How many of the blades do you actually use?
Have you ever found a decent use for the tweezers or toothpick?

I used the tweezers to remove a tiny metal splinter from my finger on Friday. I've never used the toothpick for anything.

My recommendation would be to remove the tweezers or the toothpick and insert something really useful in their place like a couple good needles. That's one of the most valuable items in my FAK and has removed many many an annoying splinter.

Dang, I hate splinters. Anyway, you could easily put a small piece of scotch tape over the needles to hold them in the toothpick slot.

Tweezers,all the time.
Toothpick, occasionally, and for the intended purpose.

And I have a use for the hook. Ren faires. There is usually some lass who needs her laces tugged a little tighter after an hour or so. It is perfect, don't even have to undo the corset. *raises an eyebrow* Dirty old man in training.

I do the same thing with my boots.

I'm going to start EDCing a Swiss Army Knife just to attend to the corset-wearing wenches. That there is a good tip.

Also the needles in place of the toothpick. Thank you, gentlemen.

It just so happens that there is plenty of room in a Leatherman to rubber cement a large needle or three.

I EDC a Classic, and I use all the blades regularly. Tweezers and toothpick (as a toothpick) about daily, the blade when I don't really need to dig out the Leatherman, and scissors and file usually when I have managed to break off a corner of a fingernail...

I EDC a SAK. I would say that I've used everything on it.

-Small blade typicall for opening packages.
-Large blade for normal knife/cutting uses.
-Scissors for cutting thread / paper / trimming.
-Can opener for intended purpose (someone had a pop top can that failed to open and I was able to open it using this)
-Large / small screwdriver
-Bottle opening for many a beer
-Corkscrew for many a bottle of wine
-Awl for cleaning fingernails / punch / awl work
-Hook for carrying bundles. Keeps thin straps from cutting in my hand.
-Tweezers for small splinters
-Toothpick as intended.

I carry a relatively simple one, and use most everything at least weekly. I have used the tweezers and toothpick quite frequently and for their intended purposes. Not that there are not other ways of cleaning your teeth and pulling splinters. I have been carrying the same model (the camper) for more than 20 years and I am quite happy with it.

My BOB has a Swiss Army Locksmith in it. I like having the ability to work wood or metal when needed. The locking blade is nice as well. I have use the metal file quite a bit on smoothing things out and cut a pipe with it (that was NOT easy, but it worked).

i carry a new model OHT SAK and use Tweezers and toothpick fairly often. I use the can and bottle openers often.

Swiss Champ for general purpose use.
Farmer for a survival knife. Best non-locking survival knife going. Bar non.

Being an English Freebooter, loosening the wenches corset is more my style.

Helping them tighten them is a sign of old age.....

It has to be one with the hook in it. And practice, or she'll hurt you back. And not in the nice ways.

My Swiss Army Survival Knife (see pics below)is used as EDC with my Leatherman Blast and Wave, I use the pliers as tweezers since I can get closer to the object then regular tweezers.

Mike

I use the tweezers as a micro pry bar and the toothpick to clean and oil multi-tools. I use the squared off bottle opener as a chisel and the can opener as a box cutter.

Yes, I've found uses.

Actually, I use the can opener, scredrivers, tweezers and yes, the toothpick, even the saw, much more than the blade. Tweezers and toothpick are used mostly for intended purposes, but sometimes innovation finds new uses when pressed by circumstance. Toothpick is sometimes used to clean out small places in firearms, for example.
Love SAKs, got to have more.

Most used- Scissors and bottle opener for me, but I will say, I lost the toothpick once, and didn't realize how much I needed it until it was gone!

The tweezers are wimpy, but I did use them to snag a pill I had dropped just out of finger tip reach between the seats of my car, and on another occassion to pull a lace through a punched hole.

I actually went to the Victorinox site to try and figure out what the hook was for- they just call it the "universal hook". But I did find it also referred to as "parcel carrier" and "safety box cutter"..............

The hook was intended as a button hook. To be used for pulling laces up tight. Originally to pull a button on a string through a string button loop.
Honest, that was why the old guys were joking about corset lacing.

Yes, the tweezers are wimpy, but they are still useful sometimes.

I find the toothpick handy, but if needed a sharpened twig would do too.

I like SAK, but I use the simple ones because after a certain point they just get too bulky.

I liked your comment.

i have a Tinker and use everything but the can can and bottle opener.the tweezers are first rate and i have taken the knife on camping trips just to have them handy..same with the toothpick.
the awl is the only thing that will make the right kind hole in leather,the screw drivers get lots of use around the house for little jobs.i use a leatherman for the big jobs on canoe trips like fixes to the boat or stoves...the little blade gets a fine edge and the big one a working edge..i've had this one over 25 years and it works like new.

I always thought the hook was a “package hook” left over from the days when packages were tied with string. The hook being in the middle of the backside of the knife allows you to hold the package using the knife as a handle.

Most of the buttonhooks I have seen for either shoes or clothing were much narrower and thiner.

Pete

It works for yanking on stuck zippers too.
Wouldn't you be a bit worried about the string on the package breaking.
Most of the string I remember on packages was pretty weak stuff.

I bet they put that hook on their knives just to confuse people.

i used to use the hook to put the chain back on mine (old crappy)bicyle. It fits right in the slots and it keeps mine hands clean. Not much else use though...

I carry a swisschamp too and find I use most of the tools on a weekly basis, with the exception of the corkscrew....
We tend to be whiskey/rum/vodka drinkers as opposed to wine

-Bill Liptak

The hook has a slim nail file on the back, so it's not totally useless!

I've used the hook at a parcel carrier many times. Many year back when recycling newspapers, we would bundle up the piles with twine. That stuff would did into your hand when carrying it out. The hook/handle would make carrying the bundles out quite easy.

I have a Vic Rambler and use almost all the tools. The toothpick for its intended purpose. I've also used it as a probe which won't scratch most other things, and won't conduct electricity. The tweezers likewise, eg for pulling errant hairs.

The scissors work well on nails, and can also cut plastics etc - I often prefer them to a knife for safety. The file is also good for fingernails. Flat and Philips screwdriver are always useful in urban environments. The Philips is magnetised which I've used for picking up dropped screws or for keeping them on the end of the
driver while positioning them. (In a pinch it could be used to make a compass, if I researched which end was North first.) I also carry an LM Juice, and the scissors and Philips screwdriver on that are bigger but less useful.

The bottle-opener works but it's not great, and is really only a backup. I've not really used the wire-straightener.

I'm not sure I can say that I have an Every Day Carry, it fluctuates too much as I continually tweak it, but I do make a point of carrying something everyday and besides my keys and wallet I have some form of a swiss army knife too. Not a day goes by that I don't use it for a dozen things. I've even been known to carry the SwissChamp, usually on my belt, and have used every single blade on it.

I EDC an alox Classic on my keyring

When in the woods, I carry the alox Farmer.