The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife is a staple for EDC. With a single Swiss knife, you get incredible functionality in a small package. Screwdrivers, bottle openers, scissors, an awl...and the list goes on!
I have full reviews on the way of some of the more popular models - but this post is a great starting point for adding a Swiss Knife to your EDC. These tools are very well built, have a great warranty, and use a very high quality, soft stainless steel that can take an edge that is literally razor sharp, easily too!
An added bonus, a Swiss knife is almost universally seen as non- threatening. Even non- knife people know that a swiss knife is a tool to be used responsibly. This is a wonderful thing, especially when you have to loan your knife to someone else to use. I typically have a swiss knife riding shotgun with a locking folder of some sort, because then you get the best of both worlds!
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So....Here we go - The many different varieties of the Swiss Army Knife!
1.) Victorinox Classic -
A popular model, The Classic is small. As in fits comfortably on your keychain small. This makes is a light duty knife, but still very practical. With scissors, a file, a screwdriver, and a knife, The Classic packs a punch in a small package!
2.) The Super Tinker and related
This is the 'meat and potatoes' area of Victorinox. All models of this size include multiple liners, a strong back spring, and depending on which model you pick, a litany of tools.
The Super Tinker is a great model to start out with. It is slim and light enough to carry easy, but has basically every tool on it that you would use on a day-to-day basis. This is a EDC staple, and carried either alone or with a locking folder, you can't go wrong with the Super Tinker!
3.) Victorinox SwissTool
Like a Leatherman, but a much high quality, the Victorinox Swisstool is the Swiss answer to folding multitools. Keeping with the brands habit of overbuilding product, the Swisstool is made of very high quality stainless, with an almost perfect heat treat. The individual tools are well formed, and made to last several years of use.
The Swisstool comes in 2 different variants.
4.) A locking Swiss knife?
The One Handed Trekker and similar variants are locking Swiss Knives - an almost perfect EDC knife!
These knives are affordable, and made with to Victorinox's high standards. They are quirky though - and feature a liner lock that is left handed. The locking variants are a bit bigger than your standard red handled SAK, but these are very practical knives.
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