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Using the awl tool on a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife to scribe lines during a woodworking project... because I had the knife with me but not a pencil.
I recently got this from a seller on eBay. Thanks to my Family at the web forum MultiTool.org , I now know about the greatness that is SwissTool. It came with a leather sheath, mini 1/4" ratchet driver, extension and bit kit.
When my daughter came to see me yesterday she gave me a Fathers' Day card which I kept to open today – my younger son gave me a card when I took his dog for a walk this morning and I got a message from my elder son too 😀
In spite of our tiredness, we managed to walk down to church for the 9.30am service - and back again afterwards! On the way home, I took down the closest fete banner, at the bottom of our road. During the afternoon I drove around taking down the 9 others - a lovely sunny day, so very pleasant.
In the evening we walked over to Coln for church at 6pm - a Taizé service, with lots of chants and candles and quiet. It was very relaxing, just what I needed - also great to have space and time for reflection and silent prayer, and listening to God. I really enjoyed the change from the usual style of service in the parish churches - very refreshing.
We went camping this weekend which meant I got to use one of my favourite things, my Swiss Army knife.
Barnaby bought it for me for my 18th birthday and got the blade engraved. It accompanied me on my year off backpacking in Australia and has been everywhere with me since. It doesn't get taken out much these days but I love it when I get a chance to use it. This weekend it helped us open a bottle of wine, which tasted great after a long drive across Vancouver Island.
I've always thought of my little key chain-size Swiss Army knife as the former, but since 9/11 the TSA considered it the latter -- until they changed their mind the other day. Although this finally brought the US in line with air security policies in the rest of the world, there has been a massive backlash and now it seems the TSA's reversal might itself be reversed. The prevailing sound bite seems to be "Knives on airplanes! What were they thinking?"
As for me, I'm as attached to the little gizmo as I am to my iPhone, and I've carried it for a lot longer. The "knife" is an inch and a half long. It's useful for cutting fruit or slicing cheese, opening plastic wrap, and the tip is useful for tightening those pesky little eyeglass screws that have a way of coming loose at the most inconvenient times. There's also a tweezers, a toothpick, a nail file that's also useful for taking the rough edges off a lot of things, along with a miniature pair of spring-loaded scissors that are easy to operate with one hand. Since I usually don't check luggage, I always resented having to leave it at home when I travel. The ban always struck me as silly and unnecessary, just another example of bureaucratic overreaching that's turning us into a nation of sheep, made fearful by the war on terror.
Is the knife dangerous? Only theoretically, in about the same way as a fountain pen or ballpoint could theoretically be life threatening in the hands of someone trained to use it that way. We don't normally worry a lot about fountain pens and ballpoints as security threats. But because pocket knives are subsets of a larger category of "knife" that includes some very dangerous weapons indeed, they've been mindlessly confiscated along with weapons that pose a real threat.
The backlash against the TSA's sensible decision is another example of our simplistic, finger-pointing soundbite culture. "Knives on planes! What were they thinking?" -- pandering politicians and pundits jumped on the bandwagon, all competing to score points against TSA (normally an easy target), and to establish that the speaker sincerely cares about public safety. (Seriously, John McCain, don't you have anything more important to do than ranting about knives on planes?)
Usually, when sound bites come in the door, common sense usually flies out the window. I hope it returns soon.
This is a Swiss Army Knife I modeled in Maya 2008 and rendered with Mental Ray. This image displays the knife with all the blades tucked in. The text was added in Adobe Photoshop
I spotted this crop design commemorating the 125th anniversary of Victorinox (the maker of the Swiss Army Knife, which you can see in the design) as the Swiss International Airlines Airbus A321 in which I was flying from Athens made its final approach to Zurich Kloten. It's one of the more imaginative crop designs I've seen.
1.4mm cord used for a single strand star knot lanyard on this Victorinox Harvester in Swiss Chocolate Brown Alox (SwissBianco).
Carved wooden bead at split ring end and small flat gate clip for attachment.
Prusik knot and multiple overhand sliding knot/scaffold knot at one adjustable loop end and the other loop end runs through the bead and is ring/cow/girth hitched onto the Swiss Army Knife's split ring.
The 1.4mm nylon mini blind string/cord has a 70+ lb break strength.
My older Victorinox Ranger Model Swiss Army Knife is damaged. While cutting off the top of a downed tree (yes, a tree) the tree flexed and bent my wood saw badly. I've received a new SAK to replace it, but I'd still like to get my old one fixed.
Problem is, how do I get Victorinox to "update" my old knife (without the spacers" that the saw slots into) to make it even more usefull.
Just some stuff from my pockets. Two key rings (house and car) plus two loose knives (Case Peanut and SAK Climber).
