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What did you use your Sak on today?

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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11070 on: December 02, 2025, 01:28:09 PM
Oh, I love it. It feels so much better built than any of the other multi tools.
But I like to cut my nails pretty short and a day or two after that I find it hard to open the tools on it. Then they grow tiny bit and it really helps.

I have one and also a couple of Spirits.  For general carry I like the Spirits a little bit more, but there is also something reassuring about the solid mass of the the classic SwissTool!  A great big lump of fine Swiss engineering.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11071 on: December 03, 2025, 02:00:15 PM
Can openers on my Tinker and Skipper to open cans for lunch and dinner.
I knew my wife was a keeper when she transitioned from calling it a knife thingy to a multi-tool.

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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11072 on: December 05, 2025, 02:04:34 AM
Today I used the Spirit's saw to cut back some Palmetto fronds.  I didn't get pictures. :oops:


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11073 on: December 05, 2025, 04:23:56 PM
Today I used my Classic SD to trim a broken thumbnail. tom.  :climber:
Thig crioch air an t-saoghal ach mairidh gaol agus ceòl The world will come to an end but music and love will endure


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11074 on: December 12, 2025, 11:23:45 PM
I used my Sportsman to slice open a package from Amazon  :climber:
Carry a Victorinox SAK folks,  because you dont know what life is about to throw at you.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11075 on: December 14, 2025, 04:41:12 AM
I used the awl on my Tinker to get a wrapper off a container of iced coffee to put in the recycling container.
I knew my wife was a keeper when she transitioned from calling it a knife thingy to a multi-tool.

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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11076 on: December 18, 2025, 11:54:19 PM
Cut open the packaging for a couple small steaks for dinner tonight.



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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11077 on: December 19, 2025, 12:01:03 AM
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11078 on: December 23, 2025, 09:43:14 PM
Pioneer cut the edges off of the banana leaves to make tamales. We use my wife's family "recipe," Costa Rican style. There's no written recipe; you learn it by making your hands useful in the kitchen. A full day's work, but sooo with it.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11079 on: December 23, 2025, 10:13:56 PM
I thought I should add a couple more pictures. If you're used to Mexican tamales these might look a little strange. In Costa Rica they add more to a tamal, and each family uses their own special combination of ingredients. My wife's father is responsible for the addition of olives in ours. He was Bolivian so, in his honor, she always makes a batch of llajwa. It's a green salsa from Bolivia and is absolutely delicious.

Costa Ricans tie the tamals in pairs, and each pair is called a piña.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11080 on: December 23, 2025, 11:51:16 PM
I'm very used to Mexican tamales, so it was cool to see a variation on that theme! :tu:
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11081 on: December 25, 2025, 06:16:47 PM
Used the blades on my Tinker to open up toy packaging for my nephew at dinner last night.
I knew my wife was a keeper when she transitioned from calling it a knife thingy to a multi-tool.

I might be crazy but it's kept me from going insane- Waylon Jennings


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11082 on: December 25, 2025, 06:25:10 PM
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Opening kids' toys is the best use of a SAK!


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11083 on: December 25, 2025, 06:54:28 PM
Needed the sak to cut the tape on a few gifts, then the plastic tag holders on a few pet toys,,
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11084 on: January 15, 2026, 02:43:43 PM
My daughter used the tweezers from my kitchen-drawer-Champion to collect stick insect eggs :)
You should seriously visit vicfan.com. All the hoopy froods are doing it.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11085 on: January 15, 2026, 07:40:33 PM
Treated my wife to sous vide beef cheeks this evening. 58 degrees Celsius for 24 hours. Then quickly in a hot pan with butter.



Victorinox used to puncture the vacuum sealed bag - to make sauce of the marinade.



It was worth the wait...




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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11086 on: January 15, 2026, 11:17:06 PM
 :drool:
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11087 on: January 16, 2026, 11:13:53 AM
:drool:
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Can't wait to have the interwebs version with scent and flavour.

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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11088 on: January 24, 2026, 03:58:43 PM


Pryin’


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11089 on: January 27, 2026, 12:13:44 PM


Scraping, chiselling, digging.

Without an opener layer on my SAK I’m just a shadow of myself.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11090 on: January 27, 2026, 06:21:44 PM
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11091 on: January 28, 2026, 02:52:36 AM
Cement... I used it on cement. Or rather, the cement used itself on the Workchamp. I've had this thing one week :facepalm: I feel like had it fallen on any other part it would have been fine. It still works fine though; I used a prybar to bend the frame back and then filed it down with my Swisschamp and it's pretty much back to its original working state.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11092 on: January 28, 2026, 07:18:51 PM
to collect stick insect eggs :)

We tend to repeat ourselves around here, but I suspect this is the first time this has ever been said.   :cheers:


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11093 on: January 29, 2026, 02:06:03 AM
Cement...
Ouch! Good thing it was set right easily enough.
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11094 on: January 29, 2026, 07:35:12 AM
We tend to repeat ourselves around here, but I suspect this is the first time this has ever been said.   :cheers:

:D :cheers:
You should seriously visit vicfan.com. All the hoopy froods are doing it.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11095 on: January 29, 2026, 07:36:50 AM
You should seriously visit vicfan.com. All the hoopy froods are doing it.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11096 on: January 29, 2026, 11:21:30 AM
Cement... I used it on cement. Or rather, the cement used itself on the Workchamp. I've had this thing one week :facepalm: I feel like had it fallen on any other part it would have been fine. It still works fine though; I used a prybar to bend the frame back and then filed it down with my Swisschamp and it's pretty much back to its original working state.

Yep, mine had the same thing happen in the first few days. But easy to bend back so no worries.


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11097 on: January 31, 2026, 09:56:38 PM
Orange peeler on Executive to cut off labels for bottles to recycle.
I knew my wife was a keeper when she transitioned from calling it a knife thingy to a multi-tool.

I might be crazy but it's kept me from going insane- Waylon Jennings


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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11098 on: February 02, 2026, 08:42:09 PM
used the Hunter 111mm a few days ago. my dog got some vines with thorns tangled around his neck and the serrated blade helped to get him out without any injury. I was on the fence about it, but now it is a permanent stay in my bumming around bag
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Re: What did you use your Sak on today?
Reply #11099 on: February 02, 2026, 11:19:39 PM
Hope your dog is okay! And the 111mm is just about perfect, in my view. A two-layer 111mm would be just about all I'd need for my day-to-day in a suburban setting.
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