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Originally Posted by Platapus
A few years ago I visited a friend who was working for a TLA. In his office I saw him stabbing at packing boxes with a ball point pen trying to cut the tape.
I walked over to him and handed him my swiss army knife. His eyes got wide "you can't have that in this building!"
What? A swiss army knife? I have been carrying a swiss army knife since I was 8 years old.
Guess I am violating federal law by packing a weapon of mass destruction to work.
This is the one I carry every day
http://www.swissarmy.com/MultiTools/...product=54854&
I have others that I carry for other occasions.
http://www.emersonknives.com/ekEK_Karambit.php |
It's surprising how some people get a bit shifty if you use your swiss knife in the office (or wherever at work) - most commonly used by me for cutting open rolls of AO paper for the plotters... "you can't use that here, it's a knife! They're dangerous."
Safer than the blunt scalpel in the stationary cupboard, any day of the week.
The closest to mine (from your first link) is this:
http://www.swissarmy.com/MultiTools/...product=54821& but without the hook thing. It's a bit battered now: the spring broke on the scissors many years ago, both the toothpick and tweezers are missing, the end of the file point broke off, the reamer broke through the sewing eye and the key-ring and the pressed metal badge fell out.... and finally I had to epoxy bond the plastic scales at both ends to hold them in place.
I have thought about replacing it with a new one, this thread made me check out a few sites, but it's such a faithful old friend it hardly seems fair to cast it aside for a younger model
