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us Offline IMR4198

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37230 on: October 18, 2023, 03:41:15 AM
I just saw the Statue of Liberty Spartan.  Nice one, Nate.  Best wishes.  G  :salute:


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37231 on: October 18, 2023, 04:45:54 AM
Statue of Liberty Spartan
Very nice :tu:

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37232 on: October 18, 2023, 10:35:50 AM
Some nice colourful and unusual finds recently.
It’s my 21st wedding anniversary today ( brass and nickel would you believe) so Mrs Bold let me build this and
financed the parts to make it happen. Scales, scissors, blade and awl are from a 2021 Limited Edition Pioneer X I had in the draw. Combo tool from a mil-tec GAK, pivots and screws from SAK Spares and acid etching and brass washing of the tools courtesy Bladebridge Customs. Nickel silver liners too of course! I believe next year is our stainless and stag anniversary …. :rofl:


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37233 on: October 18, 2023, 11:01:08 AM
Some nice colourful and unusual finds recently.
It’s my 21st wedding anniversary today ( brass and nickel would you believe) so Mrs Bold let me build this and
financed the parts to make it happen. Scales, scissors, blade and awl are from a 2021 Limited Edition Pioneer X I had in the draw. Combo tool from a mil-tec GAK, pivots and screws from SAK Spares and acid etching and brass washing of the tools courtesy Bladebridge Customs. Nickel silver liners too of course! I believe next year is our stainless and stag anniversary …. :rofl:
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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37234 on: October 18, 2023, 12:05:02 PM
Combo tool from a mil-tec GAK
Superb build!  :hatsoff:
What adjustments have you done to the 108 combo tool?


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37235 on: October 18, 2023, 12:27:46 PM
Some nice colourful and unusual finds recently.
It’s my 21st wedding anniversary today ( brass and nickel would you believe) so Mrs Bold let me build this and
financed the parts to make it happen. Scales, scissors, blade and awl are from a 2021 Limited Edition Pioneer X I had in the draw. Combo tool from a mil-tec GAK, pivots and screws from SAK Spares and acid etching and brass washing of the tools courtesy Bladebridge Customs. Nickel silver liners too of course! I believe next year is our stainless and stag anniversary …. :rofl:
Congrats! Both on the anniversary and on the knife!

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37236 on: October 18, 2023, 12:28:42 PM
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It is just a matter of time before they add the word “Syndrome” after my last name.

I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37237 on: October 18, 2023, 12:32:23 PM
Makes sense to me.  I like the minimal weight and bulk.  Best wishes and welcome to MTo.  Gary
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+1

Welcome aboard! I do wish they make a "real" Bantam X!

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It is just a matter of time before they add the word “Syndrome” after my last name.

I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37238 on: October 18, 2023, 01:35:01 PM
Superb build!  :hatsoff:
What adjustments have you done to the 108 combo tool?
Congrats! Both on the anniversary and on the knife!

 :cheers: :hatsoff:

Thank you ;0)

Quite a drastic rework of the pivot end. It’s on opener layer spring so have made a spacer for the other end too. I should have taken pics but forgot in my rush to get it together but I’m sure I’ll do this again so will post work on progress then. The Miltec knives are about £9 so really cheap for donors…and surprising passable quality combo tool (blade not so nice and scales are attached by ridiculously inadequate glue). Might just get another couple and keep one for a user.


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37239 on: October 18, 2023, 01:49:25 PM
    Good looking mod and happy anniversary.  I think you are on to something with the MilTecGAK clone.  Cheap fodder for the modder.  Don't like the crude blade?  Mess with it.  Bad scales and chintzy glue job?  Change.  Cheap enough to strip for parts.  It would be nice to see somebody include a liner-lock with a tool like the GAK saw/combo tool.  That thing needs a lock.  The tool is hazardous if you aren't careful.  (That comes from decades of carrying one every day)  I don't remember seeing a Vic mod with a liner-lock built in.  There probably is somewhere?   Best wishes.  Gary
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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37240 on: October 18, 2023, 02:12:52 PM
The scales themselves are actually not bad - just can’t see them staying on for long so definitely room for experiment there. The GAKs do have that cover for the saw - but lock would be better for sure….probably above my skill set  but you have sowed the seed now  :rofl:


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37241 on: October 18, 2023, 02:28:07 PM
     You know I don't find the saw particularly hazardous to use.  It's when you use the screwdriver on the end that you get it.  When you push against a screw and turn it is when the thing tried to fold.  You have to watch it folding down when you start maybe, then when you turn the screw any at all, it tries to fold in another direction.  I carry a Vic Trooper (daily since early 1980s) and don't think it had a guard when I bought it new.  If it had, I likely would have discarded it anyway.
     Since you are stripping knives like the MilTec for parts already, it would be relatively easy to just strip a liner with the liner lock out of a Chinese locking folder and cut it to fit.  Or use it for a model.  I noticed the Euro price.  Naturally it might not be legal where you live.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37242 on: October 18, 2023, 07:18:14 PM
     You know I don't find the saw particularly hazardous to use.  It's when you use the screwdriver on the end that you get it.  When you push against a screw and turn it is when the thing tried to fold.  You have to watch it folding down when you start maybe, then when you turn the screw any at all, it tries to fold in another direction.

