New Alox SAK hunter pro

[hunter55]

I have 2 Hunter Pros, one with the black polyamide handle and another in silver alox. Neither have any “up and down” play. If memory serves, that problem was very early on when the model was first released by Victorinox.

Thank you, appreciated your reply!

 

[hunter55]

Sorry, I don't have any more info. I never wound up getting one.

Thank you!

I have 2 Hunter Pros, one with the black polyamide handle and another in silver alox. Neither have any “up and down” play. If memory serves, that problem was very early on when the model was first released by Victorinox.

Thank you for the reply! very useful for me...

 

[VorpelSword]

How is it a Spyderco rebadged? Why do you doubt they Victorinox makes it?

Can you show me any Spyderco with an opening hole the same shape? Naw. Anyone who recognizes a Spydie hole should also recognize a non-Spydie hole. If it ain't a perfect circle it isn't the Spydie hole.

The knife looks fine, just not for the price. For $100 I need better steel, just on principle. At least for a plain looking, utilitarian blade. If there are fancy handle materials or a more unique design then I MIGHT consider the steel acceptable but not for alox scales and a generic design. Not bad, just generic.

I guess it looks like the same shaped hole if you squint.

Re doubting that its made by Victorinox: At my age, I have long ago lost any confidence in the integrity of international corporations.

 

[Quiet]

I am a knife idiot in many ways: How is this not a Spyderco knife rebadged?

Who actually makes these knives?

Wow. The ignorance needed in order to make this statement is sublime.

 

[Billy The Hungry]

Wow. The ignorance needed in order to make this statement is sublime.

He joined in 2007, and has over 300 posts. So he's only been a member here for 15 years.

Cut the man some slack, sheesh.

 

[VorpelSword]

Wow. The ignorance needed in order to make this statement is sublime.

Ignorance is, I think, a lack of knowledge.

Please reread the first line of my post where I acknowledge my ignorance and lack of sophistication regarding the topic of SAK.s

My skepticism comes from 70+ years of being misled or outright lied to by corporations and government.

Same sort of thing with compact pickup trucks in the 1980. Ford compacts were made by Mazda . . .at a time when Detroit and the country in general needed to be economically competing directly with Japan.

In recent years, we have seen Chinese knock offs of premium knife makers that are deceptively good in execution and marketed as the real thing. Recently, I was given a Spyderco that

And so, when someone shows me a knife that looks a little like an SAK, and a lot like a Spyderco I tend to think that it may actually be neither.

I am finding that as the years come and go, I fully understand the old guy sitting on his porch growling, "You kids get off my lawn!"

 

[Billy The Hungry]

Ignorance is, I think, a lack of knowledge.

Please reread the first line of my post where I acknowledge my ignorance and lack of sophistication regarding the topic of SAK.s

My skepticism comes from 70+ years of being misled or outright lied to by corporations and government.

Same sort of thing with compact pickup trucks in the 1980. Ford compacts were made by Mazda . . .at a time when Detroit and the country in general needed to be economically competing directly with Japan.

In recent years, we have seen Chinese knock offs of premium knife makers that are deceptively good in execution and marketed as the real thing. Recently, I was given a Spyderco that

And so, when someone shows me a knife that looks a little like an SAK, and a lot like a Spyderco I tend to think that it may actually be neither.

I am finding that as the years come and go, I fully understand the old guy sitting on his porch growling, "You kids get off my lawn!"

You're good, man. I'm just poking fun.

It's made by Victorinox, who is the maker of "Swiss Army Knives".

Victorinox uses good steel, but it's very soft. Not something you would probably want in a dedicated one hand opening folder. Although personally, I wouldn't mind it. I don't work in a warehouse anymore.

 

[VorpelSword]

Thanks. Sometimes being cranky means that I miss the fun.

 

[Quiet]

Ignorance is, I think, a lack of knowledge.

Please reread the first line of my post where I acknowledge my ignorance and lack of sophistication regarding the topic of SAK.s

My skepticism comes from 70+ years of being misled or outright lied to by corporations and government.

Same sort of thing with compact pickup trucks in the 1980. Ford compacts were made by Mazda . . .at a time when Detroit and the country in general needed to be economically competing directly with Japan.

In recent years, we have seen Chinese knock offs of premium knife makers that are deceptively good in execution and marketed as the real thing. Recently, I was given a Spyderco that

And so, when someone shows me a knife that looks a little like an SAK, and a lot like a Spyderco I tend to think that it may actually be neither.

I am finding that as the years come and go, I fully understand the old guy sitting on his porch growling, "You kids get off my lawn!"

I totally get that you'd be skeptical in general about some things. However, you're basically denigrating not one, but two institutional icons in the knife industry:

- Spyderco, run by an absolute saint of a man (and his son!) who have ALWAYS done right by their customers
- Victorinox, one of the most successful knife companies on the planet who has a history of selling quality products to people (and standing behind them) for over a century

So, these companies have earned the respect they're given on this forum. Secondly, the Hunter Pro is a knife design that was created by Victorinox, Spyderco wasn't involved. Just because a knife happens to have an opening hole in the blade doesn't mean that Spyderco was involved, or that the knife in question is a "rebadged" Spyderco. Insinuations otherwise are just ignorance, which hopefully I helped dispel for you here.