91mm Swiss Army Knife Survival Mods PART 2 

A U.S. company called Tortoise gear makes a ferro rod called the FIREFLY that replaces the toothpick on both large & small SAK's. These mini ferro rods even have glow in the dark plastic end caps. An easy & excellent addition to your knife. I've switched out all my SAK's to this modification as fire is probably the most important survival tool that you can have with your Swiss Army Knife. There are several sites on RU-vid that have videos of the Firefly in action.

The amount of thought and effort you put into these mods is inspiring !

As always... great mods to tinker with. Thank you for all that you do!

You are the perfect example of thinking outside the box! Thanks for the videos.. keep up the great work :)

your videos are consistently informative and entertaining. thank you

I've been watching your video's for years keep up the inventive good work all the best from Glasgow Scotland :)

I love your videos. Keep innovating and keep kicking ass.

Innovative and inspirational as always! Love the channel!

So cool!! I have my own 65mm kind of "swiss army knife" modified from 14 to 22 functions, including a Swiss Army pen modified to fit inside :) Hopefully i will add a video of it soon. Great video, man!

Fun to see new stuff from you.

Dental floss, not for climbing . That made me laugh. Thanks! Thumbs up

Great tips thank you for sharing the different mods it makes sense to carry additional item's if possible.

I think you have made MacGyver jealous with your resourcefulness! Great mods!

Awesome video and ingenuity! Love it! Thanks so much.

The screwdriver mod was exactly what i was looking for! Thanks! I imagine you could carry a pen refill too, that way. Awesome!

You are amazingly creative! My kits are completely different because I normally avoid micro sized gear when I can, (I don't find it as effective as bigger resources which I can still normally edc), but you are always thinking outside the box! I am impressed by your ingenuity and resourcefullness. You have some very clever ideas. Have a great day.

This video gave me so much inspiration for my cybertool L, wow! Thank you very much!

That cordage trick is fucking genius, thank you for sharing.

Personally, I would use the bottle/cap opener as a signaling mirror. It has 2 nice flat polished surfaces and it is already attached to a large handle :) Thanks for the fantastic ideas!

you are completely insane with this stuff :o

Amazing ideas man well done👏👏

Great video thanks. Macgyver meets Jason Bourne.

Re: signalling mirrors: To save your cellidor scales, you can actually just use the polished reflection of the main blade as a signal. It works beautifully. BTW, your ideas are super creative AND your delivery is excellent. You gave a terrific sense of humor. Keep up the good work!

Love the paper clip/safety pin idea, I will certainly copy that.

Great video!

love to see a demonstration of youre ideas in the wilderness

Amazing very informative and creative

You sir are a grade A genius. Victorinox should definitely hire you.

I keep pressing the like button throughout the video! LOL

i'm 50 and have yet to need an emmergency fishing hook and signal mirror, corkscrew however :)

Hi I used to keep some homemade tinder ( cotton mixed in with petroleum jelly) in a sealed drinking straw in my kit, but after looking at this video it got me thinking. Instead of a drinking straw I used heat shrink tubing to which I heat sealed one end with a lighter and a pait of pliers, stuffed the tinder into the tube and then twisted this onto the corkscrew of my Swiss Army Knife. I then use a lighter to gently shrink it onto the corkscrew. It shrinks down enought to keep the tinder in place without the tubing stopping the corkscrew closing. To use it, you simply untwist off the corkscrew and cut open with your swiss army blade and then as usual fluff it up.

I keep a neodymium magnet attached to my knife I find I need it for testing . Could build a compass if you must. I found the 91 too heavy for edc the 51 is just right. Last one I bought from a thrift store $1 yellow on my keychain.

Victorinox should hire you to make better Rescue Tool they already have! With your additions, a new "Survival Tool" is born!

I think it's impractical to retrieve all that stuff from under the scale when you need it. I created a kit myself, with many items for when I go outdoors. It's easy to pull stuff and put them back and I don't need to disassemble any parts of my knife.

Your videos never get old. The ideas you come up with never stop amazing me. I've been wondering and thinking about how to carry braided fishing line, and hook for emergency use for some time now and you did it. I mean here in Louisiana it's not hard to find a fishing hole. I wonder if a small split shot sinker will fit inside with the ferro rod and stow away until needed? Now you have to figure out water treatment and you'll be golden here. Keep up the great work.

You are awesome👍🏻

Thank you!

Use braided fishing line and it is much less susceptible to shape memory. Also braided lines of the same diameter as monofilament are many times stronger, so this means it might also work for tying and binding things. Or you can choose a weaker strength that more closely matches the mono line and take advantage of the much narrower diameter of braid in the same strength and store it on the knife more easily.

the mini eyeglass screwdriver mod just ruined my justification for carrying a leatherman wave, fantastic idea!

good ideas, thank you

Thanks everyone.

Sempre top!!!

