Red headed executive step child?

[ElevenBlade]

The Compact is unusually expensive too.   

[JK]

The Compact is unusually expensive too.   

I paid £20 for my Compact earlier this year so I thought that was OK. Re: Tourist, I just saw some around the £16 mark which seems reasonable for something small with two blades and an awl.

[Shopdoc]

All good points. Cost wise, it’s really not much more than a Classic in the US. A few dollars. Not enough to dissuade me. It has a slightly bigger blade which makes it more useful for me without adding much weight or bulk to my pocket compared to a classic. I wouldn’t mind going a little bit bigger such as spartan size but I absolutely have to have scissors. My only 2 layer option (3 layer becomes pocket unfriendly to me) therefore would be a compact. The only screwdriver option with this is the large flat head which I don’t find useful at all. I’m typically dealing with small phillips head and the executive works fantastic for that.

These are my reasons to carry which does not answer the original question. I think the above responses are valid points and, I’m sure, are accurate to why many choose not to carry the executive. I wouldn’t have given it a 2nd look until reading about it on the forums. However, once in the pocket for a week straight and I was sold.

[pfrsantos]

I paid £20 for my Compact earlier this year so I thought that was OK. Re: Tourist, I just saw some around the £16 mark which seems reasonable for something small with two blades and an awl.

Actually, it's one blade and one nail file. Still, it's one of my favourite SAKs.

 

[cbl51]

All good points. Cost wise, it’s really not much more than a Classic in the US. A few dollars. Not enough to dissuade me. It has a slightly bigger blade which makes it more useful for me without adding much weight or bulk to my pocket compared to a classic. I wouldn’t mind going a little bit bigger such as spartan size but I absolutely have to have scissors. My only 2 layer option (3 layer becomes pocket unfriendly to me) therefore would be a compact. The only screwdriver option with this is the large flat head which I don’t find useful at all. I’m typically dealing with small phillips head and the executive works fantastic for that.

These are my reasons to carry which does not answer the original question. I think the above responses are valid points and, I’m sure, are accurate to why many choose not to carry the executive. I wouldn’t have given it a 2nd look until reading about it on the forums. However, once in the pocket for a week straight and I was sold.

The compact is another Vic that I just don't understand Victoriox's pricing on. Relatively few tools, but higher price than a more equipped SAK. And I agree with doc, I have little need for a flat screw driver these days. Except for firearms, the whole world if not the universe is held together with number 2 Phillips or smaller screws.

I think 95% of the time I reach of ray pocketknife, its to cut something. The other is split between snipping and small Phillips screws. I loehaving a small two blade knife with scissors. I've GOT to have scissors.

[ElevenBlade]

Actually, it's one blade and one nail file. Still, it's one of my favourite SAKs.

 

  

It's got a large and small blade - It's on my list of SAKs that I dont need that I need to buy

https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/Medium-Pocket-Knives/Tourist/p/0.3603

[ElevenBlade]

The compact is another Vic that I just don't understand Victoriox's pricing on. Relatively few tools, but higher price than a more equipped SAK. And I agree with doc, I have little need for a flat screw driver these days. Except for firearms, the whole world if not the universe is held together with number 2 Phillips or smaller screws.

I think 95% of the time I reach of ray pocketknife, its to cut something. The other is split between snipping and small Phillips screws. I loehaving a small two blade knife with scissors. I've GOT to have scissors.

The combo tool on the Compact will turn a Phillips - you can tilt the corner of the SD with the acute angle into the screw and use it as a 2D Phillips 

[cbl51]

 

It's got a large and small blade - It's on my list of SAKs that I dont need that I need to buy

https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/Medium-Pocket-Knives/Tourist/p/0.3603

I did that when I was a carrying a bantam, but its very limited. I've had recessed screws that it wouldn't reach, and I had to use my wifes classic to fix the control handle on the trolling motor out on the lake that time. The Phillips screw was recessed up in a cavity, and the SD tip of the classic got in there.

Thats what I love about the executive, that since I reshaped the nail file tip it excels at resessed Phillips screws.

