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Tool Talk => Swiss Army Knights Forum => Topic started by: twiliter on February 04, 2018, 01:28:53 PM
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I am going to attempt this. I have only carried my Spirit XBS (from the MTO store! :)) since Dec. 20, 2017.
A lot can happen in a year, so it will be interesting. I will probably not post every day, but I will only pocket carry the Spirit for the duration. I have other SAKs that I will use if necessary, my Pioneer X is in the kitchen drawer, my old SwissChamp in my tool bag (or a Climber), and a Wenger Clipper for nail care. I will try to only use these when I need something the Spirit does not have. Except a 58mm toothpick, which I carry in my wallet.
So barring any incarceration, apocalypse, homelessness, or other unpredictable circumstance, I will commence forthwith (Dec. 20, 2017 retroactive).
Day 47, 318 to go. :ahhh
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Sounds like me. I carried my Leatherman PST for five years. Every day without fail. Then moved onto my Wave for another five years.
Hmmm I wonder if I can pull the retroactive card on those two?? LOL
Best of luck!!!
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May the force stay the heckydern outta yo way............ :like:.......... :tu:
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Sounds like me. I carried my Leatherman PST for five years. Every day without fail. Then moved onto my Wave for another five years.
Hmmm I wonder if I can pull the retroactive card on those two?? LOL
Best of luck!!!
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Thanks Z unit, I have a few that would qualify for retroactive too, but not that I'm currently carrying! ;) :cheers:
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May the force stay the heckydern outta yo way............ :like:.......... :tu:
Thanks Butch, the Dark Side is pleased with my choice. :D :cheers:
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Good luck bro :cheers:
I can understand you not carrying it if you get incarcerated (even though there are places you could secrete it to evade detection), but it would be well handy in an apocalypse or a homelessness sitch.
If you find yourself homeless come and live in the u boat
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This sounds like a great challenge! I EDC'd my Huntsman for 32 years almost exclusively (a PST came into my life) until I went down the path of no return on the Forum and began the search for perfection :facepalm: Go get 'em my friend!!
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Good luck bro :cheers:
I can understand you not carrying it if you get incarcerated (even though there are places you could secrete it to evade detection), but it would be well handy in an apocalypse or a homelessness sitch.
If you find yourself homeless come and live in the u boat
Thanks Bro! :cheers:
Wasn't sure if you had a vacant torpedo tube, but it sounds nicer than a highway overpass. :D
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This sounds like a great challenge! I EDC'd my Huntsman for 32 years almost exclusively (a PST came into my life) until I went down the path of no return on the Forum and began the search for perfection :facepalm: Go get 'em my friend!!
Thanks Barry! :cheers:
32 years is a good stretch, there should definitely be a badge for that! :ahhh
A year with the Spirit should be easy peasy. Time will tell... :)
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Do you never travel by airplane?
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Good luck bro :cheers:
I can understand you not carrying it if you get incarcerated (even though there are places you could secrete it to evade detection), but it would be well handy in an apocalypse or a homelessness sitch.
If you find yourself homeless come and live in the u boat
Thanks Bro! :cheers:
Wasn't sure if you had a vacant torpedo tube, but it sounds nicer than a highway overpass. :D
Hey, I've almost filled in the forms to collect my Irelands share of the MTO money that the Israeli government is giving us. When I come back I'll want Torpedo tube #2 back. :pok:
You can have #3. :angel:
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Good luck with this challenge Twiggy :cheers: I carried an Executive and a Rebar for a good number of years 7 for the Executive and I forget how many with the Rebar :think: A year shouldn't be too hard as you carry this tool (the Spirit) a lot anyways :salute: Keep us updated on your thoughts of it as well :tu: :like: :like:
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Seems like it should be a pretty achievable goal. The spirit is a fine tool with lots of capability. Probably depends on your line of work and daily tool needs more than anything.
Being an office dweller primarily these days, I've gotten along fine with a pioneer as my only EDC for 5 years now.
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Do you never travel by airplane?
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Yes, not often anymore, but it can go in checked luggage. :tu:
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Good luck bro :cheers:
I can understand you not carrying it if you get incarcerated (even though there are places you could secrete it to evade detection), but it would be well handy in an apocalypse or a homelessness sitch.
