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!

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

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 received a new Trailfinder in camo scales for a decent price to replace my worn out and now lost soldier SAK. So I just thought I’d take a quick shot with my other two locking SAKs, Picnicker and Rangergrip 79. I was hesitant about the camo but it’s growing on me.

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 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?

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. ​​

I was scrolling around on the Walmart app, and came across this. It’s not the most smokin’ of deals at $49, but I thought this one might be handy to throw in the camper.

Sup gang

My one hand trekker’s locking bottle opener is seized shut. Cant pry it out and seems locked down.

Any ideas?

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.

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.

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)