What multitool or SAK did you buy today

[Guy McVer]

I recently got one of the old Schrade Century knives for cheap. These were Schrade's German manufactured Swiss army knife clones, made from the late 1980's all the way up until 1999 when they were discontinued. Supposedly some of the parts were actually made by Victorinox. The one I got was the Endeavor, model CN111. It's a single layer 91mm direct copy of the Victorinox Waiter, except it has a phillips screwdriver instead of a corkscrew.

Originally I had intended to replace the Century's scales with 91mm Victorinox scales, but I found conflicting information about this. I found one claim that the Victorinox scales will fit because they are compatible and exchangeable/interchangeable with the Century knife's scales. I also found another claim that the Victorinox scales won't fit because the Century's center pin is a different size and is located in a slightly different spot. I don't know what to believe and I'm not willing to risk ruining the scales by pulling them off to find out. If the center pin is an issue, then I suppose I could modify the Victorinox scales to make them fit, but then they won't be tight in the middle the way they should be.

Victorinox once made an 84mm knife called the Apprentice. It was the Waiter with a phillips. They also made an 84mm Electrician which was basically the same as the Apprentice except that it had the electrician blade instead of the combo bottle/can opener tool. I'd much rather have a couple of those to be honest.

It's apparently very simple to mod a Waiter into an Apprentice. I even have a spare backside phillips tool to do it with. I just don't have a brass pin to use as a replacement, and I don't have any experience with peening.

 

[Quiet]

It was necessary.

 

[Hashishiin]

Just a bit too rich for my blood, for a SAK, but man... that is gorgeous.
Saw the anniversary one you got too. That's dedication.

 

[Hashishiin]

In the last few days, I had a Vic binge... glad half was ebay used, and part of it is for cannibalization for parts of my perfect SAK (Described in my sig. You know a modder? Please help!) /learning to dissemble.

Let me think...
To continue my white trend, I got a few backup Moomins that you've already seen because they're flying fast and I don't know if they're gonna come back. They are my favorite scales. Got another Escort and a Camper.
Also, a white SD Classic and an Explorer, both from Teemu Jarvi, a Finnish artist. SD Classic is a Fox, and the Explorer is a Willow Grouse, the graphics very simialrly done to my Moomin knives, harder to wear than say, the special colorful SDs you see everywhere, or my Donut SAKs.

Speaking of Donut SAKs, did you know not only BladeHQ does their "Dessert Warrior" donut SD Classic? SMKW has their own donut pattern.... got an SD Classic for me, and a donut Tinker for my mother because she loves that pattern, could use a Tinker more than an SD Classic.

Finally got some Red SAKs, too! An Ecoline Grafting knife, to be cannibalized, a Floral, to maybe be cannibalized, but definitely used in the meantime, a Tinker Deluxe to see how worthwhile the SAK pliers are, and a Climber just because, also, an old-school "rostfrei" marking Huntsman! Scissors and saw, yes! Now just need to white-scalify it... Will post pics when all arrive, will have doubled my Vic collection!

Better to impulsively buy SAKs than Spydercos... I tell you hwat.

 

[Guy McVer]

I recently got one of the old Schrade Century knives for cheap.

The one I got was the Endeavor, model CN111. It's a single layer 91mm direct copy of the Victorinox Waiter, except it has a phillips screwdriver instead of a corkscrew.

Victorinox once made an 84mm knife called the Apprentice. It was the Waiter with a phillips. They also made an 84mm Electrician which was basically the same as the Apprentice except that it had the electrician blade instead of the combo bottle/can opener tool.

It's apparently very simple to mod a Waiter into an Apprentice. I even have a spare backside phillips tool to do it with. I just don't have a brass pin to use as a replacement, and I don't have any experience with peening.

I now have all 3 of these. The Apprentice was modded from a Waiter as described, and an 84mm celidor Electrician has now also been acquired.

I have obtained the holy trinity of discontinued midsize single layer phillips SAKs. There are no more worlds to conquer.

 

[kamakiri.knives]

There are no more worlds to conquer.

We’ll find you something new. Congratulations in the mean time.

 

[Hashishiin]

Here is what arrived today! Got the Donut Spartan for my mom's birthday, going to make her a leather carrying case so it does not get all scratched up, plus, some Rough Ryders! Loving the wharncliffe carbon steel trapper! Not to mention the Floral.

My collection is growing!


As for what I bought today, I found two really unique SAKs today, inspired by seeing WValtalkis post this Famivir genital herpes SAK, I kind of got a bug up on me about pharma SAKs... specifically, the most curious ones I could find. I wonder which companies all advertised back in the day, I wonder if there's old barbiturate Classic SDs from the 70s, or for other painkillers and such. Found some other funny ones, trying to convince a guy to part with a few specific SDs. I have always found this sort of weird-old-medical-history interesting.




