What stories you got from peoples that you given SAKs or knives?

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Iyonk

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several days ago a close friend of mine called... she said, "did you remember the little victorinox you gave me on my birthday?" (its a ruby signature)...

then she start to tell me how she always carry that in her purse and have been very2 usefull, but she called just for telling me something ordinary that little sak has done...
last weekend she help her friend wedding... to make the story short, many thing mest up since it isnt coordinated well... its a chinese wedding, so there's an important ceremony where the bride and groom got to cut a red ribbon as a simbol before entering the room... and then everyone realize, there are no scissor!... you guess right... to save the important moment and become a problem solver, she hand over the cute tinny little scissor on her red translucent 58mm victorinox... the color match the ribbon just fine, but every one seem to be in doubt how it would perform... the groom laugh.... and they start to cut the ribbon together, as we all know the scissor cut the ribbon super smooth... everyone complement how sharp the scissor and thank my friend since she had been super helpfull in many occasion on that wedding...

i smile so big while she was telling the story with excitement... she just want to say thank you for the gift... i said i just really glad the little victorinox serve her so well... i told her, just use it, if its dull, i'll sharpen it... if it broke or lost, i'll replace it with a new one... hehehehe...


another story come from my working partner's mom... she's 72 years old... i gave her a red classic and put it in her house keyring... when i visit her, she told me how usefull the little knife in her activity... she told me,there's an event where all the elders gather... when they want to lunch... everyone start to face a problem, the lunchboxes are tied up to well and they said, how to open these lunch packages?
then she come forward as a hero of the day and said, she can cut it since she's the only one who bring a small knife... everyone thank her and she thank me...

i told her its the same little knives that pope and dalai lama carry...
it amazed her... and i just glad how a small give could serve them so well...


i've got several other stories... but i'm sure it's gonna be typical with other stories...

any of you got some feedback stories from the SAKs or knives you gave to your close ones or friends?

thanks for sharing guys...


iyonk

ps:c'mon jackknife... i know you have several of interesting stories! hahaha
 
One and a half year ago, my eldest sister went from Germany to Australia for work.

I gave her and her fiancee an engraved Alox Cadet as a farewell-gift.

Three weeks later she called and gave me a heads up.
Guess what:
Her hole stuff was in one of these big overseas cargo-containers, on hold by customs.
(including all the powertools)
So they both used their "small Soldiers" to clean up and build their place.

Can-opener as scraper, bottle-opener as prybar...you name it.
It hold up extremly well she told me (and shes rough on tools) and after 6 weeks (!) when customs finally cleared their gear, the Cadet opened the boxes which hold the tool-set ;-)

Now shes pregnant in the 5th month.
It will be a boy. When he´s old enough he will get his own Cadet, which served his parents so well....
 
Woohoo! What a story! Anyone who lookdown on SAKs must be never hands on them! Thx for sharing buddy. I agree the cadets are the small soldiers!
 
Many years ago, when my granddaughter, who is a teenager now, was a 5 year old, my daughter took her to a birthday party over a friends house. Women have more courage than I do to ride herd on a bunch of 5 year olds. Not something for the faint of heart.

At this party, my daughter, Jessica, had to use her little classic to free a little kid from a bathroom.

Somehow the kid had went into the bathroom and locked the door. When she could not unlock it, she got a little hysterical at being trapped in there. The mothers were going to call the fire department because they couldn't figure out how to get into the bathroom. Jess told them to get a hold on themselves, and opened the SD nailfile blade on her classic. Since the screws holding the doorknob assembly were on her side of the door, she just unscrewed the two long phillips screws that held everything together and then used the nail file to reach in and move the latch mechanisism, unlocking the door.

Of course, all the other young mothers there thought Jess was a hero, and asked her how she knew what to do. Jess told them she was a daddys girl growing up and watched how to fix things in the house.
 
Hehehehe... what a handly little girl!... i know you're very proud of her and this story is also something you can share with proud!

so the SAK actually speak for themself...

when i say the saks i gave to others, they look in well used condition, which is good, since if they are not used and only occupied in a drawer it would be a pitty...

only my wife classic's is in prestine condition... why? since if she need a knife or scissor to cut something she just ask for the one in my pocket hehehehe...
 
I bought my girlfriend a pink alox classic SD a year ago, and she had used it for a while and then lost it. She would use it on anything she had that needed to be cut, any excuse, which i didn't expect. I figured she wanted it because it was "pretty". Anyways, she went to get it one day and couldn't find it in her purse. Months later we were cleaning out her car and i was cleaning under the passenger seat from the back and pulled out an ipod touch's case packaging and what was sitting in there? The pink classic. She got extremely excited and threw it in her pocket. So later on that week she put it on her key chain so she couldn't lose it and has been using it ever since.
 
No stories, less feedback. :confused:

Over time, I have gifted away many knives. Mostly, after a "thank you," nothing more is ever said. Those who have later referred to it at all include my wife, to whom decades ago I had given a SAK, something like a Climber model. She uses it still and has often declared that the scissors is her favorite toenail clipper, bar none. To a good friend I once gave a Micra more than 10 years ago. He still carries it on his keychain and every so often thanks me for it again, calls it the gift that keeps giving. I suspect his most used implement is the bottle opener, but it's still nice to hear he's happy with the little Leatherman. Another friend tells me the OH Trekker he got from (not so) Secret Santa has turned out his best camp knife ever, despite which he has misplaced and found it again several times. No word from anyone else.
 
znapschatz said:
No stories, less feedback. :confused:

Over time, I have gifted away many knives. Mostly, after a "thank you," nothing more is ever said. Those who have later referred to it at all include my wife, to whom decades ago I had given a SAK, something like a Climber model. She uses it still and has often declared that the scissors is her favorite toenail clipper, bar none. To a good friend I once gave a Micra more than 10 years ago. He still carries it on his keychain and every so often thanks me for it again, calls it the gift that keeps giving. I suspect his most used implement is the bottle opener, but it's still nice to hear he's happy with the little Leatherman. Another friend tells me the OH Trekker he got from (not so) Secret Santa has turned out his best camp knife ever, despite which he has misplaced and found it again several times. No word from anyone else.
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To be honest... thats actually the truth, since most of them dont say anything more other than thanks... but once in a while there're surprising stories about the gift...

when someday you got a great feedback stories, please dont hesitate to share buddy...
 
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