Victorinox SAK pliers - whoa!

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MG_Saldivar

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When I ordered my red alox Farmers from Amazon last week, I saw a Deluxe Tinker on sale so I pulled the trigger. My EDC SAK is a Super Tinker (large blade, small blade, scissors, "perpendicular" Philips, hook, awl, can opener, flathead). The Deluxe Tinker adds a pair of pliers, which, like SAK scissors, take up a whole layer (spring).

I ripped open the box today and, after drooling over the red alox Farmers for a while, I opened the Deluxe T and was amazed to see that the pliers and their spring are nearly twice as thick as 'normal' Vic SAK layers! This monster is technically four layers thick but it's really as thick as my five-layer Ranger.

I'm satisfied with my current EDC but the Deluxe T is an interesting conversation piece as well as a nice little tool. The pliers aren't exactly on par with my Surge or SwissTool in terms of size, but the quality is typical Vic and they seemed ideally sized for electronics and such.
 
I've used the pliers on my CyberTool 41 quite a bit. For small items they work very well. E.g., the connectors on coaxial cable.
 
Small as they are, they do come in handy.

They work pretty good as a fish hook remover if you are out at the lake without a model that has the hook remover already.
 
Yep. Looks like a blunt fork at the tip end of the scaler.

(I'll admit I have no idea how to use the thing - I'm used to removing hooks with pliers [multitool or otherwise] and my Mark I right paw ;))
 
Better than me, last time I forgot my pliers and had to cut a fishes mouth off with scissors. Not something I'm proud of. He sure fried up nice though.
 
MG_Saldivar said:
Yep. Looks like a blunt fork at the tip end of the scaler.

(I'll admit I have no idea how to use the thing
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The more correct term for them is hook disgorger, when a fish swallows a hook to deep for you to get it with our fingers, you put the forked end down into their mouth against the bottom curve of the hook, then push the hook down further until it backs out enough to come free.
 
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