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RARanney

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There is a "clamouring" on the Spyderco site for a Swiss Army Knife (not a bad idea at all). Do I have to say it? All right if you insist. The Swiss Army Balisong. PHMs sometimes have a bottle opener, so there you go. Ideas?--the military kiss factor should probably apply so as to retain "flippability". Go.

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Please take your seats gentlemen; oh, and flip 'em if you've got 'em.
 
Hmmm....

  • Put saw on blade spine.
  • Eliminate point of blade in favor of flat tip (to be used as a screwdriver).
  • Make the end of the latch into a phillips (+) screwdriver.
  • Handles can be used as a bottle opener (cut a groove along part of the handle spines - pinch bottle top with groove - leverage of handles makes removal easy).
  • Mark handles to be used as rulers.
  • Use metal scales on one of the handles, with some sort of quick-release attachment, and make the undersides files.

Methinks that is enough for now - I got some more ideas, but I can't think of a good way to explain them.

--JB

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Well,with all of the little tools such as the Leatherman (and all of the copies),there is a lot that can be done..it just depends on if you want everything to fold into the handles like the Leatherman.

Since some of the things wouldn't need to be at the very end of the handles,you can fit several things in the middle.An awl punch,a small hand drill and/or small corkscrew,a small & large phillips screwdriver,a small & large flathead screwdriver...can all go in the middle.A small bottle opener and can opener can fold out from the end,along with a small file/scaler/hook remover..several sizes & styles of blades..and whatever.
At least one handle should be marked for measuring,while the other could have something else on it.

But,this is if one would be done like a Leatherman,with everything folding *into* the handles.The handles would still have to be thick enough to handle the stress from using the different tools.


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*The* Lunatic Puppy
It wasn't me...It was my *good* twin..
My "inner puppy" made me do it..
 
oooh, that'd be 'spensive...
aleX.

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"i flip you... i flip you for real..."

"come and get one in the yarbles, if you've got any yarbles."
 
Chuck's pretty good with a Leatherman. Maybe we can get him to work up a routine on the Spydewrench.

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Please take your seats gentlemen; oh, and flip 'em if you've got 'em.
 
"One more time with feeling, why don't we just take it from the top."
 
RARanney I see you are quite obsessed with this. It's good to have passion. Me personally I spent months breaking in my LM Wave to get it to flip like a bali and now I have no problems with it. To be honest I'd just do that with the LM of your choice as it seems that all of them should do it over time (I don't think Chuck uses the Wave). Then they fly like you wouldn't believe.



And people like Gerbers because they are one handed openers.

Later
 
I keep meaning to try the Leatherman thing, a fine knife in it's own right, but for Spyderco collector's only a Spydie will do. It was Chuck's post in the "name the Tachyon contest", about the Martha Stewart balisong (to shorten the story) as well as the SAK post in the Spyderco Forum, that got me to thinking half seriously, half humorously about a utility balisong (SAB). Such a knife as a second generation Spyderbali might help to "defang" the unfair reputation of balisongs. One could be working in the yard or around the house and flipping between tasks. Obsession? Never...let's see now, wire strippers, pruners, the blade could pry up weeds, ahh pruning saw, small crescent wrench and then...:D ;)
 
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