ALOX Cadets, Bantams and Classics I've never seen before.

Ashley · **Reply #150 on:** March 05, 2013, 06:33:04 AM

Hum I haven't received anything yet.

Ash's mobile on the move.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #151 on:** March 05, 2013, 07:12:23 AM

Nice to see at least one US member has received their order. I just received an ebay knife from Switzerland that took 5 weeks to get here. Was sitting in Nashua, NH for at least 10 days.

ameeks · **Reply #152 on:** March 05, 2013, 07:25:43 AM

I was actually surprised. My mail is usually slow. I have a red Farmer coming from across the pond. I hope it arrives as quickly. Sorry to hear about your delay, Colo. I don't understand how it works sometimes.

ColoSwiss · **Reply #153 on:** March 05, 2013, 07:35:15 AM

I've had some stuff from Europe show up in less than a week. Other stuff has taken six weeks. Some of it has to do with how it was shipped (registered takes longer). Sometimes I think the PO or Customs is sitting on stuff for some obscure security reason. So far I've been lucky and only had two items not show up at all (both domestic and both made good).

Enjoy your new toy!

basilio · **Reply #154 on:** March 05, 2013, 10:16:38 AM

From my experience (more than 10 years of shipments from the USA) I can tell you that despite some assassine story about "how it is difficult to ship to Italy" that you can usually find on the web, I had only once a package not showing up (and I suspect it was never shipped).
Having a package lost is very unlikely.
The transit time, however, can take a lot (I experienced two months transit time last December).
Usually shipments from the USA arrive in Italy in 5-7 days, THEN they are hold by the italian customs for weeks.
It doesn't matter at all if they are First Class or Priority Mail. Only Express Mail is faster.

Vladimir · **Reply #155 on:** March 05, 2013, 01:24:39 PM

My second package from Denmark arrived today with Geen Bantam inside

Yesterday I received Black Cadet.

Excellent service from Per, thanks again!

Mimifred · **Reply #156 on:** March 05, 2013, 10:35:34 PM

1 bantam and 2 cadets made it To switzerland today. Great service. Thanks !!

ameeks · **Reply #157 on:** March 06, 2013, 05:09:04 AM

Got to snap a few pics of mine tonight.

Ashley · **Reply #158 on:** March 06, 2013, 11:52:18 PM

It arrived here in WV today. Here is a quick cell pic of it, at work with me.

Ash's mobile on the move.

ICanFixThat · **Reply #159 on:** March 07, 2013, 12:03:37 AM

These knives are sparking a lot of pictures for a change.

Must be all the excitement of finding these gems and then actually being able to order them so easily.

Mine are at my post office. Only 6 days into the month though and I'm already over twice my budget. This year is starting out "EXPENSIVE".

PTRSAK · **Reply #160 on:** March 07, 2013, 01:54:36 AM

not fair... it's a much longer trip downunder so I'm still waiting for mine and drooling over everyone else's pics. AND now I'm thinking I should have got a green one as well.

Agent_Ohm · **Reply #161 on:** March 07, 2013, 05:21:09 AM

got mine in CT today

stax · **Reply #162 on:** March 07, 2013, 06:33:14 AM

Not worried or anything, but still waiting here.

nuphoria · **Reply #163 on:** March 07, 2013, 02:23:54 PM

Got mine too - great service and lovely coloured knives too

AimlessWanderer · **Reply #164 on:** March 07, 2013, 02:25:34 PM

I was a good boy and resisted all temptation

Ashley · **Reply #165 on:** March 07, 2013, 02:52:44 PM

Quote from: 50ft-trad on March 07, 2013, 02:25:34 PM

I was a good boy and resisted all temptation

But how long can you withstand it? The duration will kill you.

Ash's mobile on the move.

user24 · **Reply #166 on:** March 07, 2013, 03:56:35 PM

Own up then, who got the new old stock vintage red Popular then?

It was available on the site originally.

stax · **Reply #167 on:** March 07, 2013, 06:23:55 PM

Ahhhhhhh

Thank you, Per, for the excellent service!

Reinier · **Reply #168 on:** March 07, 2013, 08:29:52 PM

Quote from: user24 on March 07, 2013, 03:56:35 PM

Own up then, who got the new old stock vintage red Popular then? It was available on the site originally.

The RocKnives are gone too. Jamie?

