Ten dollar Chinese made swiss army type knives are a blast. When I was teaching wilderness skill classes I would buy a new one for each course and at the appropriate time I would rip it apart with my bare hands. It was easy. Answered a lot of questions doing that. It has been awhile and I suspect that they may be made better these days but idk. Thanks for a good look Andy, well done. I would luv a sticker, I'll pm you.
Good stuff! Yeah I suspect doing any kind of hard use, these tools would fail. Light, everyday tasks would likely be fine but I’d never trust my life to something this cheap. I’ll look for your message and send you a sticker!
Sometimes the cheaper off brand multitools are fine, sometimes not so good. If you buy 2/3 good ones in a row fate will slap you and the next one will be a total turkey. That is how it is. Don't like those odds, save your money and buy a Victorinox.
I was given something exactly like this. The only exception is that it is marked 'Swiss Eagle', but it has the exact same tools and design. It does not compare to my Victorinox, Wenger, or Swiza, but it is one of those things that I can use until it breaks. Good video. 👍
If you break it down by the cost per individual tool on it, that thing is not a bad deal at all. I wonder if the magnifying lens would be enough to start burn paper/start an ember, which I'd use it for before trying to see through it. Thanks for the review and stay well over there, Andy.
Hi, thanks for the vid! Just a few things: ~ The awl is on the far side from the corkscrew ~ You forgot the metal file/saw (which is good) Lately I've been checking out 'multitool pliers' on amazon for posers vs way-overpriced (grin). Maybe a vid for father's day? I'll let you know if I find a gem/non-poser. Take care -b ps. oh yeah, save the knife for when ur kids go up to college and give it to them with a dollar store led flashlight. Time flies :)
Announcer: "We secretly switched Andy's SAK with this knockoff and sent him on a survival course. Sadly, we haven't seen him since." Lol. It seems decent, but i believe once you put the prybar, pliers, corkscrew and Phillips driver under torque it will probably warp and flex. Thanks for sharing.
Very possible/probable regarding using the tools under decent torque. With this little demo, I didn’t stress anything. Would never trust my life to something this cheap. 😊. Thanks for watching brother!
Yep. I enjoy my dollar tree special, but I know it's limitations and 100% would break if I tried something creative with it. with it. Oddly, part of it's weakness is that the manufacturer didn't mushroom out the rivets, only drove them in. As such the layers can separate. Unless you're someone like me, who will take the knife apart and finish the manufacturer's job. Also, should get a ball pean hammer. Mushrooming those rivets wasn't fun with a claw hammer and punch.
Great video thanks. Like the old saying goes "you get what you pay for". This is the poor man SAK. Only good if you really needed a SAK but couldn't wait to save the money. Buy and use until you can afford a real SAK or until it brakes. After then give to a kid or leave in a drawer never to be used again. A Victorinox SAK for me is a must as I have become a knife snob. Once you go Victorinox you never go back. I like being prepared and SAK is a part of that and in survival situation you do not want to regret being to cheap.
Im looking to buy a swiss army knife, but i can't afford Victorinox it's too expensive so i'm just looking for an inexpensive knife that functions well. Everything looks fine except the magnifying glass, I'm just gonna fix everything and hope for the best. Love your videos!
it's not Victorinox, Looks like a victorinox knockoff, the cheapest victorinox knife is the Victorinox Classic which costs $10 and it is smaller than an average persons thumb
Ugh. More clones. You should cut it in half with a real Victorinox. I really wish there was a way to kill clone companies. It sickens me to see dishonest businesses making a fortune off of ripping off someone else’s design. You can bet that when I get the Diablo into production if a company steals my design I will go after them without hesitation
Lol, meanwhile I want to somehow gaslight the Chinese to create my z80 microprocessor trainer thing. All bootleg style! Except they won't be bootlegs as the genuine end product would only exist on paper. Creating an MVP and prototype? Relatively cheap. The Z80 has existed for ~40 years and 8KiB of sram is dirt cheap. Smashing all of that down into a singular monolithic die, wirebonding it to a PCB and epoxy blobbing it, investing pick and place machines... You get the point. Expensive! So, why do that when you can conspire against the People's Republic of China and (hopefully) get your project mass produced? Fucking... Inverse IP fraud... Or something...