[JK]

I did that when I was a carrying a bantam, but its very limited. I've had recessed screws that it wouldn't reach, and I had to use my wifes classic to fix the control handle on the trolling motor out on the lake that time. The Phillips screw was recessed up in a cavity, and the SD tip of the classic got in there.

Thats what I love about the executive, that since I reshaped the nail file tip it excels at resessed Phillips screws.

I find the combo tool better at Phillips than the opening layer tools. The SD tip is a different tool altogether, though. Does those tiny screws. Very handy. I usually carry a Manager and a Bantam.

[JK]

All good points. Cost wise, it’s really not much more than a Classic in the US. A few dollars. Not enough to dissuade me. It has a slightly bigger blade which makes it more useful for me without adding much weight or bulk to my pocket compared to a classic. I wouldn’t mind going a little bit bigger such as spartan size but I absolutely have to have scissors. My only 2 layer option (3 layer becomes pocket unfriendly to me) therefore would be a compact. The only screwdriver option with this is the large flat head which I don’t find useful at all. I’m typically dealing with small phillips head and the executive works fantastic for that.

These are my reasons to carry which does not answer the original question. I think the above responses are valid points and, I’m sure, are accurate to why many choose not to carry the executive. I wouldn’t have given it a 2nd look until reading about it on the forums. However, once in the pocket for a week straight and I was sold.

Oh, if the Executive was a bit more expensive than a Classic, say the price of a Waiter or Spartan, I'd definitely get one. I just won't pay more than I paid for my Harvester for one (which is what they price it as in the UK).

[ElevenBlade]

I did that when I was a carrying a bantam, but its very limited. I've had recessed screws that it wouldn't reach, and I had to use my wifes classic to fix the control handle on the trolling motor out on the lake that time. The Phillips screw was recessed up in a cavity, and the SD tip of the classic got in there.

Thats what I love about the executive, that since I reshaped the nail file tip it excels at resessed Phillips screws.

Your Bantam misses you CBL. 

[cbl51]

I find the combo tool better at Phillips than the opening layer tools. The SD tip is a different tool altogether, though. Does those tiny screws. Very handy. I usually carry a Manager and a Bantam.

I don't think I can name all the things I've fixed with that little SD tip of the classic nail file. The best one was the clothes drier.

One day Karen tells me the door latch on the clothes drier is busted. I go downstairs to the laundry room and sure enough the door just flops open. The little spring loaded latch thing in the door is gone. I bend down and take a closer look at what tools I;m gonna need to fix it and I see just two small Phillips head screws on each side of the for and another two on top on each side of the latch. I takeout my classic and in a minute I've got the screws out and used the SD tip to gently pry the clamshell sheet metal half of the door apart. I takeout the plastic thing that goes up inside the frame, and go down the road to the appliance shop and get another one for all of like 5.95.

Go home, snap in the new part and in a minute or so have the door screws all back in and the drier is now functional again. One Sear's Kenmore clothes drier fixed with a Victorinox classic. Didn't even need my tool box. The SD tip of the classic nail file is a great tool!!!!!

There was the rented Honda Metropolitan scooter in Key West, a fishing reel out on the water, the door knob assembly in my Aunt Esters home in Coral Gables Florida...

[Jazz]

I just love these small SAK threads. They’re changing my life, I tell you. 👍🏼 

[pfrsantos]

 

It's got a large and small blade - It's on my list of SAKs that I dont need that I need to buy

https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/Medium-Pocket-Knives/Tourist/p/0.3603

Dude, you're right. Sorry, I was thinking about the Sportsman! I chose the Sportsman because it has a nail file. I rather have a blade and nail file than two blades, more diversity.

 

[gene stoner]

I'm not a big fan of the 74mm SAK's. In my opinion they have the least useful tool set of any SAK size.

When an Executive runs $35 to $40 and a Rambler + Walker cost about $40 to $45 why would you buy an Executive?

[ElevenBlade]

Dude, you're right. Sorry, I was thinking about the Sportsman! I chose the Sportsman because it has a nail file. I rather have a blade and nail file than two blades, more diversity.

 

 
I'm anti-file. It's something of a bad character trait that I have.

When I finish the ongoing Soldier challenge I'm going to have to challenge myself with nothing but a file for a month.