What's your latest SAK?

[Echotech]

Nice finds dimledger and tinker gnome

[dimledger]

Found a vintage (1957-1971, I think) Victorinox Climber on eBay for a good price (I hope), so I went ahead and bought it.

It came in today's mail and it turns out that it's not a Climber, but a Climber Small!

I'm going to give it a good cleaning, but I thought I'd post some pictures of it here first.

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[Helvetica Bold]

Nice knife and even nicer surprise that it’s a small!

[pa_strunk]

Great catch. Amazing how 7 mm less can be 7 times the price. 

[dimledger]

Nice knife and even nicer surprise that it’s a small!

Thanks. I've been pretty lucky with all of my eBay finds so far, but this is definitely the best of the bunch.

Great catch. Amazing how 7 mm less can be 7 times the price. 

It's a crazy world alright. 

[Bunk Tuppins]

I got this out of curiosity, having never seen or handled one.  I saw a good price and plunked.  The first impression is that it is so thin that it is somewhat hard to work with!  It's a beautiful little thing, though I notice it has a few scratches already.  This might be in order if you are wearing something fancy and don't want any pocket bulge or some other situation where size or weight requirements might suggest thin and light.  It's also a pretty good letter knife.

[pfrsantos]

I got this out of curiosity, having never seen or handled one.  I saw a good price and plunked.  The first impression is that it is so thin that it is somewhat hard to work with!  It's a beautiful little thing, though I notice it has a few scratches already.  This might be in order if you are wearing something fancy and don't want any pocket bulge or some other situation where size or weight requirements might suggest thin and light.  It's also a pretty good letter knife.

Great find! I got one with the BMW logo and some signs of use, but it's still a very gentlemanly carry.

 

[Bunk Tuppins]

Yeah, Excelsior is kind of cool.  This has to be the thinnest knife they make.  Even thinner than a Bantam Alox! 

[Erik Tongol]

Found some gems for really cheap 

 

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[Helvetica Bold]

 Very nice, can we see the tools and the other side? Is that a sterling silver classic?

[Erik Tongol]

Very nice, can we see the tools and the other side? Is that a sterling silver classic?

Here you go mate! Yes its sterling silver 

 

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[Helvetica Bold]

Nice find. I like that you even get scale tool slots on the silver classic.

[dimledger]

Found some gems for really cheap 

The ribbed Alox is so cool. Very simple and somehow both futuristic and retro at the same time.

[pfrsantos]

Found some gems for really cheap 

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Welcome to MTo! Great intro posts!

 

[nakken]

Great find Erik, and welcome to the forum!

[Erik Tongol]

Thanks everyone! Been a long time lurker and recently fell down this rabbit hole of SAKs 

[Aloha]

Great find on the Tiffany SAK 

[Sneider]

My finds this week

[Otonka]

Victorinox Explorer

[tinker gnome]

A 75 mm Prince came last week... Nice guilloché scales... 

[nakken]

Nice find, tinker

[tinker gnome]

Thanks, nakken 

Sometimes the bay has its merits. 

[old Lefty]

A 75 mm Prince came last week... Nice guilloché scales... 

So pretty!

Lähetetty minun SM-T515 laitteesta Tapatalkilla

[tinker gnome]

So pretty!

  And there are several more, like seen here  on SAKWiki

[N05J3W3]

Yeah, Excelsior is kind of cool.  This has to be the thinnest knife they make.  Even thinner than a Bantam Alox!

Seriously? Thinner than a Bantam Alox? Wow.

Any chance someone could post a photo, or a measurement?

[NM. Found a post comparing these: 0.5mm difference.]

[tinker gnome]

This knife has been sold on the bay as "Victorinox Swiss Memory Flight Alox Silver 8GB NOS" and arrived last friday. My first thought was: Can't be, the Swiss Memory (first iteration of the USB stick series) had max capacity of 2GB. So I assumed an USB slim and bid for it. My assumption was wrong: the USB slim has a width of 6,7 mm and weighs 10 grams. This fellow has a width of  10,5 mm and weighs  13,0 grams. No paperwork was included, only the sleeve.

So I checked SAKWiki and found this one: Victorinox Alox Flight Flash. (Hence the second USB variant). Here the measures are 10,36 mm and 13,22 grams. Close enough.

The USB stick was made by a renowned Korean maker and has a write protect switch and red/green status LEDs. That's described on the USB stick SAKWiki page for the second iteration.

Paperworks and original packaging would have been nice, but as the Rolling Stones already knew: "You can't always get what you want".

And the Flight versions without bladed tools are hard to get anyway. So I'm a happy camper. 

[tinker gnome]

Some more pics:

[nakken]

That's a really cool find, congrats!

[tinker gnome]

Thanks, nakken! 

Oh, and the seller put another one on the bay 

[Canuckdad]

My Dad ( he is 76 yrs old) recently passed this little gem down to me. I believe its a Pocket Pal. If not , feel free to correct me . I normally carry a bit bigger Victorinox  SAK but today I felt like carrying my new pal around