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Just when you think Victorinox has done everything possible to a Swiss Army Knife, they throw in a surprise. Now you may have a Swiss Army Knife that has a laser beam on it. The red laser allows for 70 foot visible range and 300 foot visible range in finish darkness. It has self-regulating built-in circuitry to concede for greatest or most complete or best possible output with minimum power usage.
We all recognise that Swiss Army stands for ingenuity and quality at a reasonable price. Victorinox is a name brand that you may trust as it has been around for 100 years. Swiss Army Brands have already mesmerized the public with all the utile features they use on their knives: saws, files, knives, pens, scissors, toothpick, tweezers, seatbelt cutters, bits, may openers, Phillips screwdriver tips, pliers, pins, orange peelers, hooks, clocks, reamers, LED lights, and such.
In the last few years digital readouts have become available that give readouts of temperature, altitude, time, and even an alarm clock. Models to check out are the Voyage and Traveller. Two years ago they came up with the built-in Swiss Memory stick in which you may transfer files to and from your computer by plugging it into your usb port. A Victorinox MP3 player with AM/FM radio has also joined their high tech lineup of pocketknives. Incredible. And you thought they just made quaint little red pocket knives.
The new for 2007 Swiss Memory by Victorinox Swiss Army Brands has come up with a multitool that has a laser beam that is actuated by a button on the body of the multitool and has the following features: a memory stick in either 1 GB or 2 GB, a keyring, and is airport friendly. Versions are likewise available that have the typical little knife blade, scissors, and nail file with screwdriver tip.
If you like old-fashioned Swiss Army Knives, you’re sure to love their high tech cousin: the Swiss Memory Laser. Imagine the wow factor when you pull this baby out of your pocket. Your friends will be astonished and think you are on the cutting edge of cool.
Victorinox Forester Swiss Army Knife
You already recognise when it comes to Victorinox’s reputation for quality multi-tools, but there are assorted more reasons for you to buy the Forester Swiss Army Knife. Reasons like the locking blade that’s effortlessly opened with one hand, or a built-in wire stripper. Not to mention multiple screwdrivers (one locking) and all the other bells and whistles you’ve come to suppose from a Swiss Army knife.
Product Features
- Blade Material:
- Handle:
- Lock Mechanism: lever
- Spring Assist:
- Blade Style:
- Blade Edge: serrated
- Blade Length:
- Blade Finish:
- Open Length:
- Sheath Included:
- Weight:
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- Manufacturer Warranty:
Victorinox Forester Swiss Army Knife Picture
Victorinox Forester Swiss Army Knife Picture
Victorinox Forester Swiss Army Knife Photo
Victorinox Forester Swiss Army Knife Picture
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
 SAK Forester makes starting lineup
By Robert Lindsey
SPECIFIC LIKES (along with a great deal of dimensions you might consider utile information, as measured on mine):
** Large sufficient to provide for a good, solid grip. Handle is 11/16″ thick; handle width, with knife blade opened, varies from 7/8″ to 1-1/16.” Width when closed varies slightly, up to a max. of 1-1/4.” (That would be rather a chunk to carry in your pocket each day, but that’s not my intent for it.)
** Matte black finish adds a heap of texture that’s missing out from the shiny handles on my SAK Recruit and Tinker knives, and this texture seems to heighten the grip. (Besides, it looks good on this knife.)
** Some outdoor sports folks – hunters in peculiar – feel that the less shiny stuff you carry afield, the better. If so, matte finish in all likelihood helps with that, too (until you open that mirror-like blade, of course).
** Blade is 3-3/8″, measured from tip to the nearest point on the handle. The blade spine is .096″ thick at the handle, tapering to .08″ at a point 1″ back from the tip. This knife was not meant for prying, so is not designed for it; but the thickness it has will have to surely withstand the pressure of numerous hard cutting.
