Excellent ideas. However there are a couple of ideas that I am uncertain about, namely the sparking wheel. This seems too complecated to me. On another forum, people were talking about trying to combine a ferocium rod with an SAK. One idea was to replace the tiny screwdriver in the corkscrew with a ferocium rod with the screw in top piece. Another idea was to replace the tooth pick with a tiny piece of ferocium that could be removed and struck. IMO both of these designs would be too flimsey. The only real possibility that I can think of would be to add a BSA hotspark or similar as standard to the lanyard ring.

Why not attapt the reamer to make a good awl instead of having both?

Is this meant to be an EDC urban tool or an outdoor/survival tool. It appears to be the latter (which I favour). In this case do you think the scissors are nessesary? If we did away with them we could shed a layer or replace them with a more useful tool like your suggested file.

These are my ideals. Thanks for a great post Tom <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.