Beat to Smurf SAK

[Leathermended It!]

I found this old fieldmaster in my dad's shop and I thought that I would share it. It's saw has been broken off, the scissor spring is broken, and the blade has seen the bench grinder a time or two. He's not a real SAK fan because he has gone through a lot of them. All of the faults that I see are pretty logical wear though. The small can opener driver is broken, probably because it was overtorqued on a phillips head. The scissor spring is known to break a lot. The press fit scales are bound to come off one time or another, and the blade steel is going to need to be sharpened a lot. Oh yeah, and it has magnetized after so many years.




The broken scale was tried to be glued back on, but now it just looks yucky.


Blade's a little smaller than it used to be. Can anyone estimate an age based on the tang stamps?



Clip point pen blade, weird!


Screw type scissor pivot!


The mini screwdriver is twisted pretty bad.


Broken square phillips and no hole in the awl.


The tools still have a little bit of snap after oiling them.

I thought that this would be an interesting data point for people who wonder about SAKs in really hard wear industrial settings.

[Corwyn]

I'd say ... 1968-1973... 

[Leathermended It!]

I'd say ... 1968-1973... 

Wow! That's an oldie then!

[kirk13]

Yeah,I think Corwyns about right on the dating.

Still,we've seen worse being repaired

[zoidberg]

Etherealicer is gonna do what?!?                                                                                                                                           

[Etherealicer]

Etherealicer is gonna do what?!?                                                                                                                                           

Its probably stenography

Beat to Smurf: SAK!
Smurf to Beat: AWESOME

[Smaug]

That is one abused SAK. I'm sad to see how people don't take care of their tools. 

Sharpening a knife on a bench grinder is a mistake I only made once, as a kid.

[sawman]

"That'll buff right out"....

 

[Lynn LeFey]

I dunno. Seems like it's had an eventful life.

Smaug, I AM with you on the bench grinder thing. Why? Do people do this just because they're lazy, or because they don't own knife sharpeners, or stupid... or stupid-lazy-sharpenerless?

[VoetSak]

I think it has character. I want to get a couple of total wrecks. Quirky knives for the edc rotation. In antiques circles they seem to call it "patina".

Its a posh way of saying that its worth more because it has had the #&£££ beaten out of it lol

[Smaug]

Thinking more about the tool abuse thing, I think it is a sign of the conditions in which the owner grew up in.

My grandpa was/is a REALLY neat guy. But he was a serial tool abuser too. He bought the cheapest tools that he thought would do the job, then beat the heck out of them. But he grew up in The Great Depression. His family was evicted from their house because his dad lost his job and couldn't find another one that paid enough to pay the mortgage. In his mind, he always tried to make do without spending money. Spending money was only on the house, family, and a new car every 4 years for his wife. (he took the 4 year-old ones)

I remember, he was on his back on the garage floor into his early 80s  working on his cars. He didn't HAVE to do that, but he felt like it would be a waste of money to pay someone else to do it, when he knew how to do it himself.

He had a toolbox knife too; it was one of those Barlow-styled electrican knives, with a sheepsfoot blade and a locking flat head screwdriver. Man, that thing was beat.

He went to Europe every year for 10-12 years in the 70s and 80s. He bought himself a Victorinox Passenger, (Explorer without scissors) which was his side table knife, for opening letters, reading fine print, prying things. That one didn't get abused, because it was a memento of a nice trip, much higher quality, and much more expensive than the electrician's barlow.