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ElCuchillo

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Hey guys, i tried this in another forum, and just wanted to see what type of a response I'd get here. We all read stories on here about how our dads or grandfathers or uncles used this knife or that knife all their lives. Peanuts, sodbusters, stockman, trappers, all it seems have been covered in a very nostalgic way except for SAKs? Does anyone have any family memories or stories about their fathers using a SAK?
 
Sure, my dad uses SAK almost exclusively. He carries a SwissChamp when he travels, an Executive or Farmer in the city and a 110mm Hunter I got for him in Switzerland when we are outdoors (he's now rotating it with a OHT I got him for father's day).

I've got lot's of childhood memories of that green Hunter SAK. My dad has always tried to take me on as many outdoors endeavours as possible, even today (I'm 25) we keep traveling around together on our horses.

It's hard to remember just one story, every time I see him use that knife memories of canoeing trips through the rainforests, fishing in Southern Patagonia, riding in the mountains near my grandad's farm, come rushing back.

He always keeps it shaving sharp, I remember one of our trips to the Andes, he was trying to teach me how to whittle something and he took a chunk out of his thumb with a swift, clean, cut. We were on foot, quite far from the nearest hospital so it was my first real chance to use our first aid kit (I was around 10 or 12) to patch him up so we could start making our way to the hospital where we hoped they'd be able to restore his thumb to its former one piece glory.

It took us a few hours of brisk walking, and a lift from a park ranger, but we got to the hospital in time. The doctors were amazed at the precision of the cut, and my dad was somewhat proud. He kept repeating "And that's why you don't cut towards yourself" everyday for almost a month after the accident.
 
I don't remember any particular stories, but I do know that for as long as I can remember my dad carried a little Vic Classic in his pocket to supplement the stockman he usually carried. Even though I say he used it to supplement the stockman, I'm almost positive that little Classic was the more used. He was constantly using it to open mail, or clean his nails or unscrew this or that. If I had to guess, I would say I saw that Classic in use 3 times for every 1 time I saw the stockman (fishing and camping trips excluded).
 
I think the little vic classic is the most produced pocket knife in the world. Victorinox makes 35million knives a year, and I recall about 9 million of them are the classic. Ike may have given out the two blade Case pen knife, but L.B.J. gave out tons of classics with the president seal on them. I remeber seeing a photo of one on the cover of one of the knife rags, that it was the most confiscated knife by the T.S.A.

I actually do carry one on my keyring on a lobster clasp, and its a very handy little tool. Its been part of an ongoing experiment on maximum minimalisim.

I don't know how it would do on the 'gator test, but SGT. Mike over at the "other" forum used one to dress a deer one time.
 
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