SAK Mountaineers....question...

[Fisting_Chili]

Is it a different model if there is no key ring?  Sakwiki is not coming up for me...
Thanks!

[Neil]

Not that I'm aware of. Probably has a different catalogue number though.

[Gareth]

Short answer is: not that I can think of.  It has in the case of other 91mm SAKs though.  

This page shows the two that spring to mind Spartan/Standard and Traveller/Climber, note that the Mountaineer is shown on the same page and isn't listed as having a 'no keyring' option.  That doesn't mean it never happened though (I'm guessing you have one ) but I don't think it'll have an alternative name, I'd be interested to know if anyone else knows better.  Don't ask me to explain Vic's naming logic though, there isn't any.

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-browse_image.php?galleryId=46&sort_mode=imageId_asc&imageId=859&scalesize=0

[Neil]

Found it, its called a Gol...

         What!

[Fisting_Chili]

Found it, its called a Gol...

         What!

Think I need to be drunk to understand this...

[Fisting_Chili]

Short answer is: not that I can think of.  It has in the case of other 91mm SAKs though.  

This page shows the two that spring to mind Spartan/Standard and Traveller/Climber, note that the Mountaineer is shown on the same page and isn't listed as having a 'no keyring' option.  That doesn't mean it never happened though (I'm guessing you have one ) but I don't think it'll have an alternative name, I'd be interested to know if anyone else knows better.  Don't ask me to explain Vic's naming logic though, there isn't any.

http://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-browse_image.php?galleryId=46&sort_mode=imageId_asc&imageId=859&scalesize=0

hmmm...reason I'm asking is I just sold a couple
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290404494297&ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT

and only now noticed one didn't have a key ring.  I was afraid maybe I had advertised it wrong...

[Gareth]

Found it, its called a Gol...

         What!

Think I need to be drunk to understand this...

Scarily I don't suspect Neil is.  However I am and it still makes no sense.

[jazzbass]

hmmm...reason I'm asking is I just sold a couple
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290404494297&ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT

and only now noticed one didn't have a key ring.  I was afraid maybe I had advertised it wrong...

The knife w/o the keyring is a newer knife, from the early 90s at the earliest. For a model of this vintage, the keyring loop part of the backspring of the openers. So, if it didn't have one, either:

a. Vic found an older backspring for the opener layer, used that, and didn't put the opener loop on the spacer for the small blade

or

b. The previous owner ground off the keyring loop because it annoyed them.

I would say (b) is much more likely.

[bren10man]

What jazzbazz says...I have never seen a Vic SAK 91mm w/o key ring since the 1980's....and that was a Standard or Weekender...I remember the pre-1985 Grand Prix's did not come with a key ring, either...which I thought odd as that knife was geared toward automobile use.  Nothing to put your keys or whatever on it.

[Benner]

FWIW Neil, I knew what you were on about. 

[Fisting_Chili]

hmmm...reason I'm asking is I just sold a couple
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290404494297&ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT

and only now noticed one didn't have a key ring.  I was afraid maybe I had advertised it wrong...

The knife w/o the keyring is a newer knife, from the early 90s at the earliest. For a model of this vintage, the keyring loop part of the backspring of the openers. So, if it didn't have one, either:

a. Vic found an older backspring for the opener layer, used that, and didn't put the opener loop on the spacer for the small blade

or

b. The previous owner ground off the keyring loop because it annoyed them.

I would say (b) is much more likely.

Thanks JB.  I didn't notice any grinding, but didn't really look for that either.  Appreciate the input