I got this SD Classic Emergency, from what I understand, a rare model, because of the Wharncliffe emergency blade there instead of the pen blade, and I love Wharncliffes, I have a Floral and Grafter on the way, but I did not think I'd get to try one in the 58mm size! Absolutely stoked on this.


I found this Escort advertising Lortab brand hydrocodone, which is pretty out-there, but it is especially nice because it is just a clean white on the front, cross-side scale, to go with my "theme", and the advert on the back.
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I just got a Leatherman Wingman a couple days ago. Very impressed with it. I'd had an original basic Leatherman that I carried daily from 1994 til 2017 when I lost it. I kept hoping I'd find it again but alas that appears to not be in the cards. So I looked at the amazing number of models they now have these days (I had no idea they had so many!). I picked the Wingman as it's not too cluttered / bulky and has a great selection of tools I can see using.

I'm very happy with the quality and finish. In fact I dare say the finish on this one is nicer than my 1994 Leatherman. A very well made quality multi-tool that I'm very pleased with.

Sweet! The Wingman is under-rated red-headed stepchild of the Leatherman family. It was my first Leatherman, given to me at the start of my knife days here on the forum! I have since tried a bigger one, a Wave with S30V, and a smaller one, a P4 Squirt (my craftswoman fiance loves the tiny tools) but it is true, the Wingman is the Goldilocks for me, and honestly the tool-set is more useful for urban situations. I love the spring-loaded pliers, the package opener is SO good, please use it and save your knives from the tape and gunk. Also, you can MacGyver it into whatever you want. Feels so smooth, love the pocket-clip, love the way it is all set up. Not too heavy for pocket-carry like the Wave, which only goes on my belt if I carry that, but unless I specifically need it, I don't.

I switched it up now, and I put a SAK in my pocket, and carry a messenger bag that my Wingman lives in, along with other things that I think are very good or essential to carry, but are too much to be directly on my person, like flashlight, notebook, book, Opinel (too much pocket space! Best food knife!), first aid, empty Spyderco boxes... I did not want to choose between SAK and multitool, so I chose both, in a way.

Forever grateful GatorMedic I want you to know I still have that on me every day in my messenger bag, and it is my "go-to" for certain jobs! This tool has truly been good to me!

https://imgur.com/a/vOPVYNE

 

[kamakiri.knives]

and I love Wharncliffes

Not to fuel your addiction, but my favorite source for these are the teal Pepcid 58mm (not the white ones which don’t have the wharncliffe). Both have the older combo w/o the Phillips tip.

 

[Hashishiin]

Not to fuel your addiction, but my favorite source for these are the teal Pepcid 58mm (not the white ones which don’t have the wharncliffe). Both have the older combo w/o the Phillips tip.

As I have been saying here and there on the forums: Impulse buying SAKs is a darn sight better than impulse buying Spyderco sprints.... I have eight PM2s, my man. I went through a slight bit of craziness buying a ton of Spyderco from like Dec-Feb or so, a near addictive thing. And while this is similar, it is a LOT cheaper.

I messed up, though... I bought a Teal Pepcid Rover for 8.14.... promptly forgot about it.... and bought another, for 19.70
I cannot believe I just did that. Trying to see if he sent it yet, and if he did maybe get a return, switch for a Vic Baker, or a refund. Lol...

 

[kamakiri.knives]

I messed up, though... I bought a Teal Pepcid Rover for 8.14.... promptly forgot about it.... and bought another, for 19.70

Wish I could say I never mess up like that…but my pants would spontaneously combust.

 

[Hashishiin]

Wish I could say I never mess up like that…but my pants would spontaneously combust.

The guy did me a solid and took it back! So, in total, I have just the $7.50 Pepcid Rover, score, Lilly SD Classic, and plain Escort, all with the 58mm Wharncliffe emergency blade, Cardizem VIc Pharmacy, another rare score, Lortab Escort, Ecoline Grafter.... andddd a Climber, Huntsman and Super Tinker, just for fun/scale change practice/to try Victorinox pliers and see if they are worthwhile/see how many layers I want for my "Super-SAKs"!

Went a little nuts but that's alright! Well worth it. Glad to have the different blades, different 58mm models to mix and match.

