One thing you've never used a Leatherman over a SAK for.

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KennyB

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So my sister came to visit from Seattle and bought me a very nice bottle of wine. On my last move I must have misplaced my cork screw, because I couldn't find it anywhere. At first I thought, "Well, I have a cheap dollar-store swiss army knife, i wonder if that would work." It in fact did not... Lucky i didn't lose the screw in the cork.

So what's a guy to do? This!

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Heh, I'm proud of my ingenuity, but I think I'm gonna buy a SAK... After all, why just buy a cork screw when I can get a knife and a cork screw.
 
buying SAKs is buying corkscrew... but you have knives and tools on them as some bonus hehehe... cool idea!
 
My wife uses one of my SAKS for the cork screw to open wine on a regular basis. I have to keep a SAK with a cork screw around just for that, but if it were me alone, I would not have that function on a SAK.
 
for almost 25 years of carrying SAK, i've never use the corkscrew to open a wine even a single time... but i like the corkscrew since i always put the small glasses screwdriver on it... it also might come handy if i want to loosen some notches or small rope.... but usually, i just cut it with the blade hehehe...
 
My Leatherman Juice Xe6 has a nice corkscrew with the assist to draw the cork out gently. The regular SAK corkscrews work fine also.

The first time I ever used one was the day I was walking home through the park. Three old guys had a bottle of wine but no way to open it and asked if I could help. Out came the SAK and their bottle was open! :)
 
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A SAK is a decent wine bottle opener. You can use the body of the SAK to lever the cork partway out of the bottle. I'm not strong enough to reliably muscle out the cork, so it's one of the things the SAK does better than the Spirit.
 
The corkscrew is indispensable in my book. I still carry the SAK that my wife and daughter gave me years ago. That one plus my previous old beat-up one has a corkscrew. Used them to open more wine bottles than I can remember. Been married 27 years..so that's alot of wine!! Great for the outdoors and picnics too!
 
i've been using my supertool 300 to pry open a crate and i would rarily do that again :)

never use the corkscrew of my SAK and the awl. basically because i didn't enjoy wines and i don't know what is the awl for.
 
The awl is for drilling/punching holes in things so you don't ruin a knife blade. It can make a nice clean hole even in tough plastic. I don't drink wine either but I have still used my corkscrew. I was with some people who bought some wine and sat down to enjoy it when they realized they couldn't get it open. Out came the SAK.
 
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