Secret tools in Swiss Army Knives (SAK Hacks) 

My Swiss Champ predates the parcel hook and the pin. It has lived in my pocket nearly every day for 37 years and has saved my bacon many many times.

A man enthusiastically talking about the subject of his passion. What a sight, honestly! And I also appreciated that your knife seems to be super heavily used (as it should be). Being the first time viewer of your channel, I'm genuinely charmed.

Nice video! I bought one in Switserland when I was 15 years old. Now, over 30 years later, it still works well.

Thank you for your video. I have carried different SAK's for over 30 years. They are excellent and non threatening. Thanks again. Regards from Durban, South Africa

Since I was a small boy, I have owned so many knives amd pocket knives. They are invaluable tools and I carry one all the time and find I use one several times a day. For years and years, I never got round to buying into the hype of the Swiss Army Knife. I have multi tools and many small pocket tools that go into pouches or bags and tins. Then, a few years ago, I bought my son his first knife; a Hunter Swiss Army Knife. I was very impressed and he uses it still to this day, on a daily basis. Somehow, I still failed to buy myself one!! Then, FINALLY early this year, aged 60, I bought the latest version of the Hunter and at the same time, discovererd Felix!! What a revelation! I am now a huge fan and love the qualty and utility of these knives. I have added simple extras to mine, such as a pin, as it didn't come with one, but had the hole. I also bought a screwdriver for the corkscrew, and brilliantly, a great little flat ferro rod, made especially to fit in the tooth pick slot, as I also do a bit of bushcraft and always need to be able to spark up a fire. I already own a clever little Swiss Card, bought for me as present, many years ago, by a dear friend, and that has the biro and a tooth pick anyway, but I now want to change the scales on my knife, so I can add a biro back into the knife itself. Great tools and I am a genuine convert. What a nice clear video you have made and what a beautiful place you live! Thanks. 😊

Love the idea of the dressmaker's pin, will search through my wife's sewing kit for one to replace the one in my Fieldmaster! Great video, love your natural enthusiam.

Great tip with the plastic head pin and the sides with pen hole.

The little pin can also be bent on one of the can opener tools to turn it into a fishhook for fishing..

I like the yellow dayglow plus scales !

I have owned my Swiss Cybertool for 15ish years and I JUST found out there is a pin under the corkscrew thanks to you. Thank you!

Awesome job. Enjoyed your enthusiasm and information

Excellent video information. My SAK is the Huntsman. Suggestion, please in your future videos eliminate background music. We came to hear you, yet to do that we must fight the music. Many viewers have hearing difficulties, the background music quickly becomes very annoying and intrusive. Thus, they must concentrate on your voice while at the same time concentrate on attempting to tune out the music. Very frustrating.

I just found your channel and I really enjoy it! Look it forward to a lot more content!

Thanks for the modding tips. It looks like there are other slots that could be accessed, as well, by cutting through to them. And I hadn't before seen the idea of remove the scale to perform helpful maintenance on the SAK. Great idea.

When the thumbnail popped up in my feed I thought for a minute that it was one of Felix's videos! I did put plus scales on my 33 year old Huntsman recently, and with properly cleaning and lubrication it is like new (apart from so much blade having been sharpened away!) Great video, sharing the SAK love.

Love the yellow scales!

Swiss army knifes are the best.

GREAT PRESENTATION!! Please show us more everyday tools that are your favorites.

Brilliant! I'm off to treat my faithful old SAK to some new scales and a pen. I've already got the pin & little screwdriver and agree that they both come in jolly handy!

I have several of these knives. Love them. My Dad was the first person to have one, many years ago, in the fifties. He had found them when living in Switzerland in the late forties. He loved the ones with lots of attachments. Really enjoyed this video! Unfortunately all my knives are too old to have the pin and biro! Cheers from Nova Scotia.

That was awesome. Thank you!

Thanks for the video! That was exactly what I searched for. I'll update my knife now with those new usefull extras.

Brilliant mod kit bro!

Very useful, thank you for this video!

Great video thanks a lot ❤ I love all my Victorinox!

Great and informative video.

Thank you Hugh, ive just found the pin in my SAK, i never knew it was in there👍👍

A remarkable video indeed, brimming with brilliance. Might I gently suggest cleaning the tools for added grandeur? Eagerly anticipating the next video!

Good video thanks

Awesome ❤

Thank you for the clear demo of how to change the covers. My Champ came with red. But that yellow would be better for visibility purposes. I'm a fan of the Victorinox Swiss Army Knives, and ever since I was able to buy the first Champ, I have kept upgrading to the newer version. I love them. My favorite tools are the scissors first, then the rest. The pliers were a great addition. The Phillips screw driver and tweezers have always been a go-to tools. My first knife was very useful, and the very first thing I cut was my thumb, after which I learned to respect it.

Thanks

I enjoyed your video 💜

Great tutorial. Someone needs to rototill those weeds behind you. None of mine have the hole in the Awl or the pin.