I'm in my 47th year of EDC'ing a Victorinox Swiss Champ SAK, so am quite familiar with their benefits, but I have to say that in five minutes of watching your video I have seen multiple, excellent inclusions that I've never before seen! Your ideas are original and outstanding in their practicality and I'm delighted to have found and subscribed to your suoerb channel. I also noted that you left the written instructions on screen long enough for your viewers to read them without having to rewind the video, very few people do this, so thank you for that, too.

For the fish hook you could probably use the"spider wire" style line vs the mono filiment you were using... Probably won't set a shape as easy as the mono.

I'm always impressed with your ability to go several levels deeper into each item and look past appearances to find or create extra features or improvements. Hmm, I have a 2 week international trip coming up in a few months. I have been wondering what items from your past efforts, or new items you might create/modify, that you would choose (and how you would assemble it) as a traveler support kit for tourists to keep at hand when they are away from home? Not thinking for any type wilderness survival or bugout event. Items that might be usefiul while walking around and needed on short-notice? Replenished later when more convenient. Maybe some items to be in checked bags while flying and put together after arrival? Threaded needles, buttons, cash, flat pack, tapes, lights, Mack knife, meds, tools, etc, etc, etc? Thanks in advance for your ideas!

MeZillch, I love how creative you and how neat all of your solutions are. I also like that you are continually creating content, where most youtubers seem to be resting on their creative laurels at this point. I have adopted a variation of your mini bic carry and I am hoping to add the lock pick set you showed in this knife, but I want to learn more about the non-paper clip part and the overall creation and usage of the set. Can you make a quick video that shows more detail on it? I feel like you covered everything else really well, just not that. Thanks, and keep creating content!

If you are sawing off a ferocineum Rod with a carbide saw, cut a piece off the saw and use it as the spark striker.

The cordage and fishing hooks were a great tip thanks, I fitted both on the hollow contures on the scales on my EvoGrip s17. Just a firefly in the toothpick slot and I'm ready for disaster.

You’ve obviously enjoyed designing these mods for your SAK? I won’t ever do that, but I have enjoyed watching this vid.Thank you.

Using Paracord for shoelaces will give you seven long strands of rope to use and You won't have to wrap dental floss around your knife. It can be used for sutures once sterilized, shelter building, fishing line, clothing repairs, the shoelaces left intact can be used for an improvised serpentine belt on a car on some models, can be used to make a tourniquet in an extreme emergency (tourniquets are a last resort because long term usage can result in a loss of a limb). They can also be used to saw through Paracord and duct tape if you are ever held against your will. (RU-vid how to escape zip ties or duct tape using shoe laces). Hope this helps!

Excellent mods - thanks for showing. As for your eyeglasses: Victorinox now offers a set of four different tools , flat-1.5mm, Philips000, Torx-T4 and SIM-Card-pin.

Thank you

Good stuff for the cyber tool

Dude that battery tester idea is effing genius

You’re really making these SAKs worthy of MacGyver. 👍🏻

Love the videos, but I cannot find that Bausch and Lomb lens anywhere! Does anyone know where I can find that exact style? I want to hide one in my Cybertool as well.

most glorious. mirror is FLY and tinderquick too, great method for that btw, i hope i can do both one each side; that stealth cordage is MAXIMUM GLORY but where does it wrap? under the scale? very very cool, sub earned.

Open the bottle opener. Take out the tweezers and put the plastic end in the half moon close the opener. Swing the tweezers to open and close. It can be use as a third hand or small vise or hemostats.

Second time's a charm.

With braided fishing lines being such a thin diameter, and getting upward of 50lbs-100lbs tensile strength, I don't know why survivalist and prepers and such still go for dental floss.

Victorinox also now offers other screwdriver sizes to fit the corkscrew. There is a tiny philips available, and there’s even just a straight blank tip to use as a SIM card ejector for your phone.

BATTERY TESTER IS GOAT.

Wouldn't the knife blade offer greater reflected surfaces to signal with?

Could the pen when the ink runs out be used for any thing... I've thought about using the non slip type of surface for skateboards etc and put on the scales for a Match striking surface and to improve grip.

I'm trying to think of survival situations where any of this might be useful.....washed up on deserted Island.....lone operator behind enemy lines? Its fun, but unless you are lone yachtsman, or special ops, I don't think it's ever going to be necessary. If anyone has had experience of using any of these little tools in real survival situations please reply. I've been in about 3 or 4 life and death scenarios....getting lost in mountains in a white out, with deep snow. ( nearly off a cliff)...falling off my boat at sea and a couple of road accidents ( one of which did not end well for me) and I wasn't looking for a knife or mini tool in any of those. However, I enjoy videos like these anyway and appreciate the ingenuity.

I have a serious question. When taking the scales off and putting them back on for mini survival kits, how do you keep them from getting really loose and rattling?

