SAK Article

[ameeks]

I received the latest issue of Blade magazine and it had a great little article about EDC'ing a SAK by jackknife. You can read it online here. http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/937526/tp/0/all/1/
It's great seeing our favorite little tool getting attention.

[captain spaulding]

Link doesn't work. Article was removed or something.

[ameeks]

I'm sorry, I think you have to be a member of the SOSAK to view it online. Here it is. If it breaks any forum rules please remove.

"Only SAK
03-05-14 12:23.36 - Post#2592603   



Okay, I've been heading in this direction for a long time, and I've even for brief periods, only carried a SAK as my edc pocket knife. But I've always had "other" knives as so called backup, and always backslid to carrying some other knife.

But old age sometimes makes things clear. Of late, I've been only carrying a SAK as my only knife, and surprise, nothing has happened. A black hole didn't swallow the earth, the space time continuum didn't rip asunder. IN fact, life has went on with a sure regularity. I retired in 2001, and I've done more fishing and woods walking and general screwing off than ever before, yet the lowly SAK has come through fr me every time. I had done a huge downsize several years ago, and now I've done more downsizing. One thing old age has bought me, it's how much less we need than than we think.

LIfe is not a sure thing, so sometimes it's nice to have a sharp cutting tool with you. But just as unsure life is, sometimes it's nice to have a screw driver with you. My old man was one of those Great Depression era guys, who were masters at fixing things with a paper clip and some black electrical tape that was the duct tape of their day. Well, I've lost track of all the things I've managed to fix with a SAK, and a good amount of it was in a place were it would have been very inconvenient to be marooned. A Vespa motor scooter on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, a canoe with a malfunctioning electric trolling motor that meant a very long paddle back against a stiffening head wind, and other things.

These days, the better half has got to the point where she can live off the system and collect the social security check. So now we are traveling more than ever. Again, the SAK reigns supreme in this category. Traveling by compact car, space is at a minimum, so my pocket stuff has to be multi-role. The pocket knife of the day has to be able to cut, of course, but also open cans, bottles, have some repair tool capability, and fit in a pocket with room left over for my little Fenix flashlight, keys, bandana, RONCO pocket defibrillator in case of vapor lock.

I've reached a point in my life now, where I realize that through natural selection, I actually don't even own but one or two non SAK pocket knives anymore. I have my little Case peanut, that I will never part with, but it now sits home a lot. It weighs the same as my Vic bantam, but has only a small fraction of it's capability.

I got my very first SAK in 1969, but I finally realize that a SAK is really all I need. There may be prettier knives, knives with the latest cutting edge steel, (okay, bad pun) knives that can be flipped open with one hand in a dramatic manner, but none that can cut what I need to cut, fix a trolling motor out on a long lake, replace the latch on a clothes drier door, or adjust a carburetor on a rental motor scooter in Key West, then slice limes for the cold Gin and tonics after fishing the flats for bonefish.

I guess now that I'm a white haired old fart, my edc knife is a SAK. If I were a bit smarter in my younger day, I could have saved myself a lot of money" - jackknife

[kkokkolis]

Words of wisdom! 

[RT1969]

Is it just me, or did he go a long way in his writing to avoid mentioning which SAK he uses? This could be anything from Alox Bantam (which he mentioned once) to a SwissChamp XLT.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I think sooner or later we all reach that conclusion

I'm hoping its a Farmer

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[dks]

Assuming he is the same person Jacknife writes a lot of stories on bladeforums, based on his experience, but they are stories and not pure articles, so maybe that is why his post may not seem like a proper article

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/598362-Links-to-jackknife-s-tales-With-thanks-to-stockman242

[nsa-x-file]

Thanks for sharing.

[RT1969]

Assuming he is the same person Jacknife writes a lot of stories on bladeforums, based on his experience, but they are stories and not pure articles, so maybe that is why his post may not seem like a proper article

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/598362-Links-to-jackknife-s-tales-With-thanks-to-stockman242

Thanks for the link. You could fill a book with that!

[ducttapetech]

Good read!

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[ducttapetech]

I think sooner or later we all reach that conclusion

I'm hoping its a Farmer

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Or a Surge or a CT41.

live from Nate's mobile

[bigz89]

Great article.

[Swiss Man]

Will somebody please put the link up the one I get isn't opening. Thanks


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[ameeks]

If you aren't a member of the SOSAK and logged in at knifeforums.com the article is locked that's why l posted the article above.

[Swiss Man]

Senior moment. Either I thought that was your writing or another article written by Jackknife.

[Random Dan]

Interesting read 

[Aloha]

Good read. I think with most things age has a way of simplifying some folks lives. 

[nate j]

Is it just me, or did he go a long way in his writing to avoid mentioning which SAK he uses? This could be anything from Alox Bantam (which he mentioned once) to a SwissChamp XLT.

IIRC, he had (and presumably still has) several different models for carry and use, which may explain why he wasn't specific about this.  I think they were all fairly small though, such as the Bantam, Classic, and SI.

[RT1969]

Is it just me, or did he go a long way in his writing to avoid mentioning which SAK he uses? This could be anything from Alox Bantam (which he mentioned once) to a SwissChamp XLT.

IIRC, he had (and presumably still has) several different models for carry and use, which may explain why he wasn't specific about this.  I think they were all fairly small though, such as the Bantam, Classic, and SI.

Thank you. This answers my biggest question, if he is talking about the big tool chests or the smaller pocket knives.

[Caranthanus]