Good point! I've noticed the "don't know/don't care/don't use" thing a lot videos. I've been considering making a video or 9...
Quote from: firiki on March 16, 2017, 03:20:51 PMI started this poll once, out of curiosity. http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,58265.msg1056172.html#msg1056172The hook got a considerable dislike percentage. Personally, I like the hook. Show contentAnd the fish scaler. Combo tool, not so much.I've seen the pool and read the topic, still can't understand from the reason's given to why people dislike the hook and like it to be gone. Let's consider: Even if one hardly uses the hook, or see's much use for it at all, why the hell would it be better if it wasn't there when the hook takes up absolutely no extra space, and practically adds almost no extra weight and can be useful for something, eventually? It makes no sense to me, being there is better than not being there as far as function and usefulness goes.Now if one argues that he prefers not having the hook there for an aesthetics's purpose (with just the plain spring on the back), that i can understand as a reason, for example...Or if they invented another tool to go with the scissor's on that spring instead of the hook that one might find more usefull, that i can also understand as a reason...
I started this poll once, out of curiosity. http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,58265.msg1056172.html#msg1056172The hook got a considerable dislike percentage. Personally, I like the hook. Show contentAnd the fish scaler. Combo tool, not so much.
the day i see someone walk into the post office with a stack of brown paper wrapped parcels and string being toted by a vic hook is the day when I give all my saks away, what year is this 1948? In fact if that has ever been done by a living human being I would be shocked
Quote from: Blackbeard on March 20, 2017, 07:51:35 AMthe day i see someone walk into the post office with a stack of brown paper wrapped parcels and string being toted by a vic hook is the day when I give all my saks away, what year is this 1948? In fact if that has ever been done by a living human being I would be shocked Ookkk....
:cough cough: The hook was introduced n 1991 :cough cough:ITS NOT FOR CARRYING PARCELS.
EDIT:Not to probe anything to anyone but to myself I'm not crazy On this image you can see on example 14 that the hook is marketed as parcel carrier.(Image removed from quote.)
One could also use it for carrying an overloaded plastic grocery sack, so it doesn't cut into your fingers. (Tho before I had a SAK with the hook, I just used the whole knife handle as a support, to spread out the strain.)Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
There's a post somewhere with over 50 uses of the hook. I never used it myself though. Maybe we should have a "Never used the hook Club"?The "Never used an awl Club" was pretty succesful!
Quote from: Ronald Schröder on March 20, 2017, 06:08:38 PMThere's a post somewhere with over 50 uses of the hook. I never used it myself though. Maybe we should have a "Never used the hook Club"?The "Never used an awl Club" was pretty succesful!While I'm awaiting my first hook use, I had my first awl use the first week I bought my first SAK. Bought a very cheap belt for my work pants and bought it a size small. Hole making 101 for me 😁
...I think people always tend associate the hook with the parcel carrier thing probably because that's what cause the original idea that made Vic put the hook on Sak's in the early 90's, because they had to wrap up postal parcels with string in Switzerland, and a hook on a sak would be handy to help carry them...
Quote from: MacGyver on March 20, 2017, 10:48:35 AM
that video should be called "20 things you will never do with your sak"
Quote from: Mactire404 on March 20, 2017, 11:14:10 PMQuote from: MacGyver on March 20, 2017, 10:48:35 AM I'm sure everyone has already seen this historic piece of film:
The hook is one of my favorite tools- I use it to test people's imaginations. Last night, I used it to build a pair of 100' paracord crullers (like a paracord donut, only not a torus). I use it for a lot of different lashing projects and paracord work in general, actually. They get used for tightening lacing in my shoes and boots, in various packs, and one more than one occasion it has come out for snugging up corsets. (A man has friends with hobbies- if you're judging, you're really just jealous). And without it, the pen is much less useful. But I do think the nailfile hook should be standard. Why only on the Compact? It is an amazing striker for strike anywhere matches along with fingernails
If I'm sporting Plus scales and don't have the hook to hold the pin I'm all like
Quote from: El Corkscrew on July 11, 2017, 10:12:49 AMIf I'm sporting Plus scales and don't have the hook to hold the pin I'm all like I understand that mate, but all 84/91 current scales have the pin hole (plus or standard), except the nylon ones i think... so no need for the hook for that...
Quote from: MacGyver on July 11, 2017, 11:24:10 AMQuote from: El Corkscrew on July 11, 2017, 10:12:49 AMIf I'm sporting Plus scales and don't have the hook to hold the pin I'm all like I understand that mate, but all 84/91 current scales have the pin hole (plus or standard), except the nylon ones i think... so no need for the hook for that...That might be a typo Mac.