The Bantam is a great SAK!

jackknife said:
.... I LOVE the combo tool! ....
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Me too. Other than 'nostalgia' on part of Victorinox, I don't see why they still make knives with seperate layers for can and bottle opening.
The combo tool is just as useful. I'd love to see Victorinox make a 'small bantam'. That would be just the small blade of a 91mm SAK and the combo tool in a roughly 70mm frame.
That would be SAK-perfection to me.
 
Fass said:
Me too. Other than 'nostalgia' on part of Victorinox, I don't see why they still make knives with seperate layers for can and bottle opening.
The combo tool is just as useful. I'd love to see Victorinox make a 'small bantam'. That would be just the small blade of a 91mm SAK and the combo tool in a roughly 70mm frame.
That would be SAK-perfection to me.
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After my fling with the executive, and really liking it a lot, I wish Victorinox would replace the silly orange peeler with a combo tool, and make the end of the nail file an SD tip like on the classic. Yes, a 70-74mm small bantam would be nice. Good for the 98% of what a pocket knife is used for. :thumbsup:
 
Fass said:
So the Executive is no longer your 'everyday/EDC' SAK?
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I do find myself fading back into the 58mm classic.

Most times I reach for my pocketknife its to cut something. POnce in a while I need to deal with small Phillips screws. Once in a while I need to trim something with the scissors. After two years with the executive, I noticed that most my cutting was done with the 'small' blade, thus 'saving' the larger blade for cleaner use like on food stuff. This got me to thinking, always a very dangerous thing, that if most my cutting was done with the small executive blade, and the SD nail file tip of the classic dealt with Phillips screws, and the 58mm scissors trims a broken nail or stray beard hairs just as well as the 74mm, then why do I need the bigger knife? The executive 'large' blade is only a tad longer than the classic, still too small to cut a sub sandwich or thick burger in half.

For over 20 years, my teaming up the classic with the Victorinox alox bantam, Cadet, or my little Victorinox florist knife worked great for me. The bantam gives me a food capable blade as well as the combo tool that I consider the best tool in the industry. The duo of the classic and bantam is one that I keep drifting back to again and again. Of late I have found myself leaving the executive in the drawer and putting the classic and its leather pouch sheath back on my keyring carabiner.

I guess I worshipped too long at the alter of Maximum Minimalism to go strait now. :oops:
 
jackknife said:
I do find myself fading back into the 58mm classic.

Most times I reach for my pocketknife its to cut something. POnce in a while I need to deal with small Phillips screws. Once in a while I need to trim something with the scissors. After two years with the executive, I noticed that most my cutting was done with the 'small' blade, thus 'saving' the larger blade for cleaner use like on food stuff. This got me to thinking, always a very dangerous thing, that if most my cutting was done with the small executive blade, and the SD nail file tip of the classic dealt with Phillips screws, and the 58mm scissors trims a broken nail or stray beard hairs just as well as the 74mm, then why do I need the bigger knife? The executive 'large' blade is only a tad longer than the classic, still too small to cut a sub sandwich or thick burger in half.

For over 20 years, my teaming up the classic with the Victorinox alox bantam, Cadet, or my little Victorinox florist knife worked great for me. The bantam gives me a food capable blade as well as the combo tool that I consider the best tool in the industry. The duo of the classic and bantam is one that I keep drifting back to again and again. Of late I have found myself leaving the executive in the drawer and putting the classic and its leather pouch sheath back on my keyring carabiner.

I guess I worshipped too long at the alter of Maximum Minimalism to go strait now. :oops:
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That's is not a bad thing. If it works, it works. And the 58mm, in particular the Classic and Rally, are just amazingly capable tools. That small blade, is really all you need (safe for food stuff).
 
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