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It’s that time of year again- the votes have been tallied and the Knife Of The Year program is well under way! This year’s winner? A regular favourite with members, the Waiter (also known as the Bartender in some areas) in Hunter Green!
I’ll admit it- I never actually expected September would arrive! After seeing one of the Heritage knives last February at the SHOT Show, I have been anxiously awaiting this month, and to be honest, I’ve been drooling over them
It has been some time since The Official Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Collector’s
Society President Dan Jacquart published his first book in the
Collector’s Guide series, A Collector’s Guide to 58mm Small Sized
Pocket Knives, but I have never gotten around to reviewing it properly
for SOSAK members. Well, it’s about time I changed that.
I know I have been promising this for some time, but I finally managed to get started. I have now added the 2008 Victorinox catalogue to the list of downloadable .PDF’s that we have available here on SOSAKOnline.
They say every knife has a story to tell. I'm not really sure where this one's story started, but with me it was the day I found it walking down a road.
From the moment you walk in the door at Freeport Knife Company in Freeport Maine, you know you are in the presence of a serious Swiss Army collector’s shop. Maybe it’s the large Bantam cutout on the outside, maybe it’s the display case full of drool-worthy rare and collectable SAKs just inside the door, or maybe it’s the numerous Victorinox clocks. It’s hard to tell what sets the blood pumping most, but none of the stuff on the walls or in the display cases prepared me for perhaps the most interesting treasure in the store!
Recently I got a request from Wenger, North America to provide some modded Wengers for the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City. I contacted several of our resident modders, and you have all seen the results in recent months- well, here's the lowdown on the show!
At the SHOT Show in February, one of the things that Victorinox showed us was a new scale type called SilverTech. At the time I thought they looked neat, but I wasn’t really all that impressed as everyone knows how I feel about translucent scales. These were admittedly somewhat fancier than regular translucent scales, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
As reported by Neil (NKB), fake Victorinox Rescue tools, complete with all the appropriate logos and stamps have shown up on eBay recently and have suckered in a few people so far. As with many knockoffs, the excitement of getting a good deal is quickly ruined by the realization that what they spent good money on was a cheap copy that was hardly worth the shipping cost.
