Built SAK Ranger Crafstman

[hso]

I just got this build in the mail today from a fellow that took a Victorinox Ranger and replaced the corkscrew with a Phillips for me. I'll test it this weekend, but my initial impressions are positive.

If this works out I have a donor with the inline finer Phillips I will have him fit in for a handy pocket tool.

 

[bikerdoc]

Very cool idea.
Never saw the need for a corkscrew.

In my drinking days twist tops were cheaper

 

[hso]

Egaaad! There are two different fine SAK inline screw drivers!!! Long and short! What's an obsessive compulsive to do?!?

 

[bikerdoc]

Get both!

 

[Valkman]

I used to like the corkscrew. I calibrated meters at natural gas wells and one adjustment screw was sunk down into the top of the meter. Bugs would fill it with bits of leaves for a nest and I'd corkscrew that stuff out. Easy.

Egaaad! There are two different fine SAK inline screw drivers!!! Long and short! What's an obsessive compulsive to do?!?

Do what doc said.

 

[Slamfire]

I carried this SAK for years



but hated the phillips screw driver on the back of the knife. You can only make quarter to half turns because you don't have a swivel joint holding your wrist to your fore arm bones.

 

[hso]

 

[Valkman]

I carried a Tinker with corkscrew for years, handy knife.

 

[bikerdoc]

Thanks a lot @hso all because of you

Now I got to go buy a modeler, that would be perfect for a lot of the every day things I do at the gun store. And then I got to replace the cork screw.! More money
So that will delay the Ferrari purchase again.

 

[Armored farmer]

I like the corkscrew too. Just right for hooking o-rings out of tight spots.
It always fun to use for its intended purpose too, pulling a cork!

 

[james huffaker]

I too use the corkscrew for its intended purpose. I carry a ranger. My perfect SAK would be a ranger, with Alox scales, with the awl placed like on the farmer and US knife, and a bail like on an US knife. Or an US knife so equipped. Like the old song, I can dream, can't I?

Regards, Jim
ETA: I regularly use everything on that knife, the Leatherman Wave II, that is also EDC, could functionally be replaced by a set of good pliers, save for that I like redundancy in my most used stuff. I without exception reach for the SAK, unless I need pliers.

 

[Boattale]

They don't make officer model anymore. All that one lacked to be the perfect SAK was losing parcel carrier - useless - for a phillips head.

 

[bannockburn]

hso

The Modeler was the first SAK I bought my son. It was an aptly named knife for him because it used it while making plastic model airplanes.

 

[badkarmamib]

I have an older (pre-parcel hook) Huntsman that I got when I was 12. At that age, I didn't see a use for a corkscrew, either. Then, I found one. It is the best thing ever for turning into a knotted shoelace, and stretching it to untie it. That knife has seen more use than all of my others combined.