My new EDC - SAK Farmer

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Used to EDC a traditional one blade slippie, I noticed that especeally in the countryside at least a saw would be usefull.
When I was a boy, the saw on my SAK was beside the blade the most used tool, so I wanted a new SAK, if possible a little bigger, just the tools I really need, elegant..... A SAK FARMER :D
Shure everybody knows the Farmer, it's a great slippie, a little bigger than the usual red SAKs, nice feeling in the hand with it's alox scales, good walk and talk, excellent workmanship!!! All the tools have exactly the same space in between, absolutely NO gaps - all in all a lot of great tools for a low price and guarranteed for life!!!

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I think with the farmer and a little bigger fixed blade and an axe you're perfectly equipped for the woods!!!

Even if normally I'm into traditional carbon steel slippies, this knife gives me a hugh problem.... I don't need any other! Good luck that I prefer a 8-9cm blade for EDC, so there is an excuse to carry both, the Farmer and my C.Lütters & CIE :)
 
I love the saw on my SAK Swiss Champ and have used it a lot in the past. The farmer looks like a nice, practical, easy to carry kit. The SC is a bit on the large side. Great, one more for the already too long want list.
 
Nice new EDC. The SAK I reach for for EDC is similar - the "Electrician."

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- that is when I am giving my current & semi-long-time favorite a break - a D2 Queen Winterbottom Canoe.
 
while neither of the above are quite as awsome as the ultimate edc, the case sodbuster, they are both very nice. You've just got to love the quality of the sak's. for the money they just can't be beat. later,ahgar
btw very nice fob on the farmer.
 
I carry the "Harvester" at work everyday. About like the ones in these posts, with the exception of the hawkbill pruning style blade in place of the electricians blade. Very very useful for a jillion situations. The saws are very aggressively toothed and cut quickly on soft wood and such. My knife gets used for everything from cleaning fingernails and scraping paint to sharpening pencils and opening cans. Only thing never used is the bottle opener. Nobody makes crimp on bottlecaps anymore. A can opener would have been more usable. Too bad you cannot order a custom SAK with the exact features you wanted in one.
 
I have a black handled Tinker that I carry quite frequently, especially when I need a versatile tool, as opposed to something pretty. SAK's really make you admit that whatever you're paying for in those $100 slipjoints it isn't engineering, fit and finish, or utility, because the $15 SAK rivals or beats them all.
 
longbeachguy said:
...SAK's really make you admit that whatever you're paying for in those $100 slipjoints it isn't engineering, fit and finish, or utility, because the $15 SAK rivals or beats them all.
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Shhhhh! Don't tell our wives.
 
Phil in Alabama said:
Only thing never used is the bottle opener. Nobody makes crimp on bottlecaps anymore.
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You need to buy you some of them fancy imported beers like my favorite, Pilsner Urquell!

Seriously, what you say is true in the U.S. But elsewhere crimp-on bottle caps are still pretty prevalent.
 
Virturally every micro brew (US, foreign, or my father-in-laws home made stuff have "real caps". Support your local small brewmeisters! :) It's the can opener that I use least - though sometimes it comes out to remove a stubborn FAL gas tube nut...
 
Not much of beer drinker type of guy. Never have used a corkscrew either. Used saws, reamers, screwdrivers, can openers, and knife blades plenty though! I haven't seen a crimp on bottle cap since I was in my 20's (too long ago!) I thought I was tough back then, and would impress folks (or it seemed like it at the time) by removing those crimp on beer bottle caps with my bare hands. Got ahold of one that had a bad sharp burr on it one night, got a nasty little slice on my palm and fingers, and failed to impress anyone. OH WELL! :p

Anybody ever see one of those Benchmade NRA Steigerwalt hunter folders? Looks like a drop point blade, a clip point blade, and something like the Victorinox combo tool.
 
The farmer is one of my personal favorites! I have one I keep in my car for those times when you never know you may need it!! And the best thing of all, is that ALL the blades are useful!!!
 
I gave myself a Farmer for Christmas last year and love it. I end up carrying it most days leaving my Spydercos, Benchmades, etc. at home. Or, if I carry them I also have the Farmer.

Raja
 
that's the funny thing about sak's, they get carried often while the "better" knives are left at home in the knife drawer. great knives, ahgar
 
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