ICanFixThat · **Reply #169 on:** March 07, 2013, 11:09:10 PM

I got my ALox package today, what great service!!

I had a few knives in my order and he sent a VERY nice gift!

This has to be one of the best sellers I've come across.

mpi · **Reply #170 on:** March 07, 2013, 11:41:14 PM

just placed an order, can't wait!

kniv-per · **Reply #171 on:** March 08, 2013, 01:11:35 AM

Quote from: user24 on March 07, 2013, 03:56:35 PM

Own up then, who got the new old stock vintage red Popular then? It was available on the site originally.

Gave the last ones away ....

. . . Fil . . .

Marius · **Reply #172 on:** March 08, 2013, 02:49:08 AM

Quote from: user24 on March 07, 2013, 03:56:35 PM

Own up then, who got the new old stock vintage red Popular then? It was available on the site originally.

That was me, if they had only one of those. After I purchased it kept showing up as available on the site for several days. So maybe it was not the only one. But I am still waiting for the package (the first and only one so far) to arrive..

Marius · **Reply #173 on:** March 08, 2013, 07:17:04 PM

I received mine today! In perfect condition and not just this, but a very nice gift included

It also just happened the gift was something that I actually thought of ordering but decided to skip to not inflate this one order too much... Successful mind reading at work!

Thank you, Kniv-Per!!!

marcel.reijerse · **Reply #174 on:** March 08, 2013, 08:15:15 PM

My cadets arrived last weekend. Trouble is: they are at my office while I am at home with a serious flu. Double frustrating!

ColoSwiss · **Reply #175 on:** March 08, 2013, 10:10:35 PM

While the rest of you were fooling around with alox from 'The Good Stuff', I went for the REALLY good stuff - stainless steel.

Wenger PocketGrip 799 with 'coffin' stainless steel handles.

Thanks Per for the great service!

ICanFixThat · **Reply #176 on:** March 09, 2013, 01:57:16 AM

Quote from: ColoSwiss on March 08, 2013, 10:10:35 PM

While the rest of you were fooling around with alox from 'The Good Stuff', I went for the REALLY good stuff - stainless steel.

Wenger PocketGrip 799 with 'coffin' stainless steel handles.

Thanks Per for the great service!

I'm not a big fan of Heavy Metal, but when it's solid Stainless it's music to my ears. I think I have a used one of those. I do like many parts of these Mini/Pocket grips that Wenger did; After I got my first one I had to hunt down the other models.

I was very happy to pick up the Ranger 13 along with my Alox. It's not quite a s good as I thought because I forgot that model has the opener layer so it's not quite as slim as I had hoped. Still I'm happy to finally have on in my pocket (figuratively), and I'm hunting again.

JRB65 · **Reply #177 on:** March 10, 2013, 09:08:05 AM

Of course I had to take a look at those alox knives after reading this topic...
Some of those gift sets look very tempting

But, I managed to stop shopping after ordering "just an ordinary" black cadet

We'll see how this transaction goes (thinking about customs and the local post office), and maybe I'll check in later to see if there's, say, an orange cadet (or another nice color) left?

Hanne · **Reply #178 on:** March 10, 2013, 12:24:43 PM

The story behind this range of coloured alox models is one of frustration : In DK we have a very strict weapon law. The maximum size of knife that one is allowed to carry is a 91 mm SAK witout a locking blad. Many of the Victorinox novelties are directed towards the big countries/ markets. Thus a lot of one-hand opening knives ( forbidden in DK) and lock blade knives (forbidden in DK) are among the new products launched by Victorinox. We got fed up watching novelties that could never reach the DK users , so we decided to have Victorinox produce a small range for us in DK. Being just around 5,5 mill people here, we are painfully aware that Victorinox themselves are never going to develop anything for DK especially. These models will stay in our DK range but the packaging will change to that of the 'normal' silver boxing. Thanks to all of you guys who, like myself, are fond of the alox versions of the Victorinox models, and have written such nice comments about them. I so hope that we will one day be able to persuade Victorinox to make the 91 SAK with alox handles too. I would just love to carry Climber and Huntsman with alox handles. Best regards from Hanne ( Victorinox Denmark)

marcel.reijerse · **Reply #179 on:** March 10, 2013, 12:44:37 PM

A very informative post Hanne! And welcome to Multitool.org

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