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#71912 - 08/24/06 01:16 PM Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
a_m Offline
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Registered: 11/28/05
Posts: 29
Loc: Ottawa
2lbs, 9 inches wide, 85 implements.
You want one.

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#71913 - 08/24/06 03:12 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Registered: 07/10/05
Posts: 763
that knife is gross and useless. The user can't use it effectively because it is too bulky. This knife is overloaded for its own good. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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#71914 - 08/24/06 06:32 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Registered: 10/30/05
Posts: 1341
Loc: Virginia, US
I'd buy one just to break it out in that perfect moment while everyone was sitting around a campfire being all serious discussing survival... Just for a laugh. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
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#71915 - 08/24/06 06:44 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Back in the days when Brittania ruled the waves, the famous Rodger's had two folding knives that put this one to shame. One of them had a thousand blades! They were purchased by the British Museum when Rodgers went belly up. The best collection of these monstrosities is in a museum in Recife, Brazil. Of course none were meant to be functional, just showing off their trade craft

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#71916 - 08/24/06 07:36 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Registered: 12/07/05
Posts: 781
Loc: Central Illinois
That's production? Looks like something they put out on the booth for trade shows. If they are selling them, it would be largely useless other than as an amusement or "show off" piece for a collector. I don't see how you could actually use the tools on it safely.
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#71917 - 08/24/06 08:53 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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This is being done strictly for marketing purposes, to be used at shows and dealers, though some will be sold to collectors no doubt. If you have to ask the price.... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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#71918 - 08/26/06 02:29 AM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Registered: 09/16/05
Posts: 664
Loc: Florida, USA
Back in high school, the librarian, who was also my debate coach, had one of those really big SAKs...the one with magnifying lens. He carried that bad boy EDC too. We used to joke about the kids that brought in cases and cases of files for their debates...joked about getting a SAK that had a satelite uplink to access information...this was just before the Internet became every day use in our part of the world.

I lost touch with him, but I wouldn't be surprised to find one of these things at his house!

As a side note, (this has nothing to do with the original post btw) when Doug said "if you have to ask the price..." it reminded me of something. As my wife and I have been looking at houses for sale in our area we see several that have information sheets in little boxes in front of the houses. We have discovered that, without fail, if a house for sale has such an information sheet...we can't afford it! <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
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#71919 - 08/26/06 03:49 AM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
aloha Offline
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Registered: 11/16/05
Posts: 1059
Loc: Hawaii, USA
Aloha Ors,

I think all the houses in Hawaii have that information sheet you mentioned. Our median home price is $640,000. I wish the prices are much much lower when I want to buy. And much much higher when I want to sell. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I guess I just want it all.
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#71920 - 08/28/06 06:22 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Registered: 05/24/05
Posts: 28
Loc: Portsmouth, VA
Reminds me of some of those 2ft long folders that used to be used as a display piece.."That's not a knife..."
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#71921 - 08/29/06 02:38 AM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
brian Offline
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Registered: 07/28/04
Posts: 1468
Loc: Texas
Hahahaha that will be a great collector's item.... and I know better than to ask the price... that's for sure. :grin"
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#71922 - 08/30/06 09:55 PM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
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Registered: 03/12/04
Posts: 316
Loc: Beaumont, TX USA
Quote:
Back in high school, the librarian, who was also my debate coach, had one of those really big SAKs...the one with magnifying lens. He carried that bad boy EDC too. We used to joke about the kids that brought in cases and cases of files for their debates...joked about getting a SAK that had a satelite uplink to access information...this was just before the Internet became every day use in our part of the world.

I lost touch with him, but I wouldn't be surprised to find one of these things at his house!
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Here are two of mine(along with some others...My EDC is the one one the far left.).

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#71923 - 08/31/06 01:17 AM Re: Mother of All Swiss Army Knives
Anonymous
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I want one to weld to my Jeep...
(does it have a wynch on it?)

Rena
(survivalgene)

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