I’m convinced only executives and ladies use them to manicure their nails!

My favorite pocket knife is a blade locking spring assisted 4” half serrated drop point but I managed to break my last one so I started using a stupid Swiss Army knife. Nearly cut my finger off and I felt like a pussy using it.

I'd venture a guess and say you tried to use it as if it was a modern partially serrated, not pocket friendly 4 inches, spring assisted locking knife?

That's on you buddy. It's a small, lightweight, non-locking knife, the polar opposite!

i carry both, a Swiss army knife and a multi-tool. works for me.

Swiss Amy, lock blade (Buck or SOG usually) and an SOG multitool are all very often on me at any one time. Different tools for different jobs. But you will never get my 30 year old Swiss Army knife out of my clutches.

You use it to tactically slice bread, or what?



I used to carry a Buck Ghost Rider, I miss it just thinking about it. Now I also find out they're discontinued.
So now I mostly carry a Swiss Army Knife, one the ones with a locking thing. It's ok, the tweezers see more use than the actual blade.

there are locking swiss army knives, i have a workchamp and use it virtually every day for one tool or another.

knife injuries are almost always your own fault, don't use a folding blade for tasks that could cause the blade to snap off, that is too much force on the blade. use a fixed blade for that.

Carry a AK47 knife everyday. Used it once unopened to hit an uncooperative combative guy in the ribs. Took the fight right out of him.

My son was badgering us for ages for a Swiss Army knife. My wife said no cos he'd slice himself, I said "don't be daft woman, he's a sensible young man, it's a Swiss Army knife, not a Machete."
We got him one for Christmas.
He cut himself four seconds after opening the box.

Little git.

Swiss Army knives are a compromise.

Nothing in a Swiss Army knife is as good as its specialized and dedicated counterpart. Nobody reaches for a Swiss Army knife to open a bottle when a proper bottle opener is next to it. When a branch needs to be sawed off a tree, no woodsman prefers a Swiss Army knife.

You can't blame a Swiss Army knife for being what it is.

I carry both also. The swiss knife is good for various things as are the many tools on it but nothing relaces a fixed or locking 4" for just cutting things.

A big chunky Leatherman is my pocketknife of choice.

It's kind of like guns - what's the best one? The one you HAVE on you.

That's why my Swiss Army knife gets the most use.

I also have this cheapo little tool set in it's own plastic box in a kitchen drawer. I'd never do any serious wrenching with it, but for 90% of household needs that's what I reach for rather than making a special trip for my "real" tools.

Again, all about "what's already 'on me'"...

I've carried a Victorinox Swiss Champ for nearly 25 years now. The same one actually, it's still good as new.

I do like my SwissCard Classic ...

I can open letters, file my nails, twist a small screw, pluck a few unwanted hairs, cut off a broken nail, pick my teeth and sign a check with it.

SOG knifes are terrible. We broke a number of them in Africa. Just not cut out for heavy use.

I love mine, as well as both multitools. Especially the Switchplier. I'm sure my everyday use wouldn't be considered heavy by any means.

For heavy use you need a fixed blade anyways. No folding knife is going to hold up to heavy continuous use.

I also carry a Swiss army knife, albeit just the small Classic. It comes in handy for little things here and there or when I'm too lazy to get a proper tool. I also have the Swisscard classic, which I bought as sort of a novelty when I was in Switzerland. The only tool I don't like in it is the pen because once you run out of ink, well, it's useless.

I did have a Gerber but years ago I realized that I had it in my carry on bag at TSA and I didn't have time to get it checked into my luggage, so rather than let TSA have it and bring it home to their kids or personal use, I threw it away. Heartbreaking. I now have a silly Skeletool knock-off instead, but it was free.


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Just like Billzilla, my choice is a Leatherman multi-tool.. specifically the Surge.

Linebacker, my wife tried to get on a plane with that Swisscard and the TSA took the little knife (emergency blade (letter opener).

Many were fixed blades, but even the folding knives didn't break at the joint, but up toward the front. I just wasn't impressed with them.