It's an ILLNESS!

[luuqu]

I have recognized that swiss army knives are a disease and I am powerless to resist.

I started out with a Vic Classic--it was my first SAK ever and pretty useful I would have to say. A week later after researching the internet I added a Super Tinker. Wow . . . these things really help out in a pinch.

My fiancee raised an eyebrow but mostly shrugged off my new hobby.

The next couple of weeks, I read through newsgroup and forum, discovering dozens of new models. Curious how Victorinox would offer ALMOST all the tools I wanted on one tool; to get the file I would have to get another model which had some tools I didn't want . . . etc., etc.

I graduated to a Swisschamp (love it, can't live without, still looking all around the house for things to pull with the pliers . . . fiancee looking less and less happy).

I thought that after the Swisschamp I'd be done . . . I mean, who really needs more than that??

I was okay . . . for three weeks I held myself in check, battling the Swiss Army demons beckoning me to rejoin the ranks of the diseased . . .

So one day I was surfing the web and happened across a couple of ebay listings for swiss army knives . . . I resisted. I writhed in my chair, my hands started shaking . . . a couple hours later I woke up . . . saliva was drooling from the corner of my mouth. Apparently (this is what I told my fiancee), I had blacked out, but somewhere in the middle of it all I managed to buy TWO Swisschamp XLTs and a dozen cybertools.

Yes, it's all illness.

I propose a three step program:

1. Recognize that swiss army knives are an illness and that you are powerless to resist.

2. Buy every model imaginable.

3. Reap the consequences and read about everyone else's problems on BLADEFORUMS!!!!

 

[Dr sharp]

Ive heard that a nice sebenza helps with the cure. But then sebenzaitis might set in., and believe me brother you dont want to catch that..i was up to a sebenza a month and there is still no cure , but i sure do have some nice knives..lol

 

[Myakka]

Swiss Army knives are pretty cheap for such a good knife, or I also have a problem buying too many of them. Target always has such good deals on them I just cant afford not to buy one.

 

[Kickaha]

True, the cure is simple - just start looking at more expensive knives.

 

[kamkazmoto]

True, the cure is simple - just start looking at more expensive knives.

Ain't that the truth. Start with things like William Henry, then move on to sebenzas then to customs. Nice to know that so many are willing to help with your addiction isn't it.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

1) The Victorinox Ranger has a great selection of tools. I want a saw, file, and scissors, along with the usual, and the Ranger is the smallest knife I've found that has these three.

2) We have a Multi-tools & Multi-purpose Knives forum for those whose obsession needs feeding.

3) We have an expert on SAKs who goes by the user name UnknownVT. If you read his voluminous, overwhelming, informative posts on the SAK, you will never escape your fate.

4) You can find information on Wenger and Victorinox online, as well as at many of our fine dealers, or on The Knife Exchange forums.

5) You're in too deep already.