Bucket List Models

[Tuisto]

Hey, Reinier, you seem to have a pretty large collection. Can I ask how you store all of your models? Do you have like a specific storage box or case or are you able to display them all somehow? I've been keeping mine in these plastic cases but I'd like to be able to possibly display some of them. Also, I'd prefer if they were all together somehow and not in like nine different small plastic boxes.

[Reinier]

Hi Tuisto
My collection is inside an IKEA BESTÅ cabinet with glass doors and glass shelves. I have run out of room
Apart from these shelf queens there are dozens of SAKs and SwissTools in drawers everywhere but those are users.

[Reinier]

Something like this (very old pic):



All boxes, manuals, packaging stuff is in two drawers in the same cabinet.

[Tuisto]

Oh man, that's beautiful. We have a lot of bookshelves in our teeny tiny house, but they're all filled with books. I actually don't think we have any wall space left at all. Hopefully we'll be able to move into a slightly larger place where I can put up one of those shelves. It's insane how much difference the glass shelves make...

[Reinier]

Thank you. I like that I can look at them while they are still being protected from dust.

Maybe you can replace your coffee table with a glass top display table

[Tuisto]

You know, that's not a bad idea... I wouldn't be able to display all of mine, but it would be a good start.

[AzteCypher]

Very nice collection Reinier!


Top of my mind for my bucket list is the bright green Vic Climber from BLS.  Borrowed the picture below from Vicfan.  Click on the picture to go to his website regarding this Climber.

[Tuisto]

This is so cool. The one thing I haven't been able to find out is what BLS stands for haha.

[Reinier]

Originally it was the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn.

[Reinier]

Very nice collection Reinier!
Borrowed the picture below from Vicfan. 

Thanks. And just to be clear, that is my picture

[Tuisto]

Originally it was the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn.

Ah, the railroad? Interesting... I feel like one of the perks of living in Switzerland is that everyone and their mother has a very cool SAK over there...

[AzteCypher]

Thanks. And just to be clear, that is my picture

DOH!!!   

Never put two and two together.  Not feeling very bright as of late.   




Awesome picture regardless.   

[Tuisto]

Dude, you wanna hear something? When I first flew out to The Netherlands to check out Leiden University, I had a layover in Brussels. And I thought to myself 'huh, let me check out how to say some things in Belgian and not just French'. It took me way too long to figure out that Belgians speak Dutch (aside from French)... I kept trying to find 'Belgian' on Google Translate and was very upset when I couldn't find it... And it's literally my job... like I'm a subject matter expert in Germanic languages (albeit, Germanic languages from the 4th-12th centuries)!

[AzteCypher]

 

[Tuisto]

I know, eh? What's worse is that I had two very close Belgian friends in high school (I went to an international high school in Moscow) and somehow didn't remember that they spoke Dutch with the Dutch and South African students... I promised I'd never tell anyone about that gaffe, but lo and behold, here we are

[Tuisto]

Hey Reinier, I know you were looking for the blue alox KLu Master Craftsman, but do you have (or have you ever seen) the blue cellidor version of the same model? Apparently there was one produced with all five backside tools with blue cellidor scales.

[Reinier]

Hi. Yes, I posted that one on the previous page: https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,94741.msg2563573.html#msg2563573

I should take better pictures

[Tuisto]

Yeah, I think I remembered about two minutes after I asked that I'd already asked you about that model...haha  . Thanks for the reminder.