I'm surpirsed more of you guys don't have

[Johnny_Z]

one of these .

Seems like just the sort of thing gadget-heads would love to have.

 

[samo]

Metal toothpick..

Sam

 

[kamkazmoto]

The one in my SAK works just fine

 

[Peter Atwood]

Does it fold or slide out or something? Can a hole be drilled to allow for keychain carry?

 

[Hotrod]

I'd be afraid of scraping the dentin/enamel off the tooth... but oh well!

"Paperclip"

 

[Illiya]

My Swiss army knives already have toothpicks.

 

[Don Luis]

At home I have some plastic ones with dental floss in the handle, I also have one of those pointy tools that dentists use, for EDC there´s the SAK, in a pinch you can always make one from wood or plastic using a sharp knife.

 

[mwerner]

My Swiss Army knife's toothpick is missing! Handy little tweezers, though.

I know I can order a new one, just havn't remembered to do it.

 

[grommit]

Being the paranoid type, I always wonder what is growing in the SAK handle with all that collected picked and partially processed food. Real hard to clean out. Wonder if this pick's sheath is easier to clean.

Good point about the steel wearing away the tooth enamel.. I wonder where tooth is on the Rockwell scale. I would want a pick to be at least 10 points below enamel, 20 being evern better.

As for twezers, I have found the SAK version to be rather inadequiate for almost everything I have ever tried to use them for, and rather inferior to the sliver grippers.

 

[Midget]

ugh.... that sounds painful...



on a side note, do you ever get your teeth shocked my aluminum? what causes that anyway?

 

[grommit]

If you have another metal in your mouth, meaning if you have either braces, fillings or other tooth appliances, you are basically building a chemical battery by introducing a different metal. Sort of like a potatoe clock. The voltage is around a volt or so, depending on the difference in the metals and the acidity of your saliva at themoment. Does not take much voltage to make a tooth tingle uncomfortably.

 

[cardimon]

Even if one did not use the steel toothpick for its ostensible purpose, it would still be a great conversation piece -- or ersatz lockpick.

 

[Manifest]

Why would you use a toothpick? Just use your knife

 

[cardimon]

Why would you use a toothpick? Just use your knife

Agreed. But not in front of the sheeple.

 

[Hotrod]

Why would you use a toothpick? Just use your knife

Fear of filleting my tongue!

 

[Daniel Koster]

No metal toothpick on me....

I do have my own metal straw though....

 

[TPU]

It would be really neat if someone made a toothpick made out of titanium.

 

[andymp]

I do have one.

Peter: You pull it out of the metal "sheath", turn it around, and stick it back in. Sort of like mounting a bayonette I guess. The sheath is longer than the toothpick so I drilled a hole for keychain carry. Works fine as long as you crimp the mouth of the sheath to tighten up retention a bit.