New SAKs

Swoop03

Swoop03

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Just wanted to share with yinz my evil bay score.
All for under 30$
One of the spartans is really tight on the small blade end, hence the sharpy "x" still works fine. And the one has a cracked handle. Everything else is perfect. Even picked up some toothpicks and tweezers because I figured some would could without it and I'm missing them out of my Swisschamp I got off the forum.
By the way what is the model name of the one with the nail file on the left? I did some browsing and I can't find an answer on it. I know the name I just can't seem to find it in my brain haha.
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The one with a nail file is definitely a Sportsman model.

Nice little collection you've got yourself there. Three different Spartan models?
 
Sportsman, got it :D Thanks guys.
Yes I got three spartans in the deal, sportsman, and a classic to add to my pile of classics :p. It was one of those lots and I couldn't really see what I was getting and for the price I didn't see a reason to pass it up. I feel one can never have too many SAKs. They're relatively cheap and reliable as anything, if you break one oh well. Get another. I think I'm up to 15 of them now. 10 different models probably. I don't recall exactly what I have. They're all in boxes, drawers, pockets, trucks, and every nook and cranny where I might need one if for some horrible thing happens and I don't have a knife on me.

Though I still can't find anything better than my compact. Well there is one knife that's better, the voyageur, not to be confused with the "voyager". Blade, can/bottle opener, scissors, alox handled. Long since retired and rare too. Been looking non stop since I discovered it's existence.
 
Nice grab! Its's twice the fun when they need some work, because you get to enjoy bringing them back :D
 
Thanks! I think I'm gonna use the already broke handle one as a utility knife. It'll spend it's days in my truck box and come out when I need a knife to scrape or whatever kind of abuse it'll see. They'll take more abuse than you'd think. I'm always amazed when I see a fubar'd sak. I beat the piss out of mine and they still look fairly new. Bending scraping prying twisting dropping even throwing and I've never had a blade break yet (knock on wood). I've yet to crack a handle as well. I've had people that are known to make us knife people cringe with the way they use their knives tell me I'm gonna break it doing that. Always holds up and when you destroy the edge it takes minutes to fix.

One thing that always makes me shake my head is the sharpening jobs on some of these used SAKs I've seen. Anything from file marks to burnt bench grinder edges.

The one red spartan had 1/8 chips in the small blade, three of them in the last 2/3 of it. I spend 10 minutes touching it up and I shaved my mustache with it. Cleaned it than gave it to my younger brother as his first SAK. He's not a knut like me but still appreciates a good knife.
 
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