The new Vic lockback - review, critique and teardown (Pic heavy)

[Marius]

Ok, but, again, what about the pouches? Are all North American customers given the wrong pouch (shorter flap, the pouch that works for the smaller 111 mm knives) with no packaging? Why in Switzerland the knife is sold with a better pouch, appropriate for this knife, box and papers and here not? 

[Marius]

Or maybe there is more to it and the knives sold in Europe do not have the blade play and rest of assembly defects that we saw here for the NA ones?

[Syph007]

Or maybe there is more to it and the knives sold in Europe do not have the blade play and rest of assembly defects that we saw here for the NA ones?

Hmm ya that would be nice info to have.  I didnt even realize about the shorter flap case, but you're totally correct.

[victor7000]

OK. So I bought mine directly in Ibach in the factory shop. As you can see from my photos in the other thread, http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,21658.msg731573.html#msg731573
mine came in a standard silver box with the information paper and with a larger pouch. The salesgirl told me the pouch is the same as for the soldier but just a bit larger. That's what you can see on the photos.

My knife has no bladeplay. I recognized the rounded edges on the tang and spine, which syph007 already mentioned in his review. But overall it seams to me to be a good worker. Not comparable with other competitors like Spyderco etc. but ok. The wow effect was only because of it's size, because I'm used with 93 and 111mm 

Next week I should get another piece I ordered from an online shop here in Switzerland. It will not have a pouch at all, because I didn't order it to save some money. I'll check this knife too and let you know my findings.

I'm sure Victorinox will improve that knife in the near future, but I'm a bit sad they didn't send us a few pieces for testing before they sold it to the world, they would have saved a lot of bad publicity   

[Syph007]

I looked around but havent found much other feedback or reviews on the knife. I expected something on youtube by now, but I havent found anything.   

[firiki]

Honestly, I'm biased. I don't really like that knife for a number of reasons but I feel I should give it a chance to show itself after all

[Marius]

I gotta give Victorinox a little bit of a plug on this.  I was contacted by one of their director's via email and he assured me that they are going to address all the issues I raised in the review, and thanked me for the feedback.  So, they are listening, and Im happy to do a follow up review if they make a better product that is more deserving of the Victorinox brand.   

Bump.

So I wonder, did any of this happen? Are the later production knives better? Is this model still in production today?

[splico]

Thanks for the good info. It is just too tactical for me to think about carrying even before the quality issue.

Everyone seems excited about it on FB: https://www.facebook.com/VictorinoxAG?hc_location=stream

Maybe one should link them to this thread.

  fb people...