Hi David,
Oops! There's an extra period at the end of, but still inside, your URL tag. My browser tries to find http://www.victorinox.com[color:"red"].[/color]/ instead of http://www.victorinox.com/[color:"red"].[/color]
Stay safe,
J.T.

Ooops, indeed! Sorry about that. The period was simply to end the sentence, and not meant to be part of the URL. I wrote the text in a word processor, & cut & pasted it into the posting page. Somewhere in the translation, the two were conjoined, causing an error. I should have tested the link after posting!

I've corrected it now. Thanks, Jet, for letting me know.

David

The victorinox pen does it for me. It's always by my side, reliable and it amazes people. If you do carry your SAK with a pen included I cant see what else you'd want.

Reinhardt - back from being gone <img src="images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

long time no see reinhardt woets !

the vic pen is good indead, but on models where you only got the small metal revil like looking pen, it's a bit less comfortable.

I agree that the plastic SAK toothpick is one of those "essential" EDC items. If my Micra had a slot for one, (as well as a cross-cut file instead of a pebble-texture) it would truly be the perfect EDC tool.

I’ve made thin pencils for my kits by putting regular pencils in a drill and using sandpaper to mill them down. Cut them to size, apply a couple coats of enamel, and your done. Jester

good to see you PC2K, 'bout being away its a long story.

I use half of a 'waterproof' pencil that I got from the British Geological Survey. "Waterproof?" I hear you say...All that means is that its made from recycled paper cups so there's no wood to swell if it gets wet. Nevertheless they are excellent pencils(and environmentally friendly - bonus)

Actually, a SAK toothpick, or other thin plastic pokey thing, would be a useful item and would not be an issue with metal detectors.

Since there is a Wallet Pen, I wonder if there's a Wallet Toothpick?

David,

"Have you tried using the tweezers as a striker? Got the idea from an early issue of Tactical Knives"

I have not tried that. I would imagine it might work, but be pretty frustrating- using the sides of the tweezers is going to be awkward since they're so thin and flexible, and using the ends may tend to ruin them for their normal use, eventually... and there's the fact that they seem to get lost a lot. Seems like it would be frustrating to have much better tools right in your hand that you can't use for this..

I do know that a P-38 can opener works very well as a striker, and that's why I don't put a separate one in my PSKs. Given the way that ferrocerium works (as opposed to real flint), I'm sure that glass or anything hard and reasonably sharp will work fine.