I guess I never have been enamored with SAKs

They work. They offer more functionality than just a plain old pocketknife sometimes. They're well built and inexpensive.

SAK's while not glamorous, are the standard of a utilitarian pocketknife.
 
i just want to add that the SAK is the only spring folder i ever owned whose spring didn't break over time. my old camillus and case did. the only serious wear/damage i had with a SAK was when the bottle opener was already loose and yielding (broken pivot or cracked spring?)

my advise to SAK owners is to use the bottle opener at most 4 times a day. :D
 
I've done a lot of international traveling to some rather primitive destinations--various islands of Tonga, Fiji and Belize (some almost deserted), Guatemala (Tikal), Peru (Machu Picchu; Saxahuaman) and the Yucatan (Chichen Itza; Uxmal), etc.--and my old Swiss Champ was in my backpack at every turn, along with a fistful of tie-wraps, some para-cord and a little duct tape. I can't remember how many times that little tool bailed me out of a jam. Everything from repairing a rusty old outboard motor, making a new suitcase handle, making a temporary pair of sandals out of an old tire and some rope, cleaning fish and making cooking sticks, cobbling together a belt to hold up my pants when the clasp broke or fixing a flat bicycle tire (well, removing the tire with the handle of the pliers and stuffing it with dried grass) while miles from nowhere. I love that thing, and I'll never travel without it.

Edit: Hey - check out the join date and the post count on this one. Synchronicity city!
 
I never really liked them...now i dont leave home without one.....very handy tool...................FES

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