Would you want a Spyderco/Benchmade TACTICAL SAK?

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What if a quality company known for its tactical folders like Spyderco or Benchmade was to come out with a "tactical" SAK? The two reasons I don't carry a SAK are mystery steel and the ever-present corkscrew (which I used one once, and it broke!) What if there was a medium sized SAK with:
1. Black and Grippy G-10 scales with a pocket clip.
2. A 3" drop point blade that had a thumbstud and opened easily with one hand. This blade would be 154cm or something, and have a lockback lock (or maybe Benchmade could work an axis lock in there somehow... hmm)
3. The tools you normaly use on a SAK: screwdriver, can opener, awl... NO CORKSCREW, the beer bottle was invented decades ago, effectivly eliminating the need for emergency wine bottle opening!
4. A heavy duty pair of scissors that actually cut.
5. One of the nice saws that they put on the higher end SAK's.
6. A 30 lumen LED flashlight, but they would have to embed it in the handle with a button on the side, and easly replaceable AA battery, none of this flimsy fold out hearing aid battery lights buisiness.
7. The fit and finish you'd expect from an American based company, and a cool tactical name to go along with it like the Super Assult Knife or S.A.K.! ok, that was bad, but someone would come up with something!

So would you buy one, what else does it need (aside from a flippn' corkscrew, why do you guys keep wanting to put that in there), and what would you call your Tactical SAK?
 
Maybe I'm crazy but I use the corkscrew a lot. And not to open bottles. Now the reamer/sowing awl, that can go.
 
I'd be just fine with the Victorinox One-Hand Trekker, though I would love the following changes:

Full Plain Edge - get rid of the serrations at the end of the blade.
154CM/ATS-34 Steel - current steel has been fine, but WTF I'm wishing here.
Micarta Handle Scales - again, just wishing.
Pocket Clip.
 
I agree on the Corkscrew that is worthless in todays world. The Reamer/punch might come in handy when camping. The bottle opener is handy sometimes. The can opener for me is handy 90% of the time when Traveling. I think a lot depends on where you live. I have heard the bottle opener is used a lot on Mexican Beer in the Southwest. I am hoping for further input here.
 
I would LOVE a quality Spyderco SAK. Maybe like a small dyad with both blades + spydersaw + a few other items that I use every day. Hell, I'd take a dyad with a decent light in it and call it godly. I can open a bottle with the top of the spyderhole anyway.
 
I don't see the market,

Most buyers seem to buy them because of the low price. Start adding quality, more expensive steels, better locks, and such, the price goes beyond the market maximum point (which I see as around $30 - beyond that the market seems to like the plier type tools).

Just an opinion, of course.
 
It wouldn't interest me much. The SAK is fine the way it is, except for maybe the file.

The steel may not be anything mind blowing, but it does happen to be INCREDIBLY stainless, and brain-dead simple to sharpen. That is a huge deal for me.

Also, I have tried a SAK with a pocket clip. It was too darned heavy to be worth the bother. My pocket practically collapsed under the weight.

As for the corkscrew….. My corkscrew happens to hold one of the most important tools on my SAK; the eyeglass screwdriver.

The fit and finish you'd expect from an American based company
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That scares me more than anything. Victorinox has some of the best fit and finish of any knife company out there. Most American companies would fall flat on their bum if they had to make all of those tools fit well. Leatherman still hasn't figured it out yet, and they've been trying for many years.

I did want better scales on my SAKs, so I just made my own out of micarta.

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Leatherman has their folders, one has a 154CM blade, 6 bits, can opener, bottle opener, carabiner, and a pocket clip. A saw and a light would be nice, maybe they'll add stuff like that to a later model.
 
No. I like SAKs as they are, "Mystery Steel" included (Which you can find out the contents easily be searching the forums).

The steel as stated is difficult to corrode at all, can take a razor edge with a 10 second strop on any reasonably hard surface and is pretty tough stuff all around. There are plenty of models without a corkscrew, which I find useless too and stay away from. I think the cellidor, alox and nylon scale offerings are all plenty good enough, and they're easy to replace with self-crafted scales out of wood, micarta, G10 etc anyways. The scissors cut fine, though I never need scissors if I have a knife. They already offer locking models, even though I've never found myself at odds with a slipjoint. Out of curiosity, what tasks do you use your knife for that demands a lock?
 
michaelmcgo said:
6. A 30 lumen LED flashlight, but they would have to embed it in the handle with a button on the side, and easly replaceable AA battery, none of this flimsy fold out hearing aid battery lights buisiness.
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An AA battery???!!!
 
I would love a SAK with more emphisis on the blade. I EDC a 3-4" blade and a tactical flashlight (if you havn't started buying flashlights yet, your lucky, they can be just as bad as knives). If I could combine these two, plus some tools for prying and opening things and an classic SAK blade as well, because I agree with the advantages of a softer steel blade, I would have the perfect light. I think someone who succesfully integrates a bright flashlight (this can be done off of a single AA with a luxeon LED) will hit the jackpot, at least with me! I need three things coverd: Cutting, Prying, and Shinning.
 
With the AA and the luxeon AND the photon management system, your knife is gonna be REALLY thick.
Stick with high power 5mms
 
pogo said:
...the Corkscrew that is worthless in todays world.
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Hundreds of millions of wine drinkers - myself included - would disagree with that sweeping statement.

michaelmcgo said:
The fit and finish you'd expect from an American based company
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The QC, fit and finish on SAKs is legendary.

michaelmcgo said:
NO CORKSCREW, the beer bottle was invented decades ago, effectivly eliminating the need for emergency wine bottle opening!
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Your meaning escapes me. Will your "Mall Ninja SAK" have a tool that turns beer into wine?

There is an SAK to suit every conceivable need, or - if there isn't one - there soon will be. :D

maximus otter
 
Someone may have already mentioned this, but Spyderco did make a multitool, the Spyderench, or spyderwrench, or something...never used one, but always seemed cool to me.
 
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