If you find yourself homeless come and live in the u boat
Thanks Bro! :cheers:
Wasn't sure if you had a vacant torpedo tube, but it sounds nicer than a highway overpass. :D
Hey, I've almost filled in the forms to collect my Irelands share of the MTO money that the Israeli government is giving us. When I come back I'll want Torpedo tube #2 back. :pok:
You can have #3. :angel:
Thanks Pabs (I think?)... :cheers:
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Good luck with this challenge Twiggy :cheers: I carried an Executive and a Rebar for a good number of years 7 for the Executive and I forget how many with the Rebar :think: A year shouldn't be too hard as you carry this tool (the Spirit) a lot anyways :salute: Keep us updated on your thoughts of it as well :tu: :like: :like:
Thanks Ponch, it should be pretty easy, I will update as time allows. :cheers:
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Seems like it should be a pretty achievable goal. The spirit is a fine tool with lots of capability. Probably depends on your line of work and daily tool needs more than anything.
Being an office dweller primarily these days, I've gotten along fine with a pioneer as my only EDC for 5 years now.
5 years is a good run Gus, I carried the SwissChamp for 5 and enjoyed the heck out of it. :cheers:
I do varying kinds of work both indoor and out, besides the at home stuff when I'm there. The Spirit has a good versatile tool set, so it should be fine. :)
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Good luck bro :cheers:
I can understand you not carrying it if you get incarcerated (even though there are places you could secrete it to evade detection), but it would be well handy in an apocalypse or a homelessness sitch.
If you find yourself homeless come and live in the u boat
Thanks Bro! :cheers:
Wasn't sure if you had a vacant torpedo tube, but it sounds nicer than a highway overpass. :D
Tube no.2 is free since we fired pabs out the other day. It's got your name on it bro. It's the one with wifi! :cheers:
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I hope you launched him back onto Erin´s Isle, Mags. I don´t want anyone Pabloing the continent.
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I hope you launched him back onto Erin´s Isle, Mags. I don´t want anyone Pabloing the continent.
Sorry the rest of Europe. I didn't mean to Pablo the mainland. :ahhh
Please forgive me.
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Did you shoot Pabs' donkey along?
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Did you shoot Pabs' donkey along?
No, we kept Barbara and made her into a delicious and nutritious stew. Mmmmmmmm.
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Did you shoot Pabs' donkey along?
No, we kept Barbara and made her into a delicious and nutritious stew. Mmmmmmmm.
I didn't know that I had a donkey. :ahhh
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Did you shoot Pabs' donkey along?
No, we kept Barbara and made her into a delicious and nutritious stew. Mmmmmmmm.
I didn't know that I had a delicious and nutritious donkey. :ahhh
FTFY
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Did you shoot Pabs' donkey along?
No, we kept Barbara and made her into a delicious and nutritious stew. Mmmmmmmm.
I didn't know that I had a delicious and nutritious donkey. :ahhh
FTFY
Poor Pabs' donkey, I hardly knew thee...
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I started to count to 365 then my brain started hurting.... or was that el Pinot Noir?
Good luck and best wishes T W Real (that's an alias for you)
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I started to count to 365 then my brain started hurting.... or was that el Pinot Noir?
Good luck and best wishes T W Real (that's an alias for you)
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Thanks El C, I used to avoid el Merlot for that reason, back in the day. :drink:
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I started to count to 365 then my brain started hurting.... or was that el Pinot Noir?
Good luck and best wishes T W Real (that's an alias for you)
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Pinoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot Noir!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yttOfIvOw
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Day 50.
The Spirit feels like a regular pocket knife after a while, and tool selection becomes automatic. I could see carrying it indefinitely, and I'm sure after a year I'll probably have some difficulty getting used to something else. There are five selections each side, and it's only a matter of knowing whether I want the Phillips side or not. Not as easy as a SwissChamp, but close to it.
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Day 65, awlive spear. :salute:
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Barry! :cheers:
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Day 73, one fifth of a year, yes, 20% there. :)
The Spirit is like a regular pocket knife now, but so much handier. Missing my Climbers, but really liking the extra functionality of the Spirit. It's not only a really good outdoor tool, it's very at home in any environment, a good all around tool to carry. :tu:
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The Spirit really does seem to bridge the gap between a massive, pliers-based multitool and a pocket knife.