Funny, I've just put plus scales on two of mine recently, one green and one yellow too 😀. SAKS are amazing useful. Great video. 👍

My deepest warmest regards

You can't go wrong with a Swiss Army Knife. One more tip if you want to upgrade/replace scales, there's a UK ebay seller who sells replacement scales with a pocket clip attached. The clip is screwed in and then glued on to the back scale, the one with the space for the screwdriver or corkscrew, on the opposite end, and done so well that they look like they came from the factory with the clip on, also very secure. He offers a variety of sizes and colours of pocket clip, as well as a variety of scale colours. Amazingly the price is pretty much the same as what you'd pay for just the scales without the pocket clip, I think I only paid £12 with free p&p for my black plus scales, with matching black pocket clip.

The tweezers can be inserted and pushed into the center hole of a non key interior door knob to unlock and open the door your little one just trapped themselves inside. (USA)

Great video buddy. I do enjoy watching a fellow SAK enthusiast 😁 I put Micarta scales in the compact and Ranger huge upgrade to the original scales, much less slippery however they don’t have the pin slot which is not a huge deal for me. I made a snake knot lanyard with a dressmaker’s pin inside using bank line for my Compact. Works surprisingly well and holds the pin very securely. The Leatherman small nylon pouch is perfect for a 2 layer 91mm SAK with a little effort originally. May even stretch to a 3 layer.

I was sceptical when I startet the video. But you surprised me: There are still new handy things to know about SAKs.

Awesome

you can warm the new scales in hot water, then they will fit over the studs. the pen fits tightly inside the corkscrew for writing, where as elsewhere its still can move slightly.

The dressmaker’s pin is a great idea. It should also be a bit easier to use (and not lose!).

I would love more videos about tools! It is always great to learn what is useful and practical :-)

Thanks great to know the “scales” are replaceable, I somehow lost one of my sides, and I couldn’t get it over my heart to just chuck it away, thanks again really appreciate it, Keep well Ciao ciao

Awesome class thanks, I acquired an older one at a yard sale and am going to upgrade it. Here in Florida were I live ,we can open carry a knife or sword of any length but need a permit if concealed a little crazy I guess, and of course all none felons can carry concealed guns which a lot of us do especially we veterans.

👍 I love my Victorinox SAKs. I have a Spartan for in town carry and a Huntsman for when I am in the countryside. One or the other is with me every day. I also place the Ultra scales on my knives and the Yellow color is my choice as well. Thank you for this video.

Una cuchilla de trabajo sin duda. Todas las que salen en vídeos están limpias, excepto estas.

You can also add a small neodymium magnet to the knife. A very small one fits into the hook, a slightly bigger one can be stored near the base of the corkscrew (your big red pin head would get in the way though).

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Lovely presentation. Even though I knew about the option of changing to plus scales, your video was a nice distraction on a Saturday afternoon. Like and subscription is done.

Happy Sunday Hugh & Fiona from Steve in Tel Aviv, Israel, an ex-London born & bred Plonker who escaped from perfidious Albion in 1968 (during the time of the 1960's great white flight out of South East London). I am a lifelong Swiss Army Knife aficionado & have amassed over 250 Victorinox & 40 Wenger & 5 Swiss Buck Wengers (so far in my collection - but most of my SAK's are decorative scaled 58mm Classics / SD's and year end or other special collectables rather than EDC SAK's) At age 8 an uncle gave me a 58mm Red Classic for my keychain, at 10 years I bought with my saved up pocket money a red economy (no scale tools) my first 84mm Bantam & and only at age 16 did I buy a non-SAK knife for pocket carry, a Buck 110 folding hunter (It was a UK legal carry back then unlike now in 2023). I still have several SAK's over 45 years old & a number of 25 to 35+ years old well used EDC SAK's of all sizes as well as new in box / unused collectables of 20, 30 & 40+ years old. My daily carry always contains at least one SAK - my default keyring SAK, currently a SilverTech scaled 58mm Midnite Manager (I have used 58mm Midnite Mini-Champs too) & a 2nd larger bladed knife and if it is a SAK my number one preference is the 91mm Huntsman or a 91mm Compact or a 91mm Explorer or a EvoGrip S14, S17 or S18 ( lock blade, assisted opening, axis lock knifes, OTF knives are are all legal in Israel there is no blade length limitation either) or 93mm Pioneer X or Farmer X or a 111mm Nomad/Picnicker or Forester or a non SAK such as a Kershaw assisted opening knife with a 3" to 3.5" blade, like wise a 3" to 3.5" Civivi Flipper knife , a Buck 110 or 112 or a Case XX large Copperlock clip point knife. I use all manner & size of SAK's around the house for cutting & craft work. I have enjoyed collecting & using SAK's for 64 years now, I don't feel strange going out without a watch (got my phone for that) but without a SAK in my pocket I feel naked! ATB, Steve in Tel Aviv.

