I want a SAK...

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kodiak

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....other than the soldier with the awsome soldier reamer! :grumpy: Is that to much to ask? Put it on every SAK and I think they would sell more models. Not that they have a problem selling them. I just went looking for a new EDC SAK, ended up with a Cybertool 29. EDC along with Leatherman Micra and Leatherman sideclip. Why can't they put a soldier reamer on it. I always feel like I'm missing something when I don't have that reamer. :(
 
What else do you require in a SAK? There aren't a lot of choices, but there are a few in the Pioneer series.

Paul
 
I like that electrician model a lot. The additional blade looks interesting.

I think the reamer is only found in the allox handled models like the Soldier or Farmer.
 
I have a Wenger that has all I ever wanted on it. I wanted a Victorinox at the time I bought this one but couldn't find one with the same tools on it so I went with the Wenger. I have never regretted it. It has been with me longer than anything else I've ever carried. I have carried it steady now since I got it in 1992 at an Eddie Bauer store.

It has a phillips head screw driver, a leather punch, a tooth pick and tweezers, a small slip joint plier with a light duty wire cutter that really works, a scissor with the great Wenger serrations, a locking main spear point blade, a bottle opener, and a can opener with flat head screw driver and wire stripper on it. I've come to really like the scissors over the vic because even at this age and amount of use they still cut. I used them last evening to cut up and expired ID card. I rather like the spring activation from the back spring now but didn't at first. That did take some getting used to as did the difference in the scissor size.

A while back I had a very good friend in Australia (Dirk Potgieter AKA OUPA) put his personal touch on my SAK with some custom fiddleback maple handle scales and install a shield on it to replace the original red scales that fell of years ago from dropping it and generally abusing it using it to repair dental carts and equipment that it was really too small to handle but managed to work miracles on. I can safely say this knife and my Vic Swiss tool are the two I never leave home without.
 
I can't agree with you more Kodiak. I have an old beat-up Soldier and the reamer is still going strong. It kept me entertained in high school by putting holes in everything. Desks, books, even pennies. It's too bad they don't put that reamer in their normal models. I'd gladly give up the never-used small blade on my Cybertool 29 for that reamer.

The reamer on the other models just plain sucks.
 
I also learned last night that the reamer on the Alox models makes the best Hotspark scrapper I've ever used.
 
sorry if this is a dumb question but don't all the sak have a reamer by the parcel hook?

btw i just ordered myself a vic atlas model to replace my huntsman that i've carried edc for almost 10 years :eek: i gave up the scissors for the pliers because all i used them for was cutting my finger nails :rolleyes:
 
I could have sworn they were on the tinker..The parcel hook+awl/reamer are on the mountaineer.

Do I have the right tool in mind here?
 
witchhunter said:
sorry if this is a dumb question but don't all the sak have a reamer by the parcel hook?
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Yes, but it sucks. My Cybertool 29 EDC has one, but it's nearly useless as a reamer. It'll put a hole in something, but it won't be even remotely round.
 
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