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Victorinox® Bantam™: Review
http://www.eknifeworks.com/webapp/e....y=0&list=10&range=1&order=Default&SKU=V53941
•Large blade
•Keyring
•Cap lifter with can opener, screwdriver and wire stripper
•Toothpick
•Tweezers
•3-1/4" closed
•Stainless steel blade and tools
•Red composition handle
$10.99 plus shipping and handling.
I am not affiliated with SMKW, just I do not have means to post a picture, and being quite honest, this is where mine was purchased.
Short version: It works.
I was asked to check out this knife to fit some needs and niches.
Just something Political Correct for a work place, be it a lady or gent.
Something to have in a vehicle, office desk, gift to fit a price point, even loaner when the concerns of someone not being a “knife person” wants to borrow a knife and having an option instead of loaning a quality knife.
Blade is the typical SAK spear, and was sharp out of the box.
It has “walk-n-talk”. Nail niche is fine and I had no problem, nor did ladies with nails or kids with smaller fingers and nails.
Great for office lunches, and capable of spreading peanut butter, cheese spread, cutting cheese, apples, other fruit and veggies, slicing meat…and not raising eyebrows in some workplaces.
Cap lifter with can opener, screwdriver and wire stripper
This “feature” snaps into a halfway position, and then snaps into open position.
You know where this blade is – so to speak.
Yes it works really well on cans! Screwdriver cap lifter, and wire stripper, just work, as all SAKs do.
Toothpick is nice and big, as are the tweezers. I like how strong and positive these tweezers are.
Nice key ring.
I have used mine to fix food in the kitchen, whittle a slingshot, sharpen pencils and crayons and who knows what else.
I have just used some nice cardboard to touch up my blade, by pulling the edge away; I might have used an ice pick as a steel once, honestly not sure if that was my knife, or a friend’s Bantam also checking one out.
Screwdriver has pulled staples, I mean the heavy ones used on targets, and where home insulation is “ker-chunked” into place.
Removed, and installed a heater hose, opened cans, lifted bottle caps…
Tweezers have removed splinters, ticks, and stinger from a bee sting.
Toothpick, it was handy to punch receiver pins from a shotgun, and it works as intended too.
At this price, one cannot afford to not have one handy, be it EDC for PC workplace, in the vehicle, backpack at College, in a emergency bag, or in a diaper bag/ kids “to keep me from going nuts” bag.
You know the bag with crackers, peanut butter, and whatever else to keep a kid’s mouth full and hands busy – they tend to not fuss if mouth is full and hands busy.
The simple pull through Rapala and similar ceramic sharpeners, are not big, expensive, or hard to use and suggested to have in the desk drawer or vehicle to maintain.
Regards,
Steve
http://www.eknifeworks.com/webapp/e....y=0&list=10&range=1&order=Default&SKU=V53941
•Large blade
•Keyring
•Cap lifter with can opener, screwdriver and wire stripper
•Toothpick
•Tweezers
•3-1/4" closed
•Stainless steel blade and tools
•Red composition handle
$10.99 plus shipping and handling.
I am not affiliated with SMKW, just I do not have means to post a picture, and being quite honest, this is where mine was purchased.
Short version: It works.
I was asked to check out this knife to fit some needs and niches.
Just something Political Correct for a work place, be it a lady or gent.
Something to have in a vehicle, office desk, gift to fit a price point, even loaner when the concerns of someone not being a “knife person” wants to borrow a knife and having an option instead of loaning a quality knife.
Blade is the typical SAK spear, and was sharp out of the box.
It has “walk-n-talk”. Nail niche is fine and I had no problem, nor did ladies with nails or kids with smaller fingers and nails.
Great for office lunches, and capable of spreading peanut butter, cheese spread, cutting cheese, apples, other fruit and veggies, slicing meat…and not raising eyebrows in some workplaces.
Cap lifter with can opener, screwdriver and wire stripper
This “feature” snaps into a halfway position, and then snaps into open position.
You know where this blade is – so to speak.
Yes it works really well on cans! Screwdriver cap lifter, and wire stripper, just work, as all SAKs do.
Toothpick is nice and big, as are the tweezers. I like how strong and positive these tweezers are.
Nice key ring.
I have used mine to fix food in the kitchen, whittle a slingshot, sharpen pencils and crayons and who knows what else.
I have just used some nice cardboard to touch up my blade, by pulling the edge away; I might have used an ice pick as a steel once, honestly not sure if that was my knife, or a friend’s Bantam also checking one out.
Screwdriver has pulled staples, I mean the heavy ones used on targets, and where home insulation is “ker-chunked” into place.
Removed, and installed a heater hose, opened cans, lifted bottle caps…
Tweezers have removed splinters, ticks, and stinger from a bee sting.
Toothpick, it was handy to punch receiver pins from a shotgun, and it works as intended too.
At this price, one cannot afford to not have one handy, be it EDC for PC workplace, in the vehicle, backpack at College, in a emergency bag, or in a diaper bag/ kids “to keep me from going nuts” bag.
You know the bag with crackers, peanut butter, and whatever else to keep a kid’s mouth full and hands busy – they tend to not fuss if mouth is full and hands busy.
The simple pull through Rapala and similar ceramic sharpeners, are not big, expensive, or hard to use and suggested to have in the desk drawer or vehicle to maintain.
Regards,
Steve