Have you heard of firecord by Equip2Endure? It has a built in orange fire waterproof strand line built in with the paracord for starting fires by Adam Francis.

My phone and watch work as signal mirrors, but I think you need something that's around 8" squared.

" 91mm for pocket and 58mm for keys " ? Not as far as my grandfather was concerned, he carried a Victorinox classic loose in his pocket as his only knife for years. And he used them for absolutely everything, I never even saw him use a utility knife. I don't do a keychain either so my Victorinox classics go loose in my pocket as well when I carry one.

Hold the fish hook in place with a drop of hot gun glue.

not shure if this was mentioned, but the cybertool lite actually has a magnifying glass in it and the light is super helpful screwing in dark computer cases:)

i think you could use a cd to make a signaling mirror too

If you need that mirror for a signal you are beyond whatever help that mirror would give you McGiver.

Both videos - parts one and two - are fascinating and require the minimum of manual dexterity to accomplish. It's also good that you stress how removing red scales should really only be done after softening that side of your Victorinox in hot (preferably boiling) water, to minimise cracking around the plastic rivet "receptacles" inside each handle scale. FYI, you can buy 2TB memory sticks that are the size of a wireless mouse "dongle" - which could be adapted to fit inside the early key-ring SAKs, which started life with a swing-out memory stick - with a huge 2GB capacity..! Moore's Law at work with Victorinox... These micro-memory sticks may not yet be as reliable as Kingston or SanDisc products - but it will only be a matter of time until you can store your entire musical, and photographic files on something the size of a standard USB plug. Then we'll see what effect such micro-miniaturization has on the sale of Altoids...

My experience with all these compacted survival kits is that in a pinch you lose half the stored material when trying to get at that one that you really need in that emergency. In all fairness...in an emergency...what is usually happening is that we tend to grab the nearest most convenient tool. Compacted kits are too complex to unravel....needs too much fine motor movements during the heat of the moment which are frequently happening at the most vulnerable moment such as during torrential rain...in the dark, that we tend to lose more tools in the process while trying to get at that one that you really need. And the next tool that we need unfortunately is lost due to our own neglect after the first action of getting the first tool. As a result, my emergency tools are spaced out and not concentrated in a small area that require fine motor movements like carefully peeling a sak scale. They are also stored in different containers that are easily handled and lodged in different places on my person as well as in the camp. At best in my opinion, these compacted survival tools are more novelty than true practical kits. Their use is more likely when one chooses to exercise them because your real 'go to kit' is about 20 meters away and you may want to show your grandkid something cool to have in a survival situation. Oh by the way...I still gave this video a like for ingenuity.

Rather than a mirror, how about polishing the knife body to a mirror finish?

How do you take the covers off

I bought a Sentinel with great expectations only to find that it has the lock of the blade on the wrong side. It works for left handed people which re less than 10% of the population. I should had stuck to my trusted Kershaw Chill.

@MeZillch Hope you're all right, it's just a longer break.

This is just a thought I had, couldn’t you use the knife as a signal mirror?

how many mm thick is the paracord?

I'm just curious, why do your hands shake while doing things.

فعلا ايقونة جميلة جدا يجب ان تكون داخل جعبة كل شخص في حياته اليومية اقطتي مجموعة مؤلفة من 8قطعة من سكين فيكتورينوكس وحتى سكين المطبخ والمس الرائع والفعال... فيكتورينوكس تسعدك على البقاء في الحالات الطارئة ولكن جزيل الشكر والتقدير .... 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧

You will never need any of that, you are too busy at home playing with your knives

What's that battery tester called???

He seems to using a second knife to open the knife with the gear inside. How does one peel off the scales if you don’t have 2 knives?

The mirror is good to have but the knife can be used as a reflector, anyways nice content

😀👍🏻

Can anyone link a video showing how to replace the White light on a penknife Victorinox with a Red light. I want to mod an onyx penknife to have a red light. I'm a great grandmother, anyone know how to do this?

do you have a miniature in full resolution?

Why do one need a hidden mini signal mirror on a tool thst is full of shiny blank blades?

Where can I find thoose batteries?

Я вот думаю а клинком подать световой сигнал не судьба!? 👆😂

Don't REMOVE the mirror to use it - you may drop it. Keep it in the scale and use it like that.

I have the ideal signal mirror a cellphone . Huge face I carry in a leather case and keep protective case so I never break by cell phone.

Why would you hide a signaling mirror in the scales of a Victorinox knife when the blade of the knife itself is an excellent, much larger mirror? Not only is it hard to get to inside the scales, but you risk ruining your knife when you need it most.

I have a survival wallet. In it, I have a credit card which I can use in an emergency situation for a hotel room and a 3 course meal...

Why not just mirror polish the main blade? You wouldn't need to remove the scale for signalling.

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Use Spider wire braided fishing line instead of dental floss