SAK Surgery? I want a frankenSAK!

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I was given a Victorinox Swissflame for Christmas. For those of you not famliar with the knife it's a large(but not Swisschamp large) SAK with a torch lighter in the body of the knife. The same size as my Victorinox Ranger.

I noticed that Wenger has a SAK with a cigar cutter.

I wonder if it would be possible to take apart the swissflame and add the cigar cutter blade? Would this destroy the scales(Victorinox makes a dark green scale the same size for my Ranger that I would love to have on the Swissflame anyway)

Is it possible to have a FrankenSAK?
 
I wouldn't try it.

The framework of SAKs are sheet steel and is held together with pins. When you try to put them back together, and things aren't lined up correctly, you'll bend the sheet steel, and you're pretty screwed after that (first hand experience :D ). Unless your good at shrinking/stretching sheet metal.
 
I'm not sure if it is appropriate to direct you to another forum but on the SOSAK forum on knifeforums.com, there are several current and near current threads regarding the disassembly and reassembly of SAKs.
 
Frank, thanks for the tip, but I'm having a little trouble finding the SOSAK forum. Which category is it in and does it go by another name?
 
Making a frankensak by ripping apart some Victorinoxes to make a new one is one thing, trying to throw some Wenger into the mix would probably be mostly impossible.
 
Amator said:
Frank, thanks for the tip, but I'm having a little trouble finding the SOSAK forum. Which category is it in and does it go by another name?
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Nope, it's SOSAK... but until you're registered for it, you won't see it. The first "S" stand for "Secret", doncha know! ;)

Post a message in the forum "THE SECRET ORDER OF THE SAK" telling why you want to join. Basically, explain how much you like Swiss Army Knives (SAKs), how you'd like to learn more about them, how to fix and modify them, etc. In a day or two, you'll get an email telling you you're in. Plenty of threads on modding, those guys know SAKs better than the guys at the factories that make 'em, and spend their evenings mixing and matching parts for fun. GRATE folks there. :D

As for your idea, Wenger and Vic use different pin sizes; Wenger's are a tad smaller. So you'd need to ream out the pin hole on the cigar cutter, at the very least. Then you'll prolly have to modify the kick to match the Vic backspring... but then that tool is BIG... lemme put it this way, it would be MAJOR surgery, even by SOSAK standards! :eek:
 
I've disassembled SAKs but never mixed Vic with Wenger, I believe that it would be very hard to do because of different size, different placing of pins, etc. In general when you move a tool you move it with its corresponding spring and I doubt that the Wenger spring will fit in the Vic, to use a Vic spring on a Wenger tool would likely require modification even assuming that you find one of proper width. As Gryffin says major surgery, I would not try it myself.

By the way, I smoke cigars daily and do not like the scissors type cutter, either a plug cutter or just a simple sharp knife (to make a "V" cut) is what I use.

In case you are interested Davidoff sells a knife similar to Vic's Classic with a cigar cutter blade, three sizes of plug cutter in one blade, it's expensive though.

Luis
 
Last Confederate, Griffin, thanks for the info on SOSAK. I've registered there and submitted my plea for admittance(same user name). Appreciate the advice.

Don Luis, thanks for the info about the Davidoff, I'll look into that. I know that the cigar cutter on the Wenger isn't all that great, but dammit, the whole point of a SAK is having all the tools you need to do something in the knife. ;)
 
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