India's army gets Victorinox 'fourth generation' SAKs

[mnblade]

Interesting story here about how India's army is supplying soldiers with a Victorinox SAK that is "the fourth generation pocket knife for army personnel, fire brigades, security and police forces."
The article says the knife is equipped with a special locking system for the blade and the screwdriver. It is lightweight yet extremely robust. The article also says, "the other interesting feature this knife was the use of a single hand by user while opening the blade."

There's not picture, though. Anyone know more about this knife?

 

[Richard]

Dont know for sure of course, but I suspect it is probably the One-Hand Trailmaster.

 

[sting7777]

yeah - its also called the "trekker" i think...

Trekker

 

[shootist16]

Too bad the blade is serrated. If they made one with plainedge I'd be all over it.

 

[mnblade]

>"I suspect it is probably the One-Hand Trailmaster."

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Ahh, of course! The locking screwdriver threw me. I didn't realize the Trailmaster had that.

Still doesn't make up for the damn serrations. I'm with shootist16 on that one: If they made one with plainedge I'd be all over it.

 

[vortex]

I wish it had a cork screw instead of the philips.

 

[Steven Andrews]

The normal Trailmaster (not the one handed version) has a plain edge.

The Rucksack is a Trailmaster with a corkscrew instead of the Phillips, although it has red scales.

One of the forumites here did this: One Handed, plain edge Trailmaster

 

[Suerte]

Originally posted by shootist16
Too bad the blade is serrated. If they made one with plainedge I'd be all over it.

I've always wondered how hard it would be to sharpen off the serrations since the SAK steel isn't the hardest stuff out there.

 

[Richard]

The serrations are pretty mild. I did not care much for them either, so when I sharpen the knife I do it on a stone like I would a plain edge. After a few times the serrations are a non-factor. You can see where they are, but for all practical purposes the blade is now plain.

 

[UnknownVT]

come on you guys
it was literally only a few days ago that Lavan in this thread -

What steel does Victorinox use?

told us he filed off the serrations on his One-Handed Trailmaster -
there's even a link to some photos.

 

[Lavan]

File, coarse whetstone, Sharpmaker.

http://www.tech-line.com/hockit/sak.JPG

And it's NOW my EDC.....supplanting my previously unsupplantable Spydie Native.




But I ....also....took a lil off the top of its beak too.