The SAK hook and other odd tools

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rossab

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Don't visit here often, but I saw the earlier thread about the SAK "utility hook", and was intrigued, since I couldn't figure out a use for it either. Some thought the hook might be useful carrying string-wrapped packages. Others used it to handle pots on a campfire.

Fair enough. Now, who has a use for the orange peeler, or (especially) the cuticle pusher? I can see how to use the peeler to section and then scrape the hide off an orange, but today's navel oranges are peeled easily enough by hand most of the time.

Cuticle pusher? Rid your fingernails of unsightly cuticles?
 
rossab said:
Don't visit here often, but I saw the earlier thread about the SAK "utility hook", and was intrigued, since I couldn't figure out a use for it either. Some thought the hook might be useful carrying string-wrapped packages. Others used it to handle pots on a campfire.

Fair enough. Now, who has a use for the orange peeler, or (especially) the cuticle pusher? I can see how to use the peeler to section and then scrape the hide off an orange, but today's navel oranges are peeled easily enough by hand most of the time.

Cuticle pusher? Rid your fingernails of unsightly cuticles?
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Whatever its designed purpose, I have used the hook for carrying paper bundles and straw bound with wire. Once I used it as an improvised hanger for a jacket (through the collar loop.) Occasionally, I hang my SAK by the hook to dry after hosing it down with WD 40.

The orange peeler is great, saving my under the nail from the sting of citrus juice. It's my favorite way to peel an orange. Sometimes I use the cuticle pusher for its self explanatory purpose, but more often to push or lift small things I don't want to touch with fingers and as a slotted screwdriver (try it, works on many medium sized screws.)
 
One of the things I love about the SAK (any SAK) is the almost infinite number of uses that come up for each tool. I've used the hook for pulling string through holes I drilled with the awl (don't try it with the little hole in the awl itself - if you're not a cussin' man, you will be if you try) and I've used the cuticle blade as a caulking blade. Works really well in that role.

I've also modified various parts & blades to fill other roles as well. If you mess something up, just order a new SAK . . .

thx - cpr
 
I agree with orca, the good news about saks is they are so cheap and abundant that you can really use one until it breaks, then just go buy another. The cuticle pusher? Glad I never bought that. I still just stick to the basic Farmers, Huntsmen, and OHTs. They've always served the needs that I have.
 
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