Comments on: Wenger’s Freaky (Vaporware?) Knife and The New (Real) EVO http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:17:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Daniel Rutter http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/#comment-692 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:31:30 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/#comment-692 Whoops - last link should be to <a href="http://www.dansdata.com/quickshot007.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Whoops - last link should be to here.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/#comment-691 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:30:22 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/#comment-691 Given that the basic design of the knives is modular, it's easy enough for them to just make longer pins and stick all of the bits together. The result, of course, really is just one for the collectors and store displays; it's completely impossible to use it unless it comes apart somehow. Note that there are actually two "Swiss Army" manufacturers - Wenger, who made this thing, and Victorinox. I talk a bit about the difference in <a href="http://www.dansdata.com/mlptc.htm" rel="nofollow">this review</a>. Victorinox previously pushed the limits of how thick one of these things can be and still be usable with the <a href="http://www.swiss-knife.com/asp/detail.asp?lan=EN&#38;code=1.6795.XLT&#38;shop=SK" rel="nofollow">XLT</a>, which even then they admitted was really just for collectors, and then the even sillier <a href="http://www.artm-friends.at/rm/swissknives/swissknives-Seiten/Bild12.html" rel="nofollow">XXLT</a>. I think <a href="http://www.swiss-knife.com/asp/detail.asp?lan=EN&#38;code=1.6795.XAVT&#38;shop=SK" rel="nofollow">this</a> <a href="http://www.swissmade.com/en/web/index.php?id=1069" rel="nofollow">is</a> what the kids are buying instead of the XLT these days. (No endorsement of any stores is implied, by the way - I'd link to Victorinox's own pages about these things, but their site's a Flash nightmare.) If American readers are wondering what the thick shiny solid part in the middle of the XXLT is, by the way, it's a cigarette lighter. American Swiss Army knives don't have them, I think because there's no child guard on the thing so it's not legal to sell there (though you can, of course, import your own). I reviewed the basic "SwissFlame" lighter-knife <a href="quickshot007.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Given that the basic design of the knives is modular, it’s easy enough for them to just make longer pins and stick all of the bits together. The result, of course, really is just one for the collectors and store displays; it’s completely impossible to use it unless it comes apart somehow.

Note that there are actually two “Swiss Army” manufacturers - Wenger, who made this thing, and Victorinox. I talk a bit about the difference in this review. Victorinox previously pushed the limits of how thick one of these things can be and still be usable with the XLT, which even then they admitted was really just for collectors, and then the even sillier XXLT. I think this is what the kids are buying instead of the XLT these days.

(No endorsement of any stores is implied, by the way - I’d link to Victorinox’s own pages about these things, but their site’s a Flash nightmare.)

If American readers are wondering what the thick shiny solid part in the middle of the XXLT is, by the way, it’s a cigarette lighter. American Swiss Army knives don’t have them, I think because there’s no child guard on the thing so it’s not legal to sell there (though you can, of course, import your own). I reviewed the basic “SwissFlame” lighter-knife here.

]]> by: Todd Jensen http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/#comment-685 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:31:21 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/26/wengers-freaky-vaporware-knife-and-the-new-real-evo/#comment-685 I read somewhere -- can't remember where -- that this knife is a one-off demo showcase that displays the various tools the company can put into a knife and not a product that will be mass-produced. I read somewhere — can’t remember where — that this knife is a one-off demo showcase that displays the various tools the company can put into a knife and not a product that will be mass-produced.

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