Victorinox and the "hook"

ABN · Feb 4, 2004

Hello:

I have a Victorinox Super Tinker and have been carrying it daily for about 10 years. In all that time, the only tool I have never used is referred to as the "hook." Is there any practical application for this tool? Am I ignorant of some critical function this "hook" provides (after all, it shows up on a lot of Victorinox knives)?

Open to enlightenment, -Alex

Don Luis · Feb 4, 2004

This has been mentioned before, typicaly use the knife as a handle to carry packages tied with string.

Some comments here:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=265385&highlight=SAK+hook

JD Mandrell · Feb 4, 2004

I love showing that tool to non-knife friends and having them try to guess what it's for.

So far only 1 who had spent alot of time in Europe knew right away.

Normark · Feb 4, 2004

Hey Guys..

Well it's time that they get rid of it,,and put a more useful tool in it's place..
I'd rather have an extra screwdriver that that hook...

ttyle

Eric...

Jazzman · Feb 4, 2004

I like the hook..if fact,it's one of the reasons that I bought a SAK Compact. The hook can be pretty useful.
Matt

Chambers · Feb 4, 2004

I just think it's cool. I love the hook for the oddness factor to it and I have used it as a package hook too. It's just neat.

JD Mandrell · Feb 4, 2004

It also works great as a way to lift the hot wire handles of some camp cookware.

WadeF · Feb 4, 2004

To bad I didn't have one of these back when I was a lad and my parents made me carry dozens of tied up bundles of newspaper out to the car for recycling. That damn string they used to tie them up was thin and always cut into my hands and I was to dumb or lazy to find a pair of gloves.

Since then I haven't come across anything tied up with a string that I could hook onto.

cockroachfarm · Feb 4, 2004

I always thought the hook was used to assist in tightening the crossed laces on hiking boots?

Ebbtide · Feb 5, 2004

Or ice skates...

peacefuljeffrey · Feb 5, 2004

Well, no, if you use it in either of those ways, you void the warranty.

---Jeffrey

ABN · Feb 5, 2004

Thanks for the information. I never would have guessed the uses for the hook that you all shared, but I am glad to know now what the original intent was.

Regards, -Alex

mwelch8404 · Feb 5, 2004

Originally posted by The Last Confederate
It also works great as a way to lift the hot wire handles of some camp cookware.

Yep.

Dijos · Feb 5, 2004

Originally posted by ABN
Thanks for the information. I never would have guessed the uses for the hook that you all shared, but I am glad to know now what the original intent was.

Regards, -Alex

Y'know, I just bought a climber yesterday, and it said on the packaging "package hook" and I still didn't know what it was...

T. Erdelyi · Feb 5, 2004

I knew what the hook was for, disemboweling your enemies

, or carrying string tied parcels.

JDBLADE · Feb 5, 2004

Such hooks on a number of european knives were for pulling the guts out of little birdies.

Phalanx7.62 · Feb 5, 2004

Sure 'coulda used it back when I worked on a farm, bailing hay. 80 pound bales tied with twine hurt my hands, thats for sure!

Now I am a computer tech supervisor. Hmmmm..

Out.

db · Feb 5, 2004

works pretty good pulling ice cold kotter keys in the winter.