Has anyone submitted an idea to Victorinox before?

Danke42 said:
Almost every can inside our house; first world Canada kind of place needs to be opened with an opener.

If you are ever making some food and you break your culinary opener you're gonna have a bad day.
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Barbababa said:
In my house it’s the opposite, and even if it wasn’t, I would use the proper can opener from my kitchen. The same goes for basically all other tools on my SAK, I always use the intended tool for the job, the SAK is in my pocket and comes out when the intended tool is not a close aound. That usually means I am not in my home when I use my SAK.
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Stuff isn't made like it used to be. At some point your can opener just stops working. At multiple times throughout my life I have been stuck with a non-functioning can opener. At home. I am one of those people who has searched different ways to open a can. My usual method was to go around the lid puncturing it with a pointed church key. It's a slow method but it works.

Nowadays I have a huge collection of SAKs and multitools and I have multiple can openers in my kitchen. There is also a p38 on my keychain. I never want to be stuck without a can opener again.

Poke around the internet at all the howto articles and videos. Being without a functioning can opener is an extremely common occurrence.
 
Maybe a multi wrench of some sort, like the ones where one end have a spring tension and the other holds the claw, perfect for opening tight bottle caps and rounded nuts
 
Well sometime I think Victorinox needs different combinations rather than brand new tools. Pretty much every body would like better steel in the blades even only marginally betterTruth is 99% of everyday tasks is envelopes, boxes, thread and string whether it’s s90v or V,s inox.

I’d like to see the compact with, an Eyeglass screwdriver instead of a pen. A Phillips instead of corkscrew, A 3mm Flat instead of the parcel hook.

Or how about a bantam with 74mm scissors and an in-line Phillips no 1 Or while we are here a 74mm Rambler.
 
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willisoften said:
Well sometime I think Victorinox needs different combinations rather than brand new tools. Pretty much every body would like better steel in the blades even only marginally betterTruth is 99% of everyday tasks is envelopes, boxes, thread and string whether it’s s90v or V,s inox.

I’d like to see the compact with, an Eyeglass screwdriver instead of a pen. A Phillips instead of corkscrew, A 3mm Flat instead of the parcel hook.

Or how about a bantam with 74mm scissors and an in-line Phillips no 1 Or while we are here a 74mm Rambler.
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I am not an employee at Victorinox so I have no idea what they are looking for with the option of submitting ideas from users. But from what I have read, all ideas submitted are different tool combinations, and the response from Victorinox is zero. That kind of tells me that they are looking for something else…
 
Barbababa said:
I am not an employee at Victorinox so I have no idea what they are looking for with the option of submitting ideas from users. But from what I have read, all ideas submitted are different tool combinations, and the response from Victorinox is zero. That kind of tells me that they are looking for something else…
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I have seen some of that around 84 mm Scissors. I’d like bantam or small tinker with scissors myself but it’s never going to happen. Organise a petition of 10,000 or so you might get somewhere. Victorinox does Kickstarter!

At this point in time they seem to be interested in:
Creating versions of the Classic SD they can massively over charge for.
Perfume and luggage.
 
Barbababa said:
I am not an employee at Victorinox so I have no idea what they are looking for with the option of submitting ideas from users. But from what I have read, all ideas submitted are different tool combinations, and the response from Victorinox is zero. That kind of tells me that they are looking for something else…
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I think its more likely that they just don't want to hear from anybody at all.

Think about it. Everybody has ideas for their "perfect" SAK. That must get really tiresome. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks if it has already been said thousands of times. Nobody's ideas are new.

Having a suggestion box mostly just keeps people quiet without the need for you to appear rude. It keeps people from coming to you directly.
 
I submitted an idea for the Farmer X, there must have been plenty of people asking. As I promised them, I bought several lol. I also asked for an alox Rambler, still holding out hope!
 
My wishlist for Vic:

I would like a Spirit small, maybe the size of a Squirt. Please add the new nail file of the Cadet on the Classic SD. Never liked that file.
And for gods sake, please come up with a pocket clip for 91/93mm SAKs. You managed it for the Spirit, now do the SAKs!

I also would like SAKs with premium steel blades, T&T for Alox, G10 instead of cellidor and a jigsaw blade holder.

Ok, i am done dreaming. Back to reality. Yeah, a new Classic SD color...
 
Lee D said:
You have my attention lol
That would be an awesome little multi tool.
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That’s also my dream. A little plier based Victorinox the same size as the Leatherman Squirt.

And it would be cool if it had textured aluminum scales like these Alox knives.


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I would really be interested to know how Vic's R&D department looks like. One guy in front of a computer with a CAD program that is allowed to submit one design idea per month? It just feels like we get new tool ideas every 20 years or so.
 
VictaEder said:
I would really be interested to know how Vic's R&D department looks like. One guy in front of a computer with a CAD program that is allowed to submit one design idea per month? It just feels like we get new tool ideas every 20 years or so.
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More like one guy who plays with Classic SD in photoshop with color/hue settings.
 
My limited exposure to R&D = there are more Sales and Marketing people involved than engineers or designers.

I once had a business lecturer: "behind every great product there is careful accountant and liar from advertising".
 
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