Every time I plan to leave the house I look at the many knives sitting on top of my dresser and decide what to carry. Lately I have been trying to get different knives into the rotation but I always feel that I must carry my Vic Compact because something will come up. The Compact is my favorite SAK and probably my favorite knife overall.
Last month at my nephew's 1st birthday my sister needed Sterno cans popped open (like the top of a paint can) for the buffet trays and asked if I had a knife. I had my Compact with me so I pried open the cans with the combo tool.
I am not a wine drinker but I have a few bottles of wine in the fridge that were given to me as gifts months ago. A few weeks ago I was having spagetti for dinner so I said what the hell and opened up a bottle of red wine with the corkscrew on my Compact. It was actually the first wine bottle I had ever opened. I am mainly a beer drinker. Speaking of beer...
My boss gave me a Hickory Farms gift pack that had cheese and summer sausage, my co-worker gave me a case of Samuel Adams holiday brew. Once I got home I sat in front of the TV pulled out the Compact, popped open a beer and cut a few slices of sausage and cheese.
One of the production floor workstation PC's needed to be rebooted. The CPU was in a computer cabinet with a type of lock found on electrical panels that requires a big skeleton key. My co-worker said he would go look for a production mechanic or an IT tech with a key or screwdriver. I told him to wait a bit and I tried the combo tool. Popped right open.
My brother got a Mini Cooper radio control car for Christmas. The car was screwed on a cardboard insert in the box with a tiny phillips screw. I handed him the eyeglass screwdriver from the Compact and it did the job perfectly.
For Christmas I gave my mom a wall clock that has small 2"x3" and 2"x2" picture frames in place of the clock numbers. I have a digital camera and HP photo printer so I decided to print up some family photos and put them in the frames. My printer uses 4"x6" photo paper so once again I pulled out the Compact and used the scissors to trim the photos down to the right size. My sister saw me cutting photos with the SAK and told Mom I needed to borrow full size scissors. I said I didn't need to borrow full size scissors because the SAK scissors were perfect for what I was doing.
For New Years Eve I had dinner with my family and we had Martinelli's Sparkling Cider to celebrate. "Steve do you have your knife?" Out came the SAK, off came the bottle caps.
Don't get me wrong I love my assisted openers, lockbacks, liner locks, traditional pattern slipjoints, and tactical folders but the SAK is just so damn handy. I still carry a clipped locking folder in addition to my SAK but lately I'm not sure why. The SAK does everything a "regular" knife can do and then some.
Last month at my nephew's 1st birthday my sister needed Sterno cans popped open (like the top of a paint can) for the buffet trays and asked if I had a knife. I had my Compact with me so I pried open the cans with the combo tool.
I am not a wine drinker but I have a few bottles of wine in the fridge that were given to me as gifts months ago. A few weeks ago I was having spagetti for dinner so I said what the hell and opened up a bottle of red wine with the corkscrew on my Compact. It was actually the first wine bottle I had ever opened. I am mainly a beer drinker. Speaking of beer...
My boss gave me a Hickory Farms gift pack that had cheese and summer sausage, my co-worker gave me a case of Samuel Adams holiday brew. Once I got home I sat in front of the TV pulled out the Compact, popped open a beer and cut a few slices of sausage and cheese.
One of the production floor workstation PC's needed to be rebooted. The CPU was in a computer cabinet with a type of lock found on electrical panels that requires a big skeleton key. My co-worker said he would go look for a production mechanic or an IT tech with a key or screwdriver. I told him to wait a bit and I tried the combo tool. Popped right open.
My brother got a Mini Cooper radio control car for Christmas. The car was screwed on a cardboard insert in the box with a tiny phillips screw. I handed him the eyeglass screwdriver from the Compact and it did the job perfectly.
For Christmas I gave my mom a wall clock that has small 2"x3" and 2"x2" picture frames in place of the clock numbers. I have a digital camera and HP photo printer so I decided to print up some family photos and put them in the frames. My printer uses 4"x6" photo paper so once again I pulled out the Compact and used the scissors to trim the photos down to the right size. My sister saw me cutting photos with the SAK and told Mom I needed to borrow full size scissors. I said I didn't need to borrow full size scissors because the SAK scissors were perfect for what I was doing.
For New Years Eve I had dinner with my family and we had Martinelli's Sparkling Cider to celebrate. "Steve do you have your knife?" Out came the SAK, off came the bottle caps.
Don't get me wrong I love my assisted openers, lockbacks, liner locks, traditional pattern slipjoints, and tactical folders but the SAK is just so damn handy. I still carry a clipped locking folder in addition to my SAK but lately I'm not sure why. The SAK does everything a "regular" knife can do and then some.
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