 

[Danny Linguini]

Some day I’ll stop. Today is not that day. I’ve got two SAKs on my TV table, a Cadet and a Rambler. Together they should cover all of my TV-viewing emergencies and other living room knifely needs. So of course I got to thinking, surely there must be one knife that can handle that sizeable burden, and all that thinking pointed me to a Pioneer X. A little searching led me to this limited edition, directly from Vic. Cool looking color (that’s not a b&w photo, it’s thunder gray), so once again, I had to do it. The Rambler will likely stay on the TV table, cos it’s just too cute to put away. The Cadet will get promoted to home office duty, along side the folder du jour. I’m sure there’s a method to my madness; if anyone knows what it is, I’ll be glad to hear it.

 

[Hashishiin]

Danny Linguini with the SAK and OTF upgrade! Good work.

 

[Danny Linguini]

Just arrived. Never gotten a SAK packaged quite like this before. And wow, this is one solid little piece. I’m now rethinking assignments … this might take up residence in the home office, and the Cadet will stay on the TV table. It’s just too nice to keep among the transient junk orbiting around my collection of remotes and cheater glasses.

 

[Hashishiin]

Just got my Lortab Victorinox Princess in! I just discovered that this is a rare 58mm known as a Princess, and not an Escort, as it has a nail-cleaner tip instead of the screwdriver. The only thing I'm wondering about, is did someone do a scale-swap on a Princess, with Escort scales? Because the examples on SAKwiki and the description says "The scales are thin and strong because they are solid due to the lack of tweezers and toothpick" which mine most certainly has, so... what is the story there?

58mms are cool. I have a Pharmacist, Rambler, Emergency Escort, and Mini Champ coming to me as well, so the 58mm collection will be pretty rounded out, with a nice selection of scales for swappin, and different tools (though I guess the Mini Champ kind of does it all, huh?). Going to need to give this one some TLC jsut a little bit, but it's overall in quite good shape, nothing a little flitz, light BKF and oil will not fix.

Really glad this came in white, because my favorite SAK motif is white, and the green is nice as well, but the thing is, the cross-side scale is pure white, but the logo side is a faded cream-color, I learned that this is wear/light exposure, as I originally asked someone where they had got their "cream" SAK and they pretty much said "By buying a white and carrying it for 20 years!"

Is there any way to return the color back to cellidor? If not, that is okay.

 

[Danny Linguini]

Just arrived. Never gotten a SAK packaged quite like this before. And wow, this is one solid little piece. I’m now rethinking assignments … this might take up residence in the home office, and the Cadet will stay on the TV table. It’s just too nice to keep among the transient junk orbiting around my collection of remotes and cheater glasses.

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So now that I’ve got this guy and see what it is, I’ve decided to keep it in the box. It’s just too nice and more of a collectors item than I expected. I’ve got plenty of others to beat on around the house, this one I decided I want to keep pristine. Now I have to stop buying stuff I don’t need.

 

[Hashishiin]

Danny Linguini I would say "Hey, at least it's just SAKs, right?" but then I looked at which model it was, haha. That one is a little nicer than average, eh?
I know what you mean. I bought some doubles of my favorite Spyderco, VIctorinox and Cold Steels... I slowed down, for sure, but for the SAKs.

Victorinox is really wise to do those bronze pins on this alox and the "new Ecoline" or whatever you want to call the nylon-handle Victorinox knives, that are new. They look super clean. That one in particular.

 

[Lee D]

So now that I’ve got this guy and see what it is, I’ve decided to keep it in the box.

That’s what I did with mine. It’s in the top of the closet waiting to be passed down to a grandkid or someone else in the family who will appreciate it.

 

[Danny Linguini]

Danny Linguini I would say "Hey, at least it's just SAKs, right?" but then I looked at which model it was, haha. That one is a little nicer than average, eh?
I know what you mean. I bought some doubles of my favorite Spyderco, VIctorinox and Cold Steels... I slowed down, for sure, but for the SAKs.

Victorinox is really wise to do those bronze pins on this alox and the "new Ecoline" or whatever you want to call the nylon-handle Victorinox knives, that are new. They look super clean. That one in particular.

It absolutely is nicer than average. I’m sure it’s well up to the task to be used like any other SAK, but something about it is just too nice to use and abuse. Something about the thunder gray Alox almost looks jeweled.

That’s what I did with mine. It’s in the top of the closet waiting to be passed down to a grandkid or someone else in the family who will appreciate it.

Exactly what I’m thinking. Somebody’s gonna get this and an Ochs Worx Solarstorm in the same condition when I kick the bucket. And whatever else is left.

 

[Hashishiin]

Understandable. Funny story, accidently bid 1,200 on one of those instead of 12 dollars, the seller refused the cancellation even upon explanation that it was a mistake, haha. Contacted Ebay, and they said they'll strike the strike that normally occurs for not paying this dingus.