GolF Club

A civilized and very useful tool (2008-08-01)
Few, if any, of us will ever scale a fish, gut a deer, skin a bear, or cut off our own arm to get out of a bind. A least on a daily basis. But we will use this tool. (If you need to live in the wild, or on the edge, get something else!)

I've carried this model every day for more than ten years. It is so small I typically don't know I have it with me. I've used it nearly every day. Whereever I am, and whatever I'm doing, it's the first tool I reach for. Nine time out of ten, it gets the job done.

Ok, I'm a classic "white-collar" worker (a lawyer). But I can do most everything I need a tool for with the Rambler. And it's durable. In ten years I had two! The first is still usable and resides in my desk drawer so I don't have to stand up to get one. I use them that much.

But be careful. They don't help you board airplanes, or get into federal courthouses. Used as a weapon they could inflict a pretty severe "paper cut." But it would be hard to get more "bang for the buck."

Handy little pocket knife (2008-03-25)
My husband loves this little pocket knife. It has tweezers and a toothpick on opposite ends! Also the scissors are very nice and sharp.

swiss army rambler (2008-01-12)
This is the 2nd Rambler my husband has had. He thinks he can't live without it. He carries it at all times and uses it constantly. This is his "McGiver" tool!

All essentials included, and very portable! (2007-10-28)
At almost the same form factor as the Classic, it includes two more extremely useful tools: a Philips screwdriver and a bottle opener. With these two additions, it provides essentially all the tools I would ever need, yet it is so small that I can carry it around with my keys all the time. Highly recommended!

Perfect little tool (2007-08-29)
I've given countless SAK's as gifts, and people always say the same thing: "at first, i didn't think much of it, but now that i've carried it for a few days, i can't live without it". I think this is the best SAK model for everyday carrying because it's small, but it has the scissors (great for hangnails and removing strings from clothes, among other things) and the invaluable bottle opener/phillips screwdriver blade. If you're a beer drinker, I don't need to say any more. Even if you're not, though, it's the screwdriver that's really handy -- I just used it this past weekend to remove the CD drive from my computer even though i had my regular tool set available because i didn't have a small enough driver with a magnetic tip. Probably the biggest use for this knife, though, is fixing toys for my kids. Every toy seems to have a tiny phillips screw holding the battery compartment shut, so carrying a tiny phillips screwdriver around is just SOOOOO handy for any daddy. You can get other models with a cuticle tool, orange peeler, etc. but I don't think they're useful enough to justify the added cost or bulk, unless you happen to eat a lot of oranges or something. And don't bother with the midnight models, the light is too dim to be useful in anything but total blackness. Get the Rambler, it's perfect.