SAK scissors or saw?

Wow! This debate could actually become the sak version of those other standby knife/blade forum discussion Threads. You know like "Big knife vs. Hatchet" or "Carbon steel vs. Stainless" or even "Cold Steel vs. Busse (or either vs. everyone else) threads.At the least it will be equal to the old Philips vs. Corkscrew discussion.lol.
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Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated. I also have a Farmer, but honestly, the keyring makes gripping it uncomfortable when using the saw (as many have noted before). I suppose the saw on the 91 mm model is okay, but I view it mostly as a contingency tool. To be fair, that may be argued for the scissors too. Kudos to those who have both!:)
 
Ultraman said:
Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated. I also have a Farmer, but honestly, the keyring makes gripping it uncomfortable when using the saw (as many have noted before). I suppose the saw on the 91 mm model is okay, but I view it mostly as a contingency tool. To be fair, that may be argued for the scissors too. Kudos to those who have both!:)
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Nice. The Farmer is a great knife, i got mine about a week ago. I have saks with and without the keyring, do a side by comparison and you might find the ring is not as obtrusive as you first think. i think generally speaking its utility outweighs the slight loss in overall ergonomics.

As i said before i prefer scissors over saw for urban carry.
And really scissors can easily do detailed/complicated/precision cutting jobs that are difficult or near impossible to do with a regular knife blade.
For the outdoors though the SAK saw rocks! The SAK saw consistently amazes me with its sawing ability. And the 111mm SAK saws (like on the OH Trekker ,Rucksack, Outrider etc) are even better.
Overall IMO A four layer sak with both is just about ideal.
 
Scissors for me cuz I use them, and no saw cuz I don't!

When i was a kid it was the other way round - I'd use a saw for making forts and treehouses, plus having a saw was cooler when you're that age, and I there wasn't anything I'd want to do with scissors that I could'nt do with the blade. Now, tho, I use the scissors for cutting my nails, altho that's about it come to think of it, and I"ve realised that if a branch is small enough to cut with a sak saw, its small enough to break or hack through.

I now carry a vic pioneer - same as the soldier but with a keyring, thanks to which the knife didn't get lost a few weeks back when i was running up a hill(the question is, does the keyring get in the way of the rest of swiss recruits' gear or what? :) ) The observant will have noticed that the pioneer has neither scissors nor saw, so I've also got a champ, which does among many other tools, in my bag... a rather gordian way of getting rather the question of saw or scissors - i.e. neither or both!
 
The saw for me. I use it all the time to cut low hanging branches on trails. I honestly don't know what I'd use the scissors for.
 
ArchieCS said:
Scissors for me cuz I use them, and no saw cuz I don't!

When i was a kid it was the other way round - I'd use a saw for making forts and treehouses, plus having a saw was cooler when you're that age, and I there wasn't anything I'd want to do with scissors that I could'nt do with the blade. Now, tho, I use the scissors for cutting my nails, altho that's about it come to think of it, and I"ve realised that if a branch is small enough to cut with a sak saw, its small enough to break or hack through.

I now carry a vic pioneer - same as the soldier but with a keyring, thanks to which the knife didn't get lost a few weeks back when i was running up a hill(the question is, does the keyring get in the way of the rest of swiss recruits' gear or what? :) ) The observant will have noticed that the pioneer has neither scissors nor saw, so I've also got a champ, which does among many other tools, in my bag... a rather gordian way of getting rather the question of saw or scissors - i.e. neither or both!
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I see your point, but notching a fire board, wood working, etc., is easier with a saw. I like the Farmer.
 
ArchieCS said:
and I"ve realised that if a branch is small enough to cut with a sak saw, its small enough to break or hack through.
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That assumes one has a large blade or hatchet (besides the SAK) to hack with. If you are a day hiker lost in the woods you might not have the heavy hardware with you. The saw on my OH Trekker is 3 and 8/16 inches long that would be a pretty thick branch. Thicker than needed for a shelter or for firewood. And one can usually find enough deadfall and loose branches for fire purposes. Also as someone else mentioned above sometimes you need to saw a branch at an awkward angle or in an elevated position then the saw works better than a chopper.
When i'm in the woods i usualy have a hatchet or big knife with me (plus the SAK) but if i didn't i would make sure the SAK had a saw. Really i think its an urban/wilderness thing. Scissors in town saw in country or just have both to cover everything! lol.

Its also nice to know i'm not the only one who uses SAK scissors to cut their fingernails! lol!
 
If I'm carrying only one SAK, then it would have to have both!

The Huntsman Plus would be my choice of available models.
 
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