My first knife, at the age of 5, was a Victorinox Swiss Champ. Black Scales, everything you could ever need. I still have it in the "retired" box on my dresser. Great memories of that knife and the years I used it, running around in the woods, repairing G.I. Joes, etc.

Now I have a Benchmade Griptilian and can't help to feel that it is boring after this moment of nostalgia. Oh well, my wife loves the SAK Classics, and I have bought her two or three over the past couple years. I'll live my SAK fantasies vicariously through her...by the way, the reason she's gotten three SAK Classics over the past two years is because the scales have come off. I am a biased "Vic" fan incidentally.