I don’t regularly carry 108 mm, but find myself often choking up on 91 mm and 84 mm screwdrivers for the same reason.

Also of course the reason why the classic TL-29 has a non-locking blade, but locking screwdriver.


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37243 on: October 20, 2023, 05:44:46 AM
I know it's not really a SAK, but I've been passing through Toronto on a trip to visit friends and, well, I couldn't resist. When in Rome and all that. :whistle:



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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37244 on: October 20, 2023, 07:13:11 AM
What a fun find! The gentleman in question on the coin is actually buried (along with his wife, Empress Eugénie and at least one son) no more than 1km from where I live!  :cheers:

Needed to go on his wikipedia page to know where it is :whistle:
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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37245 on: October 20, 2023, 09:04:05 AM
St Michael’s Abbey is an interesting place to visit, and one of my local pubs (now closed and turned into houses) used to have the name ‘The Imperial Arms’ but the escutcheon on the pub sign was for the French imperial dynasty, and indeed some of the local roads have French names which confuses visitors since with Aldershot, Camberley and RMA Sandhurst being very close there are heaps of references to British military history! Indeed a statue to Wellington used to be found only a mile down the road, since moved though the roundabout retains the name! The Imperial Residence is now a Catholic girls’ private school. Until I lived here, I’d no idea that Napoleon III was buried in England!


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Reply #37246 on: October 23, 2023, 05:52:30 PM
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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37247 on: October 27, 2023, 11:17:04 PM
I got a Wenger S101 today.  I had the Delemont version of this in red and was looking for one with Evogrip scales and came across this Wenger version on ebay new for quite a reasonable price and picked it up,  In the comparison, the Wenger is on the right and Delemont on left.  Note how the Wenger scales cover the aluminum liners.


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37248 on: October 28, 2023, 02:50:40 AM
    Nice photos there, BT.  I think the scales overlapping the liners was one of my least favorite parts of the Wenger Evo design.  It seems that the likelihood of chipping a scale would be easier with the exposed cellidor.  Maybe not.  Might just look that way.  I try not to drop these things.  I heard some 'authority' say that the Wenger didn't have any outside liners, just cellidor.  Not true.  You just can't see them as easily.  I will say that the liners look very thin on my Wenger Evo S10.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37249 on: October 28, 2023, 03:05:19 AM
    Nice photos there, BT.  I think the scales overlapping the liners was one of my least favorite parts of the Wenger Evo design.  It seems that the likelihood of chipping a scale would be easier with the exposed cellidor.  Maybe not.  Might just look that way.  I try not to drop these things.  I heard some 'authority' say that the Wenger didn't have any outside liners, just cellidor.  Not true.  You just can't see them as easily.  I will say that the liners look very thin on my Wenger Evo S10.  Best wishes.  G
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  Yeah it probably makes the scales harder to remove.  It does give the knife a slightly cuter look, kind of like a piece of candy.  The Ambassador is another that you secretly want to eat.


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37250 on: October 28, 2023, 11:19:38 AM


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37251 on: October 29, 2023, 02:33:34 AM
I got a Wenger S101 today.  I had the Delemont version of this in red and was looking for one with Evogrip scales and came across this Wenger version on ebay new for quite a reasonable price and picked it up,  In the comparison, the Wenger is on the right and Delemont on left.  Note how the Wenger scales cover the aluminum liners.
Nice! Love the small clip point blades. How do you like the blade lock? Does it mess with the grip on the knife?

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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37252 on: October 29, 2023, 02:34:45 AM
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It is just a matter of time before they add the word “Syndrome” after my last name.

I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37253 on: October 29, 2023, 03:23:19 AM
Nice! Love the small clip point blades. How do you like the blade lock? Does it mess with the grip on the knife?

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I've become a big fan of the 85mm blade lock.  Not that I really need locking blades but I love fiddling with them.  The unlock lever was awkward at first but now it doesn't seem to bother me at all.


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37254 on: October 29, 2023, 03:37:15 AM
Got these two in the mail a couple of weeks ago


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37255 on: October 30, 2023, 02:23:21 AM

Hey Little Tinker

Great to see you back on MT.o - And very nice find


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37256 on: October 30, 2023, 02:25:49 AM
I got a Wenger S101 today.  I had the Delemont version of this in red and was looking for one with Evogrip scales and came across this Wenger version on ebay new for quite a reasonable price and picked it up,  In the comparison, the Wenger is on the right and Delemont on left.  Note how the Wenger scales cover the aluminum liners.

Nice comparison pick Bunk - Thanks - Gonna post a link to this post in the Comparison Piccies thread - Hope that is OK

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37257 on: October 30, 2023, 02:27:06 AM
Nice comparison pick Bunk - Thanks - Gonna post a link to this post in the Comparison Piccies thread - Hope that is OK

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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37258 on: October 30, 2023, 02:29:28 AM
Whoa - That was a fast reply - Thanks

Can I also put the piccie in the Wiki - It's a good/useful one


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Re: What's your latest SAK?
Reply #37259 on: October 30, 2023, 02:29:41 AM
Got these two in the mail a couple of weeks ago(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)
Nice!  Boy a lot of people are getting that winter magic LE thing.  Lovely scales.


 

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