VIC Cellidor SAK Question

[yablanowitz]

Actually, I've never had a Cellidor scale crack or break on me. I just want the Plus scales for the added pen slot.
(I am loathe to admit I didn't get my first SAK, a Recruit, until 1975 or so. I lost or misplaced it 5 or 6 years later. )

Yes, my SAK's have been dropped on occasion onto hard surfaces, (concrete, paving bricks, and granite floor tiles) sometimes from more than waist and shoulder height.
Accidentally dropping it while working from scaffolding is one reason I use a lanyard (tho TBH I doubt I will be working from scaffolding again) that is long enough I don't need to remove the SAK (or Scout/Camp/ Demo knife, or pliers based multitool) from the lanyard to use it - even with my arm fully extended.

Oddly enough, I have had one break, almost the length of the scale, and guess what? It was one of the old solid scales that jackknife thinks so highly of.

We are NOT Victorinox's target market. All the sales to all the knife Knuts in the world amount to a drop in the bucket of their total sales. Why did the nylon scales go away? Easy. They weren't shiny. Shiny sells. Shiny handles, shiny blades, make them by the million and sell them to people who know nothing about knives. That's the business plan, and it had been working for them for a long time.

 

[Murphy Slaw]

Doesn’t gasoline melt those?

 

[afishhunter]

Doesn’t gasoline melt those?

The Cellidor?
I never had a Cellidor scale suffer harm when I was working around gasoline and diesel as a student, mechanic, or as a fabrication welding.
(We used gasoline to power the welders, and to thin the automotive paint just before into the paint guns. We worked outdoors rain or shine 100% of the time, so fumes/vapor was not an issue when painting the gravity dump scrap bins I fabricated, at the end of each workday.)

 

[Stelth]

I have nylon scales on all my 111mm SAKs. I think it's great.