My older Victorinox Ranger Model Swiss Army Knife is damaged. While cutting off the top of a downed tree (yes, a tree) the tree flexed and bent my wood saw badly. I've received a new SAK to replace it, but I'd still like to get my old one fixed.
Problem is, how do I get Victorinox to "update" my old knife (without the spacers" that the saw slots into) to make it even more usefull.
Back to normal with our walk with Bonny today. The weather seems to have brightened up and it wasn't cold.
After a good deal of thinking over the last few days I finally hit upon a solution to move a data safe. This thing is very heavy and as it's practically a metal cube it has no handholds on it. In the end I wrapped some ropes around it to fashion handles on the top of the safe. This made it much easier and I managed to get it in the car for transporting tomorrow.
One small task today was to change the battery in this little clock. I need to order some more watch batteries at some point.
A bit more spring cleaning today that involved moving beds!
I bought this blank 2008 calendar in Germany last September; I've never seen one like it here but they are quite common there I believe. I have had two photos from each month of 2007 printed* as this is actually two calendars - one black on white the other white on black.
* Thanks Alan_D :-)
Restoration works needed on this 20-year old watch: Replace the black rubber strap with blue silicone, replace gasket, change battery and buffing/polishing of case.
1.4mm cord used for a single strand star knot lanyard on this Victorinox Harvester in Swiss Chocolate Brown Alox (SwissBianco).
Carved wooden bead at split ring end and small flat gate clip for attachment.
Prusik knot and multiple overhand sliding knot/scaffold knot at one adjustable loop end and the other loop end runs through the bead and is ring/cow/girth hitched onto the Swiss Army Knife's split ring.
The 1.4mm nylon mini blind string/cord has a 70+ lb break strength.
A King's Crown Button Knot paracord wrist lanyard stormdrane.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-kings-crown-button-knot...
A King's Crown Button Knot paracord wrist lanyard stormdrane.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-kings-crown-button-knot...
My old Ranger Model Victorinox Swiss Army Knife was sent the authorized repair center. The bent Wood Saw was bent back some, it's better, but not fixed. The damaged tip of the small blade was reprofiled (ground down and resharpened). The damaged Saw Liners were left alone, and the saw still will not retract without flexing it.
The damaged scales were replaced, as was the toothpick and the tweezers.
All in all, I'm actually disappointed. With the saw problem remaining, it's still not "Fixed".
I was willing to pay for repairs, now I'm going to have to call them back and see if they really will fix it. :\
1.4mm cord used for a single strand star knot lanyard on this Victorinox Harvester in Swiss Chocolate Brown Alox (SwissBianco).
Carved wooden bead at split ring end and small flat gate clip for attachment.
Prusik knot and multiple overhand sliding knot/scaffold knot at one adjustable loop end and the other loop end runs through the bead and is ring/cow/girth hitched onto the Swiss Army Knife's split ring.
The 1.4mm nylon mini blind string/cord has a 70+ lb break strength.
A King's Crown Button Knot paracord wrist lanyard stormdrane.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-kings-crown-button-knot...
I'm a life member of the Cyclists' Touring Club and have just received the latest magazine and the form to vote for four trustees. The form needs cutting from the information about the candidates and the CTC kindly shows a picture of a pair of scissors where one should cut. Naturally, I ignored that and slit the paper with my handy Swiss Army Knife.
My flight out of Paris was early Sunday morning, so I had to catch a train on Saturday and spend the night in Paris. I picked up the makings of a little picnic in Annecy before hopping on the train. Cheese from the cheese shop. Bread from the bakery. Fruit from the produce shop. All of it incredibly fresh. Why don't we eat like this in the US?
As he knows how fond I am of my Swiss Army Knife, my son bought this chocolate version for me some time ago. However, I like it so much that I haven't eaten it :-)
Pocket dump picture with Victorinox Alox Pioneer Swiss Army Knife, Atwood Bermuda Triangle, Atwood 5-fluted lanyard bead in copper
This is a Swiss Army Knife I modeled in Maya 2008 and rendered with Mental Ray. I created this composite image in Adobe Photoshop with renders from my scene.
The middle image is a view of all the tools of the knife. The top right corner displays the back of the knife. The bottom left displays the top of the closed knife.
Menton, France.
We tried to spend about $10/day overall while traveling in Europe -- and mostly succeeded except in large cities. It helped that the dollar was strong then, but we also economized by hitchhiking, sleeping in our tent most nights, and eating picnic lunches every day. This was a fairly typical spread: a baguette, a brioche, a small round of goat cheese (hard to see sitting on the white paper wrapping), fresh milk (or sometimes wine), a fresh tomato and a fresh peach, and in this case, a jar of caviar. There also seems to be a stuffed item of some sort spilling out of the paper bag. The swiss army knife was our constant companion.