Victorinox Alox Electrician question

hsherzfeld

hsherzfeld

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I’m considering getting a Victorinox Alox Electrician to alternate with my Pioneer for everyday carry, but I’m unsure about a few things.

First, I keep a lanyard attached to my Pioneer, and carry it with the lanyard handing out of my jeans pocket so I can simply pull the knife out by the lanyard. The Electrician doesn’t appear to have a key ring, so how do y’all carry your Electricians? Just bottom-of-the-pocket?

The Electrician’s main appeal to me (over the Pioneer) is the sheepsfoot “electrician” blade that it has instead of the can opener. It looks like a nice, beefy secondary blade. What I can’t tell from the images on Amazon, however, is whether the sheepsfoot blade has an edge bevel on both sides, or (as I suspect) just on the nail nick side. Can anyone tell me whether that is the case?
 
hsherzfeld hsherzfeld The small blade is beveled on both sides as you suspected. I like the Electrician precisely because it doesn't have the key ring. The key ring rips or wears pockets out unless you do as you do and carry perhaps vertically. It is a handy knife with two blades. I don't carry mine often, but it goes in the bottom of the pocket generally.
 
The Electrician is a tad too large for most watch pockets although that would be a reasonable carry approach if possible. Being larger, you could angle it into a watch pocket but I think you're more apt to loose it that way. As you know, it is the same size as the Tinker which is a knife I really like which has two blades as well.
 
I have 2 Pioneers, one with and one without the key ring. The one without gets used 3 times more. Rides in the bottom of my pocket.
 
22-rimfire said:
The Electrician is a tad too large for most watch pockets although that would be a reasonable carry approach if possible. Being larger, you could angle it into a watch pocket but I think you're more apt to loose it that way. As you know, it is the same size as the Tinker which is a knife I really like which has two blades as well.
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Yes, I've tried carrying Tinkers and Pioneers in jeans watch pockets, and it just didn't work. Since the temperature in Houston is averaging in the mid to high 90's, I've been wearing cargo shorts that have the bonus of a deeper watch pocket that is the perfect size for carrying either of the knives mentioned above. Unfortunately, the opening of the pocket is vertical (as opposed to the horizontal opening on jeans watch pockets), meaning that when I sit down or drive in my car, the knife slowly slides out of the pocket. I've started looping the lanyard of the knife over my belt so that the knife is still attached to me even if it falls out of the pocket.

With the Electrician (which I've just ordered), I guess I'll cary it in the main pocket.
 
Just picked one up myself. Photos of the blade in question. Also a shot with my black Pioneer.

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I carry my Electrician in the glove box of my car :)

I also love the secondary sheepsfoot blade. It's a great knife but for some reason I dislike carrying it in the pocket, so it replaced an old stockman as my in-vehicle option.
 
My electrician is a lfp constant companion,in its homemade slip.that way it does not slide out any where.Plus in a slip it stays noticeably cleaner
 
I recently got my hands on one of the old 84mm celidor Radio Shack Electrician models.

At first glance, the electrician blade looks chisel ground the whole way, but on closer inspection it turns out there's a small bevel on the other side of the straight portion of the edge. The wire stripping cutout is the only part that's actually chisel ground, while the rest of the edge has an asymmetrical grind.

Does anybody know the exact angle of this?
 
Guy McVer said:
Does anybody know the exact angle of this?
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I don’t know exactly, but I can confirm your observations on one with 100% factory grind on a vintage Promark 84mm.

My guess eyeballing it with a loupe from the end is that the total included angle is over 45°. Maybe say ~50°. Like a ‘typical’ 15°-20° on the left and a blunt 30°-35°+ on the right. I’d like to know exactly, myself, but I’m not going to test this one since the easiest way for me to do that is to sharpen it with a sharpie test and see.
 
Huh, I was told that it was single-bevel yesterday, guess not. Got my heart set on using the Floral sheepsfoot, those things are just wonderful. How can I ever talk about the Bantam if I carry a Floral? Ha.
 
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