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Modding a Wenger
on: December 04, 2011, 10:29:51 PM
I just bought a Wenger Cyclist off of ebay. I was after a model with an universal wrench/inline phillips and saw this listed as a Wenger Bike  :D




I intend to turn it into something like the Wenger Deer but with a few alterations.





These are the layers I had in mind.

 - Blade / VIC combo tool / corkscrew
 - Scissors
 - Wood saw (I might drop this one)
 - Metal file/saw
 - Universal wrench / inline phillips / reamer

So basically a Wenger Deer without the opener layer and a combo tool instaid of the small clip point blade

The question are:

1.  Does anyone have a donor Wenger metal file/saw?   :D   (I have all the other tools listed so ...)
2.  How would a Vic combo fit in place of the Wenger nail file on a Wenger backspring?
3.  How would Vic 84mm scissors fit on a Wenger scissor backspring?
4.  Would I be able to put the Wrench/Phillips on the opener layer backspring to keep the reamer?
5.  Does the Cyclist have some special value as a discontinued SAK? I got it for $9 + S&H  and the scales show some wear, but I'm asking just in case.
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Modding a Wenger
Reply #1 on: December 04, 2011, 11:30:54 PM
I will have a look and see what I have. Also will check a few things for ya. I'll get back to ya.
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #2 on: December 05, 2011, 08:28:06 PM
No one has any experience with this?  :think:
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 10:17:33 PM
The Cyclist came a few days ago. I like it so far but I'm really missing the scissors.

To answer my own questions.

1.  Does anyone have a donor Wenger metal file/saw?   :D  STILL looking for one
2.  How would a Vic combo fit in place of the Wenger nail file on a Wenger backspring? - this will probably work
3.  How would Vic 84mm scissors fit on a Wenger scissor backspring? - might work, but I'll go with a standard Wenger scissors
4.  Would I be able to put the Wrench/Phillips on the opener layer backspring to keep the reamer? - Nope, - the Wrench/Phillips is a lot thicker than the opener layer, so I'll loose the reamer
5.  Does the Cyclist have some special value as a discontinued SAK? - well as the blade is damaged by very bad sharpening job, I think not.

It will be meeting Mr. Pillar Drill soon.  >:D
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #4 on: December 23, 2011, 04:46:34 PM
Rahmed has put a Wenger combotool into a Vic body before, so he might be able to answer compatibility questions in the other direction.
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #5 on: December 24, 2011, 04:04:43 AM
Make sure pictures to follow.
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #6 on: March 06, 2012, 08:29:36 PM
I'm new to the forum and did not want to start a new thread when this one kind of covers my needs. Hopefully someone will have an idea. I have no room or time at the moment to start modding on my own. I am looking for someone to mod this knife. I would like to turn it into a sort of Scientist. It has a locking blade and I have another knife for the donor scissors. I would like to swap out the opener layer for a combination wrench/inline phillips and the small blade for either a nail file or a combo tool. All extra parts are yours. If I need to get the other parts I can. Just let me know what knife to get. I would also like to put custom scales on it. Stag with nickel bolsters looks great. Any help would be great.

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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #7 on: March 06, 2012, 10:40:34 PM
Uups, I never did finish this thread.  :whistle:

Just to tidy up. Here are the pics.

I went with this layers:
  1. Knife - Vic combo tool - corkscrew
  2. Scissors
  3. Saw
  4. In-line phillips - universal wrench








A pic of it in my EDC setup.



And the PCB scales I later did for it.

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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #8 on: March 06, 2012, 10:54:17 PM
That is almost exactly what I am looking for. Just no saw. That looks awesome in the white.

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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #9 on: March 06, 2012, 11:02:01 PM
Quote from: nj2656 on March 06, 2012, 08:29:36 PM
I'm new to the forum and did not want to start a new thread when this one kind of covers my needs. Hopefully someone will have an idea. I have no room or time at the moment to start modding on my own. I am looking for someone to mod this knife. I would like to turn it into a sort of Scientist. It has a locking blade and I have another knife for the donor scissors. I would like to swap out the opener layer for a combination wrench/inline phillips and the small blade for either a nail file or a combo tool. All extra parts are yours. If I need to get the other parts I can. Just let me know what knife to get. I would also like to put custom scales on it. Stag with nickel bolsters looks great. Any help would be great.

Nathan, right? Welcome to the forum.   :MTO:

I made that SAK out of 3 different ones. A Wenger Handyman (blade, saw, scissors), Wenger Cyclist (universal wrench, in-line philips, corkscrew) and a Victorinox Bantam (combo tool-had to make the pivot hole larger). So the in-line phillips / wrench layer was from the Wenger Cyclist. It's the thinnest of the Wengers with the in-line screwdriver, but discontinued and not as easy to get to. You may find them used on ebay though. This are all of the Wengers that come with this phillips/wrench layer. There are others with the phillips but coupled with a shackle tool on the other side.

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Cyclist

Other versions with the in-line screwdriver are:

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Wenger+Nomad

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Deer

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Seafarer

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Tool+Chest

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Tool+Chest+Plus

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Motorist

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Matterhorn+Original

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Matterhorn+Plus

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Mountain+Bike

 
 Most of these are discontinued though and some are highly collectable.

I'd advise against using the Vic combo tool as it's too much work and there already is a perfectly good wenger combo tool to use, I didn't have one so I used what I had. Either the Wenger combo tool or the nail file will work good in the position of the small blade. It isn't a very difficult mod to do. you just have to find the parts.

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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #10 on: March 07, 2012, 12:41:36 AM
Thanks for the information.

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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #11 on: April 04, 2012, 10:24:08 PM
I went and re-modded this one. The thing that bugged me the most was that slight wobble of the corkscrew. As said before, I added the Vic combo tool instaid of the nail cleaner but the tang of the combo tool is slightly shorter and smaller than that of the nail cleaner. The blade and combo tool were ok, good snap and all, but the corkscrew was a bit loose, not as far as it would open up on it's own by all means, just had a bit of play when opened. Nothing serious, but if I'm making my own SAK, I'm making it right.

I thought first of getting a Wenger combo tool (found a cheap Picnic for that) but the more I thought about it, I realised I use the nail cleaner far more often than I do the can opener and bottle opener. And I can open a bottle with just about anything (ah, the misspent youth  >:D ). So I replaced the combo tool with the nail cleaner, only I didn't use the original that came with the Cyclist, but the one that has the nail file facing away from the knife blade.

And as long as I had the knife apart again, I opted to remove the saw too. Not much use for one in an urban environment, the target carry for this one.

All done, with perfect snap on ALL the tools.
I went back to the white scales, but will most likely make something out of oak for this one.



And I decided to put a bit of order to my spare parts section. I think it was buschidomosquito's idea, I like it a lot, no more digging through the box for a specific tool or backspring.



Edit: rotated a pic.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2012, 11:08:37 PM by enki_ck »
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #12 on: April 04, 2012, 11:00:42 PM
I like the mod a lot, good urban tool I'd say, plus the white scales are cool IMO. 8)  Also wondering if the croc-wrench works as a bottle opener?  ;)

The nail board of parts looks excellent as well, whoever thought of it. :cheers:
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Re: Modding a Wenger
Reply #13 on: April 04, 2012, 11:55:56 PM
Great SAK mod, nice combination of tools :tu:

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