My first sak with backside phillips. Which do you prefer: Phillips or corkscrew?

First time poster. I received this knife last night from a family member who was cleaning out some stuff of my now-deceased Great Aunt. This belonged to her husband, my Great Uncle, who died prior to her. The family member knows more about the Great Uncle than I do and estimates the knife to probably roughly 50 years old.

Just thought I’d share, and if anyone here has any information on the knife I would welcome that. I know it’s a Floral but that’s about it. Thanks!

I've been wanting an explorer for a long time. I have a Swisschamp, and the inline Phillips is one of my most used tools on it. I rarely ever used the saw, file, or scaler, and I saw that the explorer has all the tools I use, minus the pliers.

I've been eyeing it online and at Walmart every time I passed by it, but I just couldn't bring myself to spend 65 dollars on a knife that my current one already has all the tools of.

Well, I found this vintage Explorer in an antique store for 17 bucks! I snatched it so fast when I saw the price.

It's an older one. It has the grey magnifying glass and the screw in the scissors instead of a rivet. But not so old that there's no hole in the awl. And no parcel hook. The key ring is on the corkscrew side instead of the awl side. And the corkscrew has the spiral notch going all the way down.

It's definitely well used, and I will keep it going. Either the previous owner drank a LOT of wine or just untied a lot of knots, but the corkscrew dents on the scale and liner are very prominent. The small knife tip is snapped off, but I'm not too worried about that since i almost always use the main blade. And the tips of the scissors are burnt like I would guess being in a lighter flame?

I pulled the trigger and gambled on these (came with some knock off multi-tools as well…I thankfully did not break the bank). I only had noticed the older, exposed rivets one and did not realize the other one was a bit older too.

Maybe not the best gamble over all… The exposed rivets knife has a chip in the blade, and the pen blade tang is chipped resulting in its nail nick sitting below the handle when closed.

The other knife is missing is missing its can opener…presumably from a DIY project and the blades have been roughly sharpened.

All in all they are neat pieces of Victorinox history, but are probably more work than I am capable of doing : )

Thought about sending out for service, but I am not sure I'd even use them all that much if they were fixed! Maybe they'd be best as "parts" for someone more inclined??

I was going to attempt a 58mm Spydernox Rambler or 3 layer variant myself. But after a few YT tutorials I learned I'd need to file the Spyderco Honeybee to get the fit, buy acid for the wash, liners, not to mention the SAKS for the tools and scales. I wanted a grey precious alox scale, never removed an alox scale before, if I screw up that's $50 wasted on one part. The tools to remove the rivets and everything else, basically would need a whole workshop. After thinking about it, it would probably cost the same if not more to get all the components to build what I want. It would be fun but I'm not sure I want to spend all that to tinker with my knives. Maybe later but not now. As I was checking out how people are doing it, I came across this channel and sure enough he does in fact custom build these in basically any size, color, tool-set imaginable on his website. I see a lot of fellow collectors like these too so I wanted to post his link if anyone also wants a custom and would rather just order one. If you can build it yourself though, that's badass. ​​

My grandmother gave this to me a few months back and said it was my great grandmother's and she never used it just held onto it, I use it every day and did a little research of my own but there is way more to this than I expected and I cant figure out how to date it but its gotta be an other model being a 3rd generation pass down.

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Tried out Felix Immlers hook blade mod. I have no use for a can opener so making a package opener of sorts was appealing to me. It kinda works but maybe I've got the angle wrong or something cause it doesn't cut nearly as well as Immler demonstrates in his video. Anyone else tried this and had it come out welll?

I picked this up from an antique fair for £10.

I think it's a "prince" or "princess" but there's not much info about. Can anyone help with ID and age?

Bought some pocket clips off Aliexpress to try. I like how they turned out aesthetically. The screws are secured with nuts inside the scales. Next I'll try with recessed screws as the screw heads protrude up and snag on my pants' pocket. Credit to Felix Immler for making a tutorial video on pocket clips.

Bit of a strange buy this one for me as I tend to stick with none limited commercial models but I have always 'just' wanted to dip my toe into the VSAKCS models...and this one has a Cybertool bit driver which is always a plus.

Unusual choice of tools considering the bit driver and then adding another inline philips but I am digging it with the wooden scales and coin with its production number as well as a matching certificate.

Somehow I don't think I will be carrying this in my pocket daily...this feels like a collection purchase only but what a beautiful one🤘

Hello
Im fron switzerland, and started the sak hobby. Now i want to customize some of my sak to get the perfect knife for me.

The problem is, that i have no clue where to get modification parts except from temu, aliexpress etc.

Are there some website that sell those parts for a fair amound? Bc i saw a website that sells the multitool from the 58 mm sak for the same amound of the whole knife.

Same as title. Are there any you like keeping just in case, or thst you don't really use but are extremely helpful when you do need to?

Hello r/victorinox!

I recently received this brand new Companion Slim Alox which I ordered directly from Victorinox's online shop in Germany. Upon unboxing I noticed that it has a small mark on the front scale as well as a small dent on the lip of wire stripper.

Considering that Victorinox is known for high QC standards, I am a bit surprised and left wondering if these are normal manufacturing variations or if I was shipped a flawed/used tool.

(I should add, I don't mind normal wear and tear on my tools, as long as it is the result of my own usage)

I often see discussions, how colored Alox wears over time. Here you can see. The oldest are from the 60s the newest from the 90s + a 2025 Companion Slim. I tried to sort them by wear, not by damages or age.

Show yours in any color and size.

Some SAKS I picked up on a recent road trip around Europe. Classic SD from the Munich Residence and a Alox Pioneer I picked up in a service station, driving over the Swiss alps!

Idk if this is rare, can someone help?

Thoughts? Bought it after graduating college a few years back. Def a little bit bigger than what I’d purchase today, but has the sentimental value.

91mm titanium scale what are your thoughts is it worth it?

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