The small knife. I knew it was coming.

[jackknife]

I checked the roll that I have and what I am actually referring to is jute as well. I thought that stuff was called twine in US English. My mistake. Whatever you call it, it's rope made from jute so we must be talking about the same stuff Carl. Anyhow, it's dirt cheap, very useful and makes for amazing fobs on 58mm SAK's.

Yeah, I call it jute twine. About the diameter of a shoe lace, and can be doubled up for more strength. Holds knots great, is bio degradable, makes good fire tinder, and is 'grippier' for lack of a better word. I really don't get the whole para cord cut worship thing. Paracord fobs, paracord bracelets, paracord lanyards, paracord idols for worship. Okay maybe not that far. I view it as just another EDC craze of the "cool" stuff.

Somehow, all those old sportsmen in the old days got by with a ball of twine. I remember watching my old man take about three times what was needed off the roll of twine, made a tripled up loop and twisted it so he had a long triple brained length of the stuff to tie up what he had to tie up. It worked just fine. I did the same thing and came back 5 months later and the end of the woodpile rack was still tied up and holding.

I think I have developed short patience for fads.

 

[Hickory n steel]

The classic never really strikes me as a pocket knife probably due to proportions, I have one on me more often than not but a small 2 blade slipjoint of similar size works best for me.

I'll use the even smaller coping secondary on my Buck 305's more than anything.

 

[jackknife]

The classic never really strikes me as a pocket knife probably due to proportions, I have one on me more often than not but a small 2 blade slipjoint of similar size works best for me.

I'll use the even smaller coping secondary on my Buck 305's more than anything.

Those were the 'normal' everyday pocket knife for generations of men up to the the 1960's and the Buck knife craze. Growing up in the 1950's, every man who had pants on, had a small jack or pen knife in those pants. All small pocket knives were called 'pen knife' by everyone. In those days packages came wrapped in heavy brown paper and tied up with white cotton twine or sealed up in that brown packing tape that was put on wet and dried like iron. If you didn't have a sharp knife on you, you weren't opening that package. Nowadays, we have the plastic blister package that defies tooth and nail. A small sharp knife in the pocket is a good thing.

And everybody carried a pencil. The cheap ball point pen era hadn't happened yet, and fountain pens leaked, so we just used a pencil. Pencils need to be sharpened now and then, so a small sharp "pen knife" was used.

!950's or the 2020's, in the real world of suburbia, not much more than an inch of blade is really needed.

Very nice knife, Hickory!

 

[Hickory n steel]

Those were the 'normal' everyday pocket knife for generations of men up to the the 1960's and the Buck knife craze. Growing up in the 1950's, every man who had pants on, had a small jack or pen knife in those pants. All small pocket knives were called 'pen knife' by everyone. In those days packages came wrapped in heavy brown paper and tied up with white cotton twine or sealed up in that brown packing tape that was put on wet and dried like iron. If you didn't have a sharp knife on you, you weren't opening that package. Nowadays, we have the plastic blister package that defies tooth and nail. A small sharp knife in the pocket is a good thing.

And everybody carried a pencil. The cheap ball point pen era hadn't happened yet, and fountain pens leaked, so we just used a pencil. Pencils need to be sharpened now and then, so a small sharp "pen knife" was used.

!950's or the 2020's, in the real world of suburbia, not much more than an inch of blade is really needed.

Very nice knife, Hickory!

I would agree.

I really like this knife, they were for some reason limited to 1998 even though the brown bone had been offered before.

I really hope the 305 returns soon, I gotta have more than just 2 versions.

 

[sodak]

While I'm really trying to look at the smaller ones, I'm still happy with the 91/93 mm SAKs. In my partial defense, I'm always carrying a Vic money clip, which is essentially a Classic. Kind of.

 

[Dendorric]

Last year and half a Cadet was my daily companion. Great knife with right tools (three srewdrivers in one handle!) especially after modification to Cadet X which added thickness to the right place - the handle, and taught me to appreciate versatility and usefulness of Victorinox scissors. Until then I tought they are pretty useless. What a mistake!

Few weeks back I rediscovered my old Classic that lived on my keyes for several years and was barely used. Well...scales are cracked and chipped after the free-fall right through the elevator shaft from the seventh floor but tools were almost unused and blade has never been sharpened. For a reason I don't fully understand (maybe my long term tendency to minimize stuff in my pockets finally reached the last step?) I shrapened that little blade and put the mighty Classic SD in my pocket. I swaped uniqe BerryX that cost me a small fortune for totally ordinary Classic SD! And I liked it! I liked how much room it lefts in my pocket and still can do practically everything I expect from my knife. After a week or so I started to realize what I don't like on Classic: the handle is too thin for me (I don't mind short handle, but It has to have some thickness) and who the hell put the keyring on the same end as a blade?!

That brought me to a Rambler. I was lucky enough to score absolutely unused pre 2008 (I'm not sure about the dating so it is just a guess based on tang stamp) Rambler on local knife forum for an amazing price. And this is it! The best little SAK for my needs there is! Still in my pocket totally unnoticed until it's needed, yet more comfortable in hand than Classic when there is something bigger that needs to be cut.

If you like Vic Classic try to give Rambler a shot and maybe you will be as suprised as me with this tiny toolbox (magnetized Philips screwdriver is amazing for toys disassembly and changing batteries wich I do a lot with my girls).