How many of your daily tasks could be done with a SAK instead of your tactical knife?

[Joe Dirt]

Joe Dirt,

You sure know how coat a field in honey and stomp on wasps' nests!

Did you mean to say cover yourself in honey?

I don't get what coating a field in honey will do.

 

[rocktheflock]

SAK's----IMO---- can be brandished with out scaring kids or women or bringing the attention of most of our underpaid keepers of the peace. They are more of a novelty than a serious tool or weapons, Ok now the purist can attack. I have my kevlar on.

 

[Menocu]

Is it not common sense that the SAK is not equal in quality to a full size screwdriver, can opener, cork screw, scissors, or knife, etc?

I think the POINT.. is that it will do all of those things as well as you need in a pinch. Not that it's better than any single-purpose tool that cost 4-5 times as much.

It's no machete, but then neither is a Sebenza. (and I'd like to see that S30V after you turn a bunch of screws or open a bunch of cans)

If you need a single, specialty tool - bring one! If you want a compromise tool for light work and high versatility, I think a SAK certainly fits the bill.

Unless I need to chop a path through the jungle, a SAK and a nice Benchmade cover just about any need I'm going to have in daily life. I'm more likely to need to open a letter or a box,cut some rope, open a bottle, or take apart a household appliance than I am to be cutting fishing poles, skinning deer, or clearing paths.

 

[Easyrider]

Pretty much everything I do could be done with a SAK or a slipjoint. I don't know
if I consider my BM 440 Opportunist a tactical knife, but I have known to carry a Queen model #41 Copperhead on occasion.

 

[crispy]

I have two pockets in my jeans.......one for my mini grip one for my SAK

 

[thombrogan]

I don't get what coating a field in honey will do.

I don't know either, but I assume it would increase the chances of everyone present to get stung by wasps, bitten by bees, mauled by bears, and photographed by perverts.

 

[Krull]

95% of what I do is done by ether my SAK Solider or my Douk-Douk;I carry both and for the other 5% I've my Spyderco Salt1

 

[Sword and Shield]

Technically, I could get by with just the SAK for my cutting tasks, but I find a locking single blade folder to be much more convienient to deploy and use 99.9 percent of the time. Can you use a SAK one handed? I didn't think so.

Vic One-Hand Trekker.

As for me, all of it- and I work construction. Nothing but non-locking, and it's all I need.

 

[Artfully Martial]

How many of your daily tasks could be done with a SAK instead of your tactical knife?

Eight!

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[Denix]

I always carry a Spyderco or a Sebenza with me. The fact is that 99.9% of the time, I pull out my Swisschamp when I need to cut something...

Guy

 

[mugwump867]

After spending the last year or so trying to find the perfect EDC knife I've finally come back around to just carrying a SAK. For my everyday use it offers up all the functionality I need and doesn't cause too much twittering among the sheeple here on the left coast. When I hike into the woods and mountains I do carry a fixed blade. Of course give me another few months and I'll probably grow bored of the SAK.

 

[A Dogs Best Friend]

I would like to know how many of you guys clean fish or game or cut fishing poles with a SAK? Or clear a path through limbs, vines or briars? I still can't believe that so many people actually take the SAK seriously as a usable cutting tool. Cutting bananas, peeling grapes, opening letters, maybe.

It is a useable cutting tool, for what most people do on a daily, domestic basis. Open mail and packages, cut string, etc. It will do most of what you need a knife for every day.

 

[Joe Dirt]

I would like to know how many of you guys clean fish or game or cut fishing poles with a SAK? Or clear a path through limbs, vines or briars? I still can't believe that so many people actually take the SAK seriously as a usable cutting tool. Cutting bananas, peeling grapes, opening letters, maybe.

I could clean a fish with ZERO problems using a SAK. In fact, it's the next best thing to a filet knife.

I can clear a path through limbs also. The saws on the SAK's will outshine your baton cutting fixed blades.

I don't hunt "game" so I don't need it for that.

I use a fixed blade for larger needs but for daily use you just can't beat a SAK.

 

[jtb49er2000]

I could clean a fish with ZERO problems using a SAK. In fact, it's the next best thing to a filet knife.

I can clear a path through limbs also. The saws on the SAK's will outshine your baton cutting fixed blades.

I don't hunt "game" so I don't need it for that.

I use a fixed blade for larger needs but for daily use you just can't beat a SAK.

You're right on target Joe. I've carried numerous knives over the years in search for the "perfect" pocketknife. No matter what I tote or what my uses are, I always eventually end up coming back to Victorinox. It's been said repeatedly, but you just can't beat a SAK. This was a great thread to read and participate in - I love hearing opinions about SAK's!

 

[mr.vu]

Most of my tasks can be done by a SAK. This thread makes me want to go get one. But I will still always carry my big folder with me.

 

[Joe Dirt]

I used to carry around one handed folders with me clipped to my pocket. I found that I would only do just that "carry them". I wouldn't use them because I could do everything with my SAK. So now I just carry a couple SAK's.