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borgwarrior
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A companion for a lifetime. And more!
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June 15, 2012, 02:10:44 PM
Just saw a gallery on Vic's official facebook page, without any comments:
Small collection of SAK's, (but growing rapidly.
) not so fast at this time.
And the most important of all:
Ze Zuper Zoldier by Steve!
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June 15, 2012, 02:25:54 PM
that is kind of cool, also a bit horrifying
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June 15, 2012, 02:27:44 PM
Here's the story:
"Sometime ago, we received a very special present from one of our customers.
In 1954, this person purchased a pocket knife from us. He was an electrician living not very far from our Swiss office in canton Schwyz. And for more than 20 years, he had his Victorinox knife with him in his pocket at all times.
He used his pocket knife nearly every single day to help him with his daily tasks.
Throughout the years, it became his loyal companion as he could always count on it, no matter how big or small the task at hand was.
Day after day, the pocket knife shared his life, and inherited the marks of time and intense work on it as true proof of our engagement as a reliable and qualitative brand.
It never let him down.
One day and after several years of good service, our electrician retired from his job.
He looked back on his professional life with great memories and thankful for this amazing tool that he carried with him at all times.
In order to express his gratitude to our brand, he decided to offer his precious pocket knife to us as a witness of our brand commitment to produce the best qualitative pocket tools in the world.
We felt very proud to receive such a generous gift and to have the certitude once again that our company values and products are perceived as such. We truly are a Companion for life."
Small collection of SAK's, (but growing rapidly.
) not so fast at this time.
And the most important of all:
Ze Zuper Zoldier by Steve!
Wishlist for 2014: Rangergrip 88, Victorinox: CT41, Spirit X BO CC, Swisstool X BO, Some limited Alox stuffs and so on
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June 15, 2012, 02:57:36 PM
Wow, that's pretty amazing. I would have never guessed the Alox would look like that after that many years. It's got a certain historical beauty to it.
I don't know that I could last that long. Somewhere at the point where I damaged the blade I might have bought another one. Maybe it served as a reminder though to make sure the power was off? or it served him some purpose?
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June 15, 2012, 03:01:06 PM
Ya thats pretty cool for sure. I hope they sent him awesome something back as a thankyou too!
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June 15, 2012, 03:14:49 PM
Looks like he blew it up cutting a live cable then attacked it with a grinder
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June 15, 2012, 03:43:58 PM
It's
to see knives that have led a full and active life, the wear on those scales is far more than I thought would happen
It's also a bit
when you see some damage/abuse/mishaps like the shorting out on the blade
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June 15, 2012, 04:25:09 PM
1954 ? As far as I know, this model was not made before 1960.
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June 15, 2012, 04:36:11 PM
Both the Elinox line and the alox Pioneer started in 1957...
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June 15, 2012, 05:27:07 PM
That leaves only one conclusion.... Time travel must have been involved.
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June 15, 2012, 06:22:31 PM
Quote from: sawman on June 15, 2012, 05:27:07 PM
That leaves only one conclusion.... Time travel must have been involved.
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June 15, 2012, 06:27:23 PM
Someone should ask him if he happened to see a flying Delorian that day?
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June 15, 2012, 07:09:26 PM
Yes, the Alox line started in 1957, but this model with the newer style awl started in 1960/61.
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June 15, 2012, 08:18:28 PM
1) NEVER let facts get in the way of a good story.
2) The original owner may have simply misremembered.
I got a SOG Crosscut in the 90s, and can't for the life of me remember even within a few years of when. My guess is 95'-97' or thereabouts, but I really don't know. And that was only 15-17 years ago.
The owner of this pocket knife might have also had another one similar to this that he's confusing with this one, which he DID have earlier. Who's to say?
In any event, yeah, this knife was a daily carry. It looks like whoever owned it got their money's worth of work from it. besides the damage to the blade, it also has that olde-tyme thinning of the blade from a zillion resharpenings, or looks like it to me.
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June 15, 2012, 11:28:03 PM
Quote from: sawman on June 15, 2012, 05:27:07 PM
That leaves only one conclusion.... Time travel must have been involved.
hmmm, seems a reasonable conclusion to me, from the looks of things he must have used the blade to harness the lightning bolt to charge the flux capacitor. He must have astounded SAK collectors from 1957 with the futuristic newer style non-cut-out awl and slightly deeper red anodized scales.
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June 16, 2012, 01:19:54 AM
That's fabulous!
It does look like it had a shock to that blade though - I have an old bread knife here somewhere which cut through a live cable with me on the other end of it.... looks a little like that!
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June 16, 2012, 02:57:51 AM
With my EDC Executive I cut thru an extension cord w/o unplugging it (my wife had hit it with the mower) - zapped an arc-shaped gap on the sharp of the blade - decided to make some more arcs with a roto-tool for a half-serrated blade. Less good at opening mail now...
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