I love Swiss Army Knives but their advertising is pretty funny

[eisman]

This is a display in the German Army Technical Museum.

 

[91bravo]

And because of this thread, I have to order a new knife now. The black onyx Ranger. Thanks a lot Mk-211 , you just cost me more money on another knife that I don’t need!

 

[mrknife]

is that the same man? i dont think hes ever held a pair of pliers in his life

 

[mrknife]

Who, Victornox? Ha! This ad is so good, it's actually been chronologically retroactive and they've been selling me SAKs for like, 30 years!

its a solid product! as les stroud said in a survivorman episode, its better to have an sak than nothing.

 

[jbmonkey]

its a solid product! as les stroud said in a survivorman episode, its better to have an sak than nothing.

I actually prefer my sak to bunch of other multitools I have.

 

[jbmonkey]

And it smells

just like Dan's hand too......

 

[brownshoe]

My SAK has rescued many who brought wine but not a corkscrew.

 

[mrknife]

I actually prefer my sak to bunch of other multitools I have.

o yeah for many years a camo sak tinker was my carry as a teenager. then i goofed the main blade sharpening

 

[sv4]

RangerGrip has a really nice 4" wood saw . Very effective on smaller diameter and for scoring to break larger pieces .


But , the way too clean male model in the ad , has a leering expression , that says he's thinking mostly about sharing some "fat wood" with Miss Red Shoes .

I have one of the old green Wenger Rangergrips. The saw blade on this model is awesome

 

[sv4]

If only he had a screwdriver…View attachment 2818458

Amazing. Talk about using the wrong tool for the wrong job..

 

[Mk-211]

Amazing. Talk about using the wrong tool for the wrong job..

A real man would've just snapped that over his knee!

Damn hipsters! Ooh, let me make a big production out of it...

 

[norcalAF]

My SAK has rescued many who brought wine but not a corkscrew.

Literally the main reason why I have a Spartan in every vehicle

 

[brownshoe]

Literally the main reason why I have a Spartan in every vehicle

My SAK has also rescued those who forgot their bottle opener for the beer

 

[Mk-211]

My SAK has also rescued those who forgot their bottle opener for the beer

Did you use your teeth, to protect the sak?

 

[edgelion]

My SAK has rescued many who brought wine but not a corkscrew.

My SAK has also rescued those who forgot their bottle opener for the beer

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

[norcalAF]

Did you use your teeth, to protect the sak?

Protip, you can use another sealed bottle to pop the top off the others, then you just bust the edge of your buddy's countertop to open the last one

 

[Alberta Ed]

Real Men knock the neck of the bottle off against something hard, like their heads. Real Real Men swallow the shards while ordinary Real Men spit them out.

 

[brownshoe]

Did you use your teeth, to protect the sak?

Nah, I’m like that woman in the blues song “gap-toothed”

 

[John A. Larsen]

Just got my April 2025 issue of BLADE Magazine yesterday, and there is a full page, color add for Victorinox on the back page, maybe by SMKW. A man making a feather stick using a Evoke BS Alox Folding knife, which I am not familiar with. I did recognize the man, he has a You Tube Channel, "TA Outdoors" and lives in England. His videos are pretty good, although he suffers the same problems all the English bushcrafters do, in that England is small, and heavily populated. Quick check and England has about 51,000 square miles, and a population of just over 57 million. Take Wyoming, which has a size of over 97,000 square miles and a population of only 587,618. In England pretty hard to get far from a road, in Wyoming in some places it is hard to find a road. John
PS The "Title" of the add is "Prepared To Go Off The Beaten Track", again kind of hard to do in England. John

 

[Quiet]

Protip, you can use another sealed bottle to pop the top off the others, then you just bust the edge of your buddy's countertop to open the last one

I'm not saying that I've been that guy who chewed the edge of somebody's Corian countertop all up when opening beers while at a houseparty I was a plus one to....however I'm also not not saying that either.