** Blade as received was sharp sufficient to cut a finger, but not rather ready for smooth cutting through cardboard or medium-soft wood. A few minutes of honing and a good deal of stropping fixed that. I suppose this with any knife, and in fact get some gratification out of bettering the cut a little, so that’s not a negative for me.
** The cutting blade locks, as described. A welcome surprise for me, though, was that the screwdriver/bottle opener likewise locks. On my other SAKs (Swiss Army Knives), the only tool with which I’ve hurt myself, in a lot of use, has been the screwdriver/bottle opener on my SAK Tinker – which I later learned matched my son’s experience – so I had wished for a lock on that tool, also. (Bingo!)
** Also appreciated: the cutting blade and the screwdriver tip both have somewhat solid detents at when it comes to the 40% closed position, which is a welcome feature for someone who’s let a blade get away from him and snap closed from with regards to that position. With these tools, if you want to adjust your grip before completing the opening or closing motion, you’ve got a good stopping place for that.
** The cutting blade is centered in the handle. I may be the only guy in the world who cares in regards to this, but I would prefer that the cutting blade not be mounted to the far left or far right side of the handle. With numerous designs, that can’t be avoided; but with this apply there was an probability for the manufacturer to center the blade, and they did so.
** Furthermore, since the Forester’s cutting blade, when closed, doesn’t have to share that center slot with numerous other tool that folds toward it from the other end of the handle, it doesn’t have to drift left or right along it is length to make room for that other tool. Those contortions bother me in knives that must have their blades shaped that way – but the Forester is not one of them.
** Finally, the saw blade cuts well, within the range it is length supports, and seems to protest bending well. Don’t suppose it to cut very fast, because that can’t be; after all, a blade this size may have only so a good deal of teeth. Nor ought to you suppose a clean, polished surface where it cuts, because it’s not designed for that, either. It’s designed for a basic purpose: to remove material in order to sever something in a sensible size range; and on that it delivers as well as I think you could reasonably hope for in a package this size.
DISLIKES: None.
CONCLUSION: I have assorted Swiss Army knives, and have worked most of them pretty hard with no problems. I also have couple in reserve in case I demolish or lose one; but it looks like they’ll stay reasonably pristine until my son inherits them. The Forester, I’m already certain, has the same virtues as the others – plus some. My son will inherit it, too, but a lot less pristine; because this newcomer made the starting lineup right away.
8 of 8 humans found the following review helpful.
Lockblade design is a godsend
By Brook Plog
Victorinox has at last started to offer a highly-functional lockblade design in it is more prominent folding knives. Cutting out the clutter of redundant blades, nail files, magnifying glasses and other such non-essentials, the Forester knife is left with a reasonably long, very sharp single useble blade, a little saw, a corkscrew, awl, may opener, bottle opener, and slotted screwdriver (and, of course, the ubiquitous toothpick and tweezers, which I might add are handier than you would think). The large, articulated handle grips with resolute determination in your hand and the locking blade ensures it won’t cost you your fingers by accidently closing for the duration of use. The long straight blade is, in my opinion, more utile for daily camping & hiking – slicing food, general cutting, whittling, etc., than the shorter commonly curved blades of most sport knives (most of which are derived from hunting knife designs). Unless you’re rock climbing or river rafting (for which a single-hand operated opening blade would be prefered), this is in all likelihood all the knife you’ll ever need on the trail. The Forester is a trusty no-nonsense outdoor companion.
6 of 8 humans found the following review helpful.
Forestor – Another perfective SAK from Victorinox!!
By A. Chopra
The Victorinox Forester was my introductory SAK. I liked the black color as it looked dissimilar from the regular dark red ones (even cheap “Made in China” comes in the same color). I have used this SAK in the worst of times, in particular when I required the professional tools to deal with the problem. I ought to add that the quality of the Victorinox have always astonished me, because I have never seen any single piece of tool taking so much abuse and still working as new. People like me (those who are using SAKs for years) will agree that even after five years of use and abuse the huge locking still cuts like the new one, the sharpness of wood-saw, the cork-screw, and the may opener just functions without flaw.
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