I have had my swiss champ for about 15 years by now and i allways carry it on me in the victorinox beltpouch.

The little tweezers is the first thing to fall out and get lost. finally you've found a useful function for the corkscrew tool. I usually cut it off.

You inspired my gf and I to go SAK shopping:D I'm getting a Ranger and they're getting a Swiss Tool X! We're very excited! Also Felix Immler is a freaking genius 😐

I like the stayglow (glow in the dark) scales.

You may be able to cut the pen notch on regular scales

I’m 66 and we regularly took knives into school for dinner time fun including sheaf knives. I still have plenty UK Legal carry knives that are always in my pockets

Another WoW moment watching your vids. I have a small one (Quiet at the back there) and it has a hole for a pin!!! Now to find a pin

Do you think you can fit a bit of cut-down emergency microfiber cloth somewhere under one or two of those tools? I used to have one of these when I was a kid and I saw the Huntsman on sale for only 28 dollars on Amazon and decided it's time to go back to the basics and get one of these again. I'm thinking of customizing mine a lot for fun.

Your pin seems way better than the original.

My huntsman and my camper both have plus scales, mini screwdrivers, and custom made lanyards. So does my explorer.

Gday all, as an Aussie i shoudnt be making fun of accents. but also as an Aussie have too. its a dilemma. when you first started talking about the PIN on the swiss army knife, the only word i kept hearing was PEN. just poking fun, thx for the video and a bunch of info i never knew. CHEERS.

The scales can actually be removed using the toothpick!

A few years ago I almost got fined and or arrested in the UK after I had bought myself a Seagull outboard motor. The reason was that I was carrying a non locking blunt nose sailor's or boat utility 3" knife. The problem apparently was in the locking poker one uses to undo knots that was part of the boat knife. I needed it to tie the motor to the crate.

I have the huntsman Swiss Army knife and I’m waiting for my + scale in forest green to come in the mail

I want to get a sak so bad, i have s gerber multitool amd only see weher i woukd miss the needle nose pliers. I dint know which sak to get

Crackng video!

Fortunately we do not have the restrictions on us as you do in the UK, so I always have a couple of blades with me for various uses. I would add the small ferro rod to any SAK (takes practice to use) as you can never carry too many of these useful things on you.

Would you tell us the name of the model of the knife used in this demonstration?

Your excellent tips gave me good ideas for modifying my own SAKs. A suggestion: at 2 minutes 20 seconds, your introduction was a bit too long, and would have lost a lot of younger viewers who lack the attention span of us middle-aged geezers. You also risk losing viewers who figure that sometimes the reason people take a long time to get to the point is because they don’t have much of a point in the first place. However, your points and suggestions were very good ones, so thank you for producing this video.

I like mine. I have 3

what knife did you use in this episode? 😊 5:45

You can screw the mini screwdriver in backwards

Bought a Swiss army knife for my nephew when I was in Europe decades ago - don't know what I was thinking to not buy one for myself.

Now, I have to get my two and check for the pin and see if I have the slot for the pen.

Where can you not have Swiss Army knife?

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Check put Nikgyver too

🆗 Thanks,clean up . Nice job. 9:55 JsP^_^

Why do you dry it with a hair dryer and then hit it with Water Displacement formula 40?

Remember WD40 is not not not a lubricant. It was invented as a water displacement WD liquid. There was some good spray liquid occurred in a blue can with bright yellow markings was that the WD40 could have its original and best use----- water displacement, folks.

What is the english word used in the video for PEN? In the USA, we call it a pen, but Felix and you used a different work and B??? As for what else I want to know... What meals can you fix "in season", 95-100% of everything coming from the garden? In the modern world, it is so easy to buy and cook stuff which was raised, grown half way around the world, and not eat "in season" food or grown at home and canned, frozen, dried...and then pulled out as needed.

Push rod fir a crack pipe ?

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Nice video, but I wouldn't use WD40 on a knife that I'm going to use for cutting food.

My British equivalent is all stainless - and has a hammer. This is so that you can not only remove nails from horses hooves but put them back. I am not joking, present from a daughter, she always hits the nail on the head for presents.

the locking blade is a safety feature and ridiculous to ban it.

A yellow swiss army knife? Thats just not right.

Why, oh-PLEASE-tell-me- WHY, do so many people refer to a SLOT HEAD screwdriver as a FLATHEAD screwdriver?? They will drive a dome-headed screw just as well as a flat-headed screw as long as they both are slot headed, but they will not drive a Phillips screw at all well even if it has a flat head as many, if not most, do. WHY, WHY, WHY?

Your knives are pretty dirty. Best to use an old toothbrush.

Glad you cleaned it :) Nice video mate. But what i find most interesting is, that @FelixImmler is referred all over YT but has only got slightliy over 100k subs himself. Nice tip with the screwdriver in the tool slot. Thank you!