[pct-l] Swiss Army type knife

[wayneskraft at comcast.net (Wayne Kraft)]

Why not a Victorinox Classic (knife, file, screwdriver, scissors,  
tweezers, tooth pick -- weighs less than 1 ounce) and a Coghlan's can  
opener (2 for $1.40 at REI, weighs almost nothing)?  You can usually  
get good used Victorinox Classics cheap on ebay because so many were  
seized from airport passengers and sold as scrap by airline  
security.   I understand the rules have changed and now you can carry  
them on the plane, so the supply may dry up, but at this moment there  
are three pages of them on ebay.   Having said that, I have recently  
decided (for reasons I'll go into if anyone is interested) that it  
would be prudent to carry a more substantial knife.   After much  
rumination (and a tragic ebay auction where a I lost a cool antique  
patch knife by 50 cents) I settled on a Swedish Mora knife with  an  
orange plastic handle and a  3 1/2 inch carbon steel blade.  I  
haven't used it yet, so I can't tell you yet whether it turns out to  
be worth the weight or not.

Wayne Kraft


On Jan 18, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Vic Hanson wrote:

> I'm looking for a good small, light, Swiss Army type knife  
> (Victorinox doesn't make one) that has a knife blade, can opener  
> and a sissors. I have a larger one, the "climber", but it has many  
> more tools as well and weighs 3.5 oz. I would like one that weighs  
> about 1oz, 1.5 oz max. Anybody know of one?
>
>   Thanks,
>
>   Vic
>
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