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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: INDIA
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Delhi / Worcestershire, England
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How else do you peel mangoes, get into tin cans, open beer bottles, unscrew plugs to check they're wired okay and cut your fingernails - with your bare teeth maybe?
![]() I always carry my Victorinox Climber which gets a lot of use both at home and abroad. After all, you never know when you might need a corkscrew in an emergency! |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: New Delhi & Himachal Pradesh (Shimla)
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hould be easily available in most big departmental stres...if i rememebr correctly i ahve seen in it in few book shops as well..
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: noida
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I was lucky...!
Hiya...
Before I left for my last trek to Panwalikantha, I had gone to the CSD Canteen to see if I could find a raincoat I might like to carry along (I was leaving a couple of hours later)... Well... I couldn't find the Raincoat I wanted (picked one up elsewhere from the market) but wonder of wonders... I saw the Victorinox brand of the Swiss Army Knife at one of the counters... And picked it up immediately... A tremendous discount for the 6-7 pull-out SAK... And a t-shirt free to go with it...!!! Just one hitch - though extremely handy, it's difficult for a person who keeps his/her nails extremely short to pull out the blessed thingies and put them to good use...! Cheers...!!! |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: noida
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Just one point of view...
I feel that the Swiss Army Knife is actually just one of the most successfully marketed products, albeit, of extremely limited utility... I personally feel that the SAK is more suitable as a multi-utility tool kit for usage as part of the city life... When you are out in the woods, or trekking in the mountains, what do you need a screwdriver or the sundry other tools popping out of it, for...??? Just a sharp-edged knife with a strong handle (non-foldable) is much more useful for cutting vegetables, chopping wooden branches for starting a fire, digging up the earth, cutting through ice, protection against possible attack from the wild animals, cutting up potential food items (the moving kind) and what not... I can go on & on... I do have a SAK but feel that a long sharp-edged knife with a strong handle is more practical and useful when you really need it for yourself and not to show it off to others...! Cheers...! |
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Delhi / Worcestershire, England
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