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Andersonjoe711 · #1 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:45 am

This is an awesome knife!

Plus, it comes with a key ring!

mgo · #2 Post by **mgo** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:52 am

Andersonjoe711 wrote:This is an awesome knife!

Plus, it comes with a key ring!

Is that a knife in your pocket, or are you just really, REALLY glad to see me?

#3 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:03 am

Yeah, that looks really useful!

#4 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:30 am

I'd get the optional wheel kit and trailer tongue for it.

Phazer · #5 Post by **Phazer** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:43 am

I'm surprised there isn't a TP underneath all that.

andyP · #6 Post by **andyP** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:45 am

Andersonjoe711 wrote: Plus, it comes with a key ring!

Just 'cos it comes with a key ring isn't enough to persuade me to buy one

#7 Post by **jdhurst** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:49 am

Those things never stop growing. I have a Swiss Army knife that I purchased in Switzerland in 1998. It has a large blade, a small blade, a can-opener with a small flat blade (1/8"), a bottle-opener with a large flat blade (1/4"), a pick (Little used and I know not what for), a Number 2 philips (very, very useful), tweezers and the proverbial toothpick.

It is the smallest model I ever saw with all those features, and I carry it my pocket wherever I go. ... JDH

#8 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:20 am

tim wrote:I'd get the optional wheel kit and trailer tongue for it.

might not be to far off.

Website · #9 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:41 am

How the hell can you actually use that thing?!?

Trekk69 · #10 Post by **Trekk69** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:58 am

Crazy!!

ArtShapiro · #11 Post by **ArtShapiro** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:58 am

Gee, for $1400 you'd think it could come with at least a couple of Security Torx drivers.

Art, disappointed

#12 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:07 pm

jdhurst wrote:It is the smallest model I ever saw with all those features, and I carry it my pocket wherever I go. ... JDH

Except perhaps, past the security gates at the airport

. I had one of those giveaway Victorinox pocket knives that I forgot to leave in my car before attempting to enter a local amusement park (Paramount's Great America). With the zero-tolerance policy for any sharp objects, I was told that it had to stay behind. This was even before Sept. 11th.

ArtShapiro · #13 Post by **ArtShapiro** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:17 pm

I had the misfortune of having the airport security folks at SFX confiscate my 4-5-6 mm. Allen "Y" wrench that I kept in my waistpack for bicycle adjustments.

In fairness, I certainly look like the type of untrustworthy scalawag who might well disassemble a 757 airliner with his Allen wrench in flight. I'm sure they hold the wings on with 6 mm. bolts.

My Swiss army knife (direct from Switzerland) has survived for 30 years or so, including a 7 mile trip on the 101 freeway atop my car where I'd accidentally left it. I think we are intended to be partners for life.

Art

teetee · #14 Post by **teetee** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:22 pm

I like the one I bought in 2003. It is small but it has all the features I possibly wanted: a tiny scissors, flat-head driver with nail file, LED flash light, a ball pen, and a tiny knife.

I used to think about getting one with a built-in thumb drive. However I found that I don't really need it on my keyring several years later. I do have a thin, tiny 4gb usb drive in my wallet though.

#15 Post by **jdhurst** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:37 pm

rkawakami wrote:
jdhurst wrote:It is the smallest model I ever saw with all those features, and I carry it my pocket wherever I go. ... JDH
Except perhaps, past the security gates at the airport . I had one of those giveaway Victorinox pocket knives that I forgot to leave in my car before attempting to enter a local amusement park (Paramount's Great America). With the zero-tolerance policy for any sharp objects, I was told that it had to stay behind. This was even before Sept. 11th.

I stuff my knife, keys, coins and such like in my leather bag along with my computer. There is a screwdriver in there (tiny, multiblade screwdriver just right for TP screws). Even an IBM digital lline detector in the back along with network cables. There is always a first time, but they X-ray it and I carry on. No problems yet.

If flying overseas (not very often), I put the stuff above in a pouch in my checked luggage to prevent obvious problems.

By the way, the large blade is nearly 3" long, so it is not one of those tiny knives. And although I said I got it in 2005, I was wrong. It was in 1998 when on that particular vacation, so I have been carrying it around for a decade.

