Yes indeed to Swiss army knives, I've closed the door on locking knives and get along fine. It would be nice if they added other blade shapes, i know they had the daypacker in a chisel ground clip point blade and the floral knife in a sheepsfoot, but to have multiple shapes would definitely raise interest, both dormant and active.
If I were to guess the very large MM sizes might be on their way out, too heavy for pocket carry, and heavy in general. Most people find the pinnacle of their required use in smaller mm sizes and models.
This!
For a number of of years now, my go-to SAk has been the 58mm classic. BUT...it is a bit too small for some things. Sometimes a dedicated blade for bigger cutting jobs is needed, and I've been experiment with the Victorinox florist knife. It's a different blade shape than the "normal" SAK, but I LOVE it! I've always had a very marked liking for the sheep foot blade, and in my younger "knife nut" days the stockman pattern was a favorite of mine. More often than not, I used the sheep foot blade as my do-all, saving the longer clip blade for food use of more slicing jobs.
The Vic florist knife makes a great EDC pocket knife and no lock is needed for real world use. I've had a few locking knives in my day, but I never fully trusted them. In my life I've seen two very bad accidents with knives where the root cause was the young owners trust in his locking knife not folding on him under hard use. In one case, the guy was told by the sheetmetal shop lead man to 'knock it off and go get the right tool." His reply was, "Its a Buck knife, it'll take it". Well, it didn't. Just after lunch a really blood chilling scream echoed down the hall and we heard it up at the machine shop, His Buck knife lock gave in and neatly amputated his right index finger at the middle joint.
Another case, I was having my left thumb worked on for a "Trigger finger" condition and on going to the doctor a few weeks later to have the stitches out, there was a young man in the waiting room with his hand bandaged up. He'd had one operation and was looking at a second, and while we were talking, it comes out he was getting his hand worked on to gain back full use after a "tacticool" folder closed up on him. Did serious damage to tendons and nerves.
If I think I need a knife that absolutely will not fold on me if I do something stupid with it, I'll use the real unfolding knife: a fixed blade.
It's been many years now since I backed away from the knife thing. All I've used are my SAK's and all my fingers are still there. I do have a Buck 102 woodsman for heavier duty and camping, but it only gets carried in the day pack. My SAk does all I need. But a different blade shape is nice now and then. I love the florist sheep foot.
