Swiss Army Alox?

Woodrow F Call said:
Love the Farmer.

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BTW, Jack, I really like that Bantam. I think they should bring that one back out. A good little beer knife. :D
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Well there ya go, Woodrow, making the under statement of the century. The alox bantam is a GREAT beer knife. In fact, you could say it would qualify as a precious!

But you're right, they need to bring it back!!!!

:D

Carl.
 
The Vic Electrician has temporarily displaced my trusty Small Texas Jack recently.



 
Came across this red Farmer yesterday, sitting unused in a pawn shop; brought it home with me - it is "snappier" than my plastic scaled SAK's. OH

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Lots of talk of Alox SAKs lately, might as well bring this thread back up :)
Alox SAKs are my favorites, really tough knives. I like all the colors they have been available in too (a lot more than I have examples of).

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Is that a sunset orange Cadet I see?

Edit - Doh, just noticed the key for scale! :D

Nice collection :)
 
I have several Vic Swiss Army knives, but almost all of them are 15+ years old and remind me of my youth. One in particular is a Vic Soldier dated '92 on the blade. It also has a hollow rivet instead of key ring. I didn't see many in this thread. Are they rare or just an undesirable model that most people choose not to collect?

Another interesting one is Red plastic Vic with a fully serrated main blade and (I think) a pen blade, cork screw, flat head, and can opener. Going off of memory. No idea what the name is.
 
SwissBianco has a long video discussing his collection. The rivent was apparently an adjunct of the rifle-grenade sighting system on one of their former service rifles. When rifles changed, no more use for the rivet. Wenger has a bail through them on some of their versions, but quickly went to solid rivets.
 
Wow - long running thread. It caught my eye because I've never owned an alox Victorinox, but I just gave a silver alox Cadet to my Dad. I liked the looks of it quite a bit over the "standard red", although we'll see how it holds up. Dad is a bad test - he isn't very nice to things.
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
That makes it an excellent test. Now you really should report back periodically on how it's doing. ;)
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Good point - I did ask that he use the screwdriver(s) on the Cadet, instead of the blade like usual. There's a reason I gave him a new knife.
 
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while celidor ones are still enough knives for most uses,alox gives more reliability for bit harder use
(i broke two celidor scales,so far there are only few invisible scratches on alox)
 
Over/under said:
I have several Vic Swiss Army knives, but almost all of them are 15+ years old and remind me of my youth. One in particular is a Vic Soldier dated '92 on the blade. It also has a hollow rivet instead of key ring. I didn't see many in this thread. Are they rare or just an undesirable model that most people choose not to collect?

Another interesting one is Red plastic Vic with a fully serrated main blade and (I think) a pen blade, cork screw, flat head, and can opener. Going off of memory. No idea what the name is.
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The hollow rivet was discontinued in '92.
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Some Red Alox. (sry for the recycled pix...haven't had time to shoot new ones)
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