During my 30-day challenge, I came to think of the Spirit as "a Boy Scout knife with pliers."
Nice job so far, twiliter. :tu:
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Good stuff Twiliter. :like:
The Spirit feels like a regular pocket knife after a while, and tool selection becomes automatic. I could see carrying it indefinitely, and I'm sure after a year I'll probably have some difficulty getting used to something else. There are five selections each side, and it's only a matter of knowing whether I want the Phillips side or not. Not as easy as a SwissChamp, but close to it.
That's one of the best things about the Spirit to me too - accessibility and ease of use.
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Thanks guys! :cheers:
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Day 94. The Spirit X has a new friend, a titanium I.N.O.X. with black paracord strap. Getting used to wearing an indestructable watch should prove as amusing as carrying an ultimately utilitarian MT. :D
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Day 104 :tu:
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Day 94. The Spirit X has a new friend, a titanium I.N.O.X. with black paracord strap. Getting used to wearing an indestructable watch should prove as amusing as carrying an ultimately utilitarian MT. :D
That's a nice timepiece ... and space metal too ?!! :drool:
Utilitarian ? The Spirit ? You can't say that and leave it there .... If that's the case it was designed on the the Italian side of the Alps. Utilitarian but with so much style :cheers:
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Day 94. The Spirit X has a new friend, a titanium I.N.O.X. with black paracord strap. Getting used to wearing an indestructable watch should prove as amusing as carrying an ultimately utilitarian MT. :D
That's a nice timepiece ... and space metal too ?!! :drool:
Utilitarian ? The Spirit ? You can't say that and leave it there .... If that's the case it was designed on the the Italian side of the Alps. Utilitarian but with so much style :cheers:
Thanks Phil! :cheers:
It's utilitarian, versatile, streamlined, polished, and functional. How's that? :D I agree, being black also Italianish rather than Frenchish, but having Swiss Italian lineage, I guess the attraction is genetic. ;)
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Day 122, one third of the way there. :tu:
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Perhaps the question will become "can I stop carrying this tool?"
Think you might find yourself feeling 'naked' without the Spirit?
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Was thinking that too, I might have created an EDC monster. :ahhh
I could try the Surge again, only made it 2 weeks with that. :facepalm:
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FAIL :facepalm:
No fault of the Spirit, made it through July and got to missing my Climbers. The Spirit is still the most pocketable and capable MT (IMO), and it did everything I needed it to do. It's back in my tool bag, and I've been carrying my black Climber + daily for a month or so. Feeling a little lighter now. ;)
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pocketable and capable
Yup, so very on point. :tu: :like:
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7 months is a pretty good run for just one tool though. :hatsoff: Anything you felt it missed out on over that time? And what were the best bits?
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It was a good run H, no doubt. I think the best thing was how easily the Spirit handled everything I threw at it, then slipping it back in my pocket and have it virtually disappear there like a pocket knife. I found my need for pliers were met well, but not often, as I would go several days at a time, sometimes a week or more without needing them, so my need for an MT overall is probably less than a lot you guys here. It depends on what I'm doing, like with outdoor work or projects, I find it handy to have pliers in my pocket, or incidental things around the house or garage, again very handy. So my go-to choice, the Climber is where I find the comparisons and limitations of the Spirit. The 91mm scissors are better and more precise, and the small blade, which I use a lot, works better for me than making either the Spirit blade or chisel do the same thing. The scale tools on my Climber also get more use than, say, the saw or even the pliers. There is also the weight factor, and the Spirit isn't so heavy that it's annoying to carry like some of the bigger MT's, but it's very far from the compactness and light weight of the Climber, which I am so used to carrying over the years now. If I were into old cars and motorcycles as much as I was in my younger days, it would be a different story, and I would still be carrying it, but nowadays that type of thing takes less of my time, and the Climber really meets the majority of my day to day needs. :salute:
Then there's the other problem of having a lot of choices. I missed the variety of the occasional SwissChamp day, or Signature, or what have you... :cheers: