. . . would anybody want one of these?
Weighing more than a kilo and costing $1,200 US, with 85 implements and 110 functions 😕
why on earth . . .
06 Wednesday Dec 2006
Posted in miscellany
06 Wednesday Dec 2006
Posted in miscellany
. . . would anybody want one of these?
Weighing more than a kilo and costing $1,200 US, with 85 implements and 110 functions 😕
casa azahar 
Is it actually that wide?
I had a Swiss Army knife once – a Victorionix one – the Wenger ones are rubbish. It used to go with me wherever I went and was the most useful thing I’ve ever owned. It didn’t have quite that much in it, though. I’ve heard that Leatherman tools are even better.
But, yes, I think a telescopic pointer is taking things a bit to far. You could always use one of the knife blades to hew one from a twig.
(Did you come across this while looking for Noggin’s Christmas gift?)
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Incidentally…one has to admire an army that carries a corkscrew as standard equipment.
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According to this Grauniad article “the version of the knife that is actually issued to the Swiss army, by the way, does not feature a corkscrew.” But I’ll bet the French army version does. 😉
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If you click on the thumbnail you’ll see a larger version of the pic … I wonder how you’d know where to find everything without a very large user’s manual.
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A friend once went on exercises with the Portuguese navy. Because they were at Action Stations, lunch consisted of emergency rations. They apologised to him for only having tetrapac cartons of wine (although they still gave a choice of red or white).
I shared a student house with a woman who was in the Swiss Navy. Honest!
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I can think of at least two people who would love that thing- though neither would have any use for a corkscrew. But it’s a little pricey, even with all of the implements it includes.
I used to have a Swiss army knife. I could’ve used one with a fly swatter then.
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Looks like a do-it-yourself Freddy Kreuger kit.
Is the Swiss Navy a bit like the Bolivian navy?
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I have a Victorinox swiss army knife. It is in my float bag (the bag of essential stuff I take on the river) MIne is the official knife, so it has no corkscrew, and so I am forced to bring along an extra implement.
The actual knife is a very useful thing, and when I was travelling in Costa Rica I discovered that one of the most important things on it was the tiny pliers — without them we would have never gotten the watercolor tubes open.
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Now apaprently there is a Czech navy. It goes back to the days when the Czech Legion had to fight their way home via Vladivostok after WWI. They controlled a stretch 200 miles each side of the Trans-Siberian railway and fought both the Reds and Whites using artillery pieces mounted on boats and rafts on Lake Baikal.
I’ve found the saw attachment dead handy on many an occasion. There are few emergency bits and bobs that can’t be manufactured from a Swiss Army knife and a tree.
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