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bearthedog

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What do you guys use your SAKs for?

Blade for carving and shaving wood?
Saw for shelter poles/fire?
Awl for bushcraft use making holes?
Screwdrivers for headlamps and any other gadgets?

Post pics of SAks in use!

Some of mine
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OHT
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Wenger
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A good companion to the RC-3 by RAT cutlery
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Nice Trio
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Old pic, missing my OHT and OH fireman, a camo wenger, and I have a couple of alox ones on the way.
The big red one is an outrider.

The blue farmer is my edc, and the OHT or the outrider is in my trio, and the alox classic is on my keys. The wenger with the nail clippers is rather handy as well.
 
Right now i have an alox farmer an alox soldier, 2 super tinkers, and 2 ruck sacks way...The farmer stays in my woods bag, the supertinker is my edc, and the rucksack is my in the woods belt knife....I love victorinox products they build solid knives with functional steel....I like the outrider but it was a little thick the grip on the rucksack is a little easier for most chores, so when in the woods I keep the rucksack in a belt sheat and use the main blade for the majority of my cutting and food prep. and the long saw is nice too, as well as the awl and the can-opener. the supertinker stays in my pocket as always as scissors and a phillipshead are sometimes handy...
 
The silver one is a wenger soilder (wengers have a bail, vics have a key ring)
A blue alox farmer, below that a vic climber, which I gave to a buddy who hikes a lot and never had a real sak. (Go figure!) And finally the big old outrider.
 
My EDC SAK is a Ranger....I use it every day for alot of stuff, no pictures though.
 
Liam Ryan, when did Victorinox start putting a keyring on the Soldier? If they did, it was recently. Up till 1991 the Victorinox Soldier had a hollow rivet for security, much stronger than a keyring. After that, according to a lady I talked to at Victorinox in Switzerland, the Swiss Army dropped the hollow rivet for cost reasons (don't know why Wenger continued with the bail unless it didn't raise the cost over what the Swiss Army would pay). From then till ?, the Soldier has had no means of security. Are you sure, and do you have a Soldier with a keyring? ...and if so, what is the date on the main blade? All Soldiers have a date on the tang. Mine is "91" for 1991, and has the hollow rivet.
 
bruce said:
Liam Ryan, when did Victorinox start putting a keyring on the Soldier? If they did, it was recently. Up till 1991 the Victorinox Soldier had a hollow rivet for security, much stronger than a keyring. After that, according to a lady I talked to at Victorinox in Switzerland, the Swiss Army dropped the hollow rivet for cost reasons (don't know why Wenger continued with the bail unless it didn't raise the cost over what the Swiss Army would pay). From then till ?, the Soldier has had no means of security. Are you sure, and do you have a Soldier with a keyring? ...and if so, what is the date on the main blade? All Soldiers have a date on the tang. Mine is "91" for 1991, and has the hollow rivet.
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We just talked about this over on SOSAK. The official change was 93 and had to do with the Swiss Army switching rifles. The old style rifle used rifle grenades, the new style rifle could not handle the recoil so they switched to the underbarrel style grenade launcher. The bail on the knife was used to attach to a piece of string which was attached to the rifle, there was an angle guide at the attachment point on the rifle to set range. With the change in rifles the military decided that the bail was no longer required as part of the milspec on the knife. Vic decided to drop the bail as it was cheaper to make without it, Wenger decided to keep it.

Vic Soldiers do not have a lanyard ring, the Vic Pioneers do have a lanyard ring, aside from the lanyard ring, date stamp on the tang, and the engraving panel on the back they are the same knife. Some Pioneer (and Farmers and Electricians etc.) do have the date stamp on the tang but that is just Vic using up overproduction of Soldier blades (there were years when Vic made way to many blades and actually didn't make any the following year, I think 74 is such a year, SOSAK has a list somewhere), non-Soldier knives with dated blades are a bit on the rare and collectible side.
 
sunshaker, good to know, thanks!

Personally, I don't carry my "91" Soldier. Not because it isn't worthy but because it doesn't have all the tools I need. Therefore, I carry a Fieldmaster. I know the Alox series has beefier tools but that doesn't trump the fact that they don't have all the tools I need and use. Sure, a great knife would be an Alox Fieldmaster but if I need beefier tools, I just grab my "Jumpmaster".

Been carrying SAKs for 30 years, including my 23 years of Army service (1976 – 1999). I got my first in, you guessed it, SWITZERLAND, while I was posted to Stuttgart!
 
Yeah I guess I was thinking of the pioneer, same tools as the soldier. My wenger soldier is awesome, my brother borrowed it on me and lost it making out with his girlfriend on the couch, so he better grab it from her before they break up.:D
Bruce, I got a jumpmaster years ago, and gave it to my roommate after I got the OH fireman, I carried it everywhere. Those 111mm saks are pretty great.
Heck, all saks are pretty great!:)
 
It's a OH trekker with a curved belt cutter blade added, but for some reason the main blade is still serrated. I just ground them off with a dremel and a little file work.
 
bruce said:
sunshaker, good to know, thanks!

Personally, I don't carry my "91" Soldier. Not because it isn't worthy but because it doesn't have all the tools I need. Therefore, I carry a Fieldmaster. I know the Alox series has beefier tools but that doesn't trump the fact that they don't have all the tools I need and use. Sure, a great knife would be an Alox Fieldmaster but if I need beefier tools, I just grab my "Jumpmaster"....
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I had a used Huntsman I liked and saw the Fieldmaster, which has a Phillips driver vs. a corkscrew. I ordered up a Stayglow Fieldmaster the other day. I've pared down my SAK collection to a Stayglow Classic, the Fieldmaster, and a OH Trekker. I think a Signature Lite would make a great match with the Trekker.
 
Liam
Do you have any upclose pics of the OHT with the serrations ground off? I want to get this done.


DaleW
I don't think I have seem a Fieldmaster.
 
that is what has kept me from buying the OHT..I not a serrated fan,I thought I seen Wenger or Victorinox had an OHT PE version ,If so I would pick up a pair.
 
bearthedog said:
Liam
Do you have any upclose pics of the OHT with the serrations ground off? I want to get this done.


DaleW
I don't think I have seem a Fieldmaster.
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Now you have seen my new NukeSak, (Stayglow Fieldmaster)

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Basically like the Huntsman, but with a Phillips instead of a corkscrew. IMHO, this is the best collections of tools for woods use in the 91mm SAK's. You get larg ans small blades, a honkin' pair of scissors, the saw, an awl, and the usual flat blade screwdrivers, can and bottle openers, tweezers and toothpick. It has the package hook, which doesn't make me jump up and down, but if you are working with paracord and other small line, it can be used to pull knots and lashings up tight and you sure could haul bundled stuff with it.
 
I like it. I don't like the package hook or the second small blade. I can see where a small blade would come in handy in the towns when you don't want to draw attention with the larger blade. Is it available in red?
 
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