Spirit One-Hander

[duckman1975]

Great Mod, Victorinox if you are looking at this thread this is a great idea! Potentially large market for OH opening blade spirit or swisstool 

[Sazabi]

Great Mod, Victorinox if you are looking at this thread this is a great idea! Potentially large market for OH opening blade spirit or swisstool 

Actually, OH opening knife blades on the Spirit would be further competition against the Wave/Surge/Charge models - many of whom prefer OHO blades....

Talk about tackling competition even further head-on.  Oh Vic....

[Neil]

That's awesome 

Very deserving of this ... 

[Freudian Frog]

*starts hunting for camo Leathermans to trade*

[Tom Munch]

Had to come back to see this.  Good show!

[prime77]

Great to see it finally done Bob.  Looks like a keeper for life.

[MultiMat]

Oh My Giddy Aunt Bob that OHO Spirit is effing 

Wow & wow then wow 

Golly & Gosh I like that 

Man alive that looks SO SWEET 

Boy oh Boy  .

I had not seen this before now 

Bob 

[J-sews]

Not to fret Mat, after all, I think you were just a wee lad back when I started this thread!

[SlackOne]

I would have had one of these as soon as they hit the market if Vic would just DO THEM FACTORY (I consider my Wave a complete compromise in favor of OHO.)  Man, that's awesome.  Great work!

Of course, Vic would do something goofy like put it over where the sheepsfoot is and make them serrated, to match the OHT even more

[jekostas]

Is pretty - very well done.  I'm in agreement with a lot of people in this thread - I wish Victorinox would have OHO on their pliers-based MTs.  I would probably consider purchasing them more if they were.

[DaveK]

Impressive work Bob (again)

[nuphoria]

I too am extremely impressed by this magnificent mod. Hurrah to Bob

[markn951]

Bob, would you mind terribly if I sent this thread to Victorinox? You see, I firmly believe you are a genius and I really really REALLY want to see this make it to production!  

[J-sews]

Well I'm certainly no genius Mark, and I'm fairly certain the Victorinox folks who monitor this site are already aware of it, but if you'd like to forward this thread to them you are more than welcome.

Let us know if you hear back!

[markn951]

Thank you for contacting Victorinox Swiss Army.
We have received your message and will be getting back to you shortly.

 
Thanks again!
Victorinox Swiss Army Customer Service

[MultiMat]

Well I'm certainly no genius

I  think if we were to do a poll, we could easily prove you are a genius Bob 

[J-sews]

 

[ICanFixThat]

 

OK lets have an Auction!      

You need to make one more.... with a round hole;  and might as well have it black-oxide coated so it matches the other tools on the BO Spirit-S.

Well Done  

[Andreas]

I really envy those of you (evil510 and J-sews in particular) who have the capability of making your own knife blades.... So many possibilities  

[J-sews]

OK lets have an Auction!      

You need to make one more.... with a round hole;  and might as well have it black-oxide coated so it matches the other tools on the BO Spirit-S.

The thumb hole was made to resemble the original OHT blade Francis. (Had I only known, I could have made it somewhat rounder to resemble the one in the current blade)

[markn951]

Dear Mark,


Thank you for contacting Victorinox Swiss Army.


Thank you for sharing this with us! It’s interesting to see how our consumer’s use our knives. We appreciate you taking the time to send this to us.


Please contact us if you need further assistance.


Sincerely,

Victorinox Swiss Army Customer Service
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On 2010/08/29 18:13:35   wrote:
Hey guys,

Keep up the excellent work.
Just wanted to share a thread over on Multiool.org with you.

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,1167.html

Have a nice day,
Mark Nakib

[thetopher]

That is one epic mod.     

[Benner]

Never congratulated you on this one Bob.  That is fantastic. 

[J-sews]

Thanks for the kind words gents

[J-sews]

Dear Mark,


Thank you for contacting Victorinox Swiss Army.


Thank you for sharing this with us! It’s interesting to see how our consumer’s use our knives. We appreciate you taking the time to send this to us.


Please contact us if you need further assistance.


Sincerely,

Victorinox Swiss Army Customer Service
=========== previous message(s) ===========
On 2010/08/29 18:13:35   wrote:
Hey guys,

Keep up the excellent work.
Just wanted to share a thread over on Multiool.org with you.

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,1167.html

Have a nice day,
Mark Nakib

That was pretty much the reply I thought you'd get Mark.   Good of you to give it a try though.

[MultiMat]

Thank you for sharing this with us! It’s interesting to see how our consumer’s use our knives.

WTF Victorinox  .

I wonder if I send Bob my Spirit if he would be kind enough to "use" my Spirit & send it back in a "used" condition.
With OHO blade of course 

[markn951]

Thank you for sharing this with us! It’s interesting to see how our consumer’s use our knives.

WTF Victorinox  .

I wonder if I send Bob my Spirit if he would be kind enough to "use" my Spirit & send it back in a "used" condition.
With OHO blade of course 

Exactly what I thought when I read the email. Kinda makes me think they didn't even look at the thread 

[DaveK]

Thank you for sharing this with us! It’s interesting to see how our consumer’s use our knives.

WTF Victorinox  .

I wonder if I send Bob my Spirit if he would be kind enough to "use" my Spirit & send it back in a "used" condition.
With OHO blade of course 

Exactly what I thought when I read the email. Kinda makes me think they didn't even look at the thread 

To be fair - they probably don't want to be seen to be condoning taking their tools apart - they went to a fair amount of trouble to make them tamper-proof.

If they know that there's a bunch of us all looking at this thread, they probably can't afford to look like they encourage it - dunno 

[ryan1835]

well they could at least say something positive about it followed by we do not recommend altering your tools as it will void the warranty

[MultiMat]

I wonder if the Victorinox person actually noticed/knew the Spirit was a mod  .They could well of just scanned the thread/pic without reading it 
Bob's job on the blade looks very OHO Vic like.

I reckon they would really up the ante with a OHO Spirit & SwissTool in their competition with Leatherman + about time they did a make over of their MT range. Vic