... JDH

There is always a first time, but I have

Miller88 · #16 Post by **Miller88** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:19 pm

I bet that can replace the 3 toolboxes I carry around in the trunk of my car!

#17 Post by **bill bolton** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:02 pm

tfflivemb2 wrote:How the hell can you actually use that thing?!?

You don't..... its entirely unusable in any practical sense!

It's a "trophy" product, intended primarily for promotional display purposes, but there are those who will buy it on a retail basis for it's collectability value.

Cheers,

Bill B.

#18 Post by **KristianJ** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:28 pm

Mick Dundee's famous saying now becomes slightly redundant for him...

Trekk69 · #19 Post by **Trekk69** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:20 am

ArtShapiro wrote: My Swiss army knife (direct from Switzerland) has survived for 30 years or so, including a 7 mile trip on the 101 freeway atop my car where I'd accidentally left it. I think we are intended to be partners for life.
Art

Ahhh....great story.
I got a SIGG waterbottle from Switzerland (the BPA plastics, Nalgenes, are no longer safe), at Christmas, and have been toting it around in my worldly travels since. Its gotten beat up, dropped, etc. but still here....its even made it on countless flights (they let you take waterbottles as long as there empty!

#20 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:52 am

I have a very small credit-card size version, the Victorinox SwissCard:
http://www.swissarmy.com/MultiTools/Pag ... duct=53927&
Mine is translucent dark blue.

dsigma6 · #21 Post by **dsigma6** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:27 am

You wouldn't even need to "use it." Just open everything up and toss it at someone.

NS · #22 Post by NS » Fri May 02, 2008 12:30 pm

dsigma6 wrote:You wouldn't even need to "use it." Just open everything up and toss it at someone.

Ouch!

haha..nice one..

dsigma6 · #23 Post by **dsigma6** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:57 pm

This knife made it on Gizmodo today...

http://gizmodo.com/386343/crazy-weird-s ... e-your-[censored]

mattbiernat · #24 Post by **mattbiernat** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:29 pm

rkawakami wrote:With the zero-tolerance policy for any sharp objects, I was told that it had to stay behind. This was even before Sept. 11th.

gotta love those "zero tolerance policies." so what happens if you show them extra sharp number 2 pencil? is the guy at the security check going to be like "sir, unfortunetly your pencil is sharpened too sharp, gotta give it up or stay behind!"

#25 Post by **Harryc** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:36 pm

I have a 40 year old Victorinox that I've had since I was a kid. It's still in excellent shape. Talk about an amazing warranty...last year the spring broke on the scissors, and I called Victorinox repair and they sent me an assortment of springs for free. Of course there's a lifetime warranty, but these folks went out of there way to get me these parts. They didn't even have a record of the model it is so old/rare, but I talked directly to an old timer in the repair shop and she knew exactly which model I had. Class operation.

ajkula66 · #26 Post by **ajkula66** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:10 am

mattbiernat wrote:

is the guy at the security check going to be like "sir, unfortunetly your pencil is sharpened too sharp, gotta give it up or stay behind!"

All jokes aside, I could see that happening...

NS · #27 Post by NS » Sat May 03, 2008 2:06 am

Harryc wrote:I have a 40 year old Victorinox that I've had since I was a kid. It's still in excellent shape. <snip>

Harry, can you post a picture for that.

That's antique.

Andersonjoe711 · #28 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:13 pm

I wonder if wenger sells a belt pouch for this thing too.

Andersonjoe711 · #29 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:18 pm

jdhurst wrote:I stuff my knife, keys, coins and such like in my leather bag along with my computer. No problems yet.
... JDH

Wha.....? Well then.. Lucky. I can't remember how many times they've taken my little swiss knives in airport security. What am I gonna do with a .5 in knife?
"Come here...I'll scratch you!"

Edit: Just thought of something. How different is airport security in Canada, than here in the US?

#30 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:58 pm

Andersonjoe711 wrote:<snip>
Edit: Just thought of something. How different is airport security in Canada, than here in the US?

I don't know (my flights don't take me to the US). I find if I empty my pockets so that the person alarm doesn't go off, I usually don't have any difficulty with the bag. Once or twice, they make me take out my laptop, turn it on to the point of the password prompt and let me through. ... JDH

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