador, but also a lot of keys (car, home, mailbox, barn, father's home, sister's home, ..), so it is quite heavy and I don't carry it all day. If I leave the house, I put it in the pocket, but at home I put it at its place near the front door and at work it is on my desk. That is why there is an alox Soldier in my pocket most of the time ...
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This perfectly describes my situation. Day to day, I have on my key ring:

Building exterior door key
Building interior door key
Key to access underground parking garage
Front-door key
Garden-gate key
Office key
Office mailbox key
Basement key
Bike lock key
Screwpop
Fauxton flashlight

And if I'm out driving somewhere, add:
Car key
Garage opener gadget

That's why if I'm at home, the keys are left by the front door. If I'm at my office, they're on my desk. And if I'm driving somewhere, I usually remove the car key (is attached via a small carabiner clip) and stow the rest of the keys in the glove box.
 
I like SAK's quite a bit. They have shown me that really, a reasonably small slipjoint with a modest blade steel can accomplish almost anything I need to do. And, the other tools are surprisingly useful too.

Supratentorial, my EDC SAK is a Wenger version of that with the small blade swapped for a nail file. It's quite handy.
 
I'm big fan of SAK's ever since I saw first episode of MacGyver. I have quite modest collection of around 20 SAK's now. I got Black Pioneer and Green Cadet comming at the moment I bought Victorinox Explorer earlier this month.
 
me too thejamppa... macgyver responsible for my SAKs addiction hehehe..

you'll love the explorer... i got mine and love it! very2 usefull tool selections..
 
Some gratuitous Swiss army knife photos... SwissChamps from the USA (left) and Japan (right). Both are Swiss made (of course).

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Ahhhh..... so far i only limit myself to 4 layer saks.... gonna get me some of those champs!

its your fault supratentorial!
 
This thread reminds me that I've been meaning to pick up some Victorinox Classics as gifts.

I like those alox SAKs. The awl on my SAK is one of my favorite tools. How does that style of awl compare to the ones on the plastic handled knives? Is there any real risk of folding during use?

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Basically. It was my father's, so it's old enough so that it has a metal shield and no slots for the toothpick or tweezers.
 
I have always been a SAK fan. I like multitools and knives, but SAKs have a special place in my heart. I have recently stopped carrying my "tactical" knives in favor of a Victorinox Farmer. I like a SAKs that much more. I was carrying a BM 940. It's an EXCELLENT knife, however, all you get is one blade and the S30v steel takes a LONG time to sharpen! Whereas with the Farmer, you get a versatile tool set featuring screwdrivers (2 flat but the on the can opener can be used on philips heads), a handy saw, an excellent blade shape that is perfect for everyday tasks and is extremely easy to sharpen, a can opener, a bottle opener, and an awl that can be used for anything from poking to scraping. I also carry a multitool always but I like having the SAK in my pocket. :)
 
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