Victorinox purest here. The absolute first item anyone should get for EDC, camping or bushcraft, is a Swiss Army Knife. If you cannot afford an original, then some of these cheap Chinese knock offs are perfectly serviceable. The tolerances are loose, the metal aint great, and they are simply not up to the same quality as Victorinox knives, BUT they work, and the biggest factor in play is that they wont last as long after regular use...... so they might crap-out after a few years rather than after twenty years. Personally I can live with that given the price point. There was a time when I would have said "dont buy cheap Chinese knock off swiss army knives". But now Victorinox are making "Swiss Army knives without knives" because they went woke. Fuck these guys.
Yeah man, I hear ya. I’m tired of all the woke nonsense too, it’s out of control. My first knife was a Swiss Army knife from my dad. Thanks for leaving the comments!
@@OhioBladeandCutlery Same here brother. It was my first knife. I think "modern bushcraft" overlooks them, but they are a toolkit in a tiny package. But yeah, some of the latest Chinese knock offs are decent. Not proud but I bought one recently and it was great. Thank you for your balanced take and sensible outlook. All the best to you sir.
Hard pass!!! The blades or any tool lack hardness with those cheap fakes. They flex.. they bend... and they will snap when you put a decent amount of stress on them. Stress that a real one can handle. I have a cheap knockoff. I also own a Victorinox Explorer and a Victorinox Evo23. The tools are so much harder on the real stuff. Also the overall fit of the whole SAK is way better. If you try to bend tools on those fakes the whole thing moves... even the plates that separate the tool layers move when you put side pressure on a tool. It feels like it can fall apart at any moment. What scares me even more with those fakes is what I see with my fake and many other fakes..... the tip of the main blade sticks out! It doesn't completely fold into the handle. Very dangerous if you want to grab it and pull it out of your pocket... you could hurt yourself. Sometimes it's better to pay a little more.. or 5 or 10 times more for a real Victorinox. At least you know they last for decades or even outlast you and won't let you down when you need it the most. I would not even use the corkscrew on those fakes... You have a bigger chance of snapping the fake into many pieces than actually pulling the cork out of a bottle!😂 In my 30+ years of experience with knives I had some very bad ones. But with the Victorinox knockoff I knew before I bought it, it was gonna be bad. I just wanted to see how bad.😂 It's metal and plastic waste.. nothing more.. nothing less.
Ten dollar Chinese made swiss army type knives are a blast. When I was teaching wilderness skill classes I would buy a new one for each course and at the appropriate time I would rip it apart with my bare hands. It was easy. Answered a lot of questions doing that. It has been awhile and I suspect that they may be made better these days but idk. Thanks for a good look Andy, well done. I would luv a sticker, I'll pm you.
Good stuff! Yeah I suspect doing any kind of hard use, these tools would fail. Light, everyday tasks would likely be fine but I’d never trust my life to something this cheap. I’ll look for your message and send you a sticker!
Sometimes the cheaper off brand multitools are fine, sometimes not so good. If you buy 2/3 good ones in a row fate will slap you and the next one will be a total turkey. That is how it is. Don't like those odds, save your money and buy a Victorinox.
I was given something exactly like this. The only exception is that it is marked 'Swiss Eagle', but it has the exact same tools and design. It does not compare to my Victorinox, Wenger, or Swiza, but it is one of those things that I can use until it breaks. Good video. 👍
This is actually what i have right now and it's preeeettyyyyyy good for my daily stuff
Great video ! I was pretty Leary on buying one but what the heck after the video I think I will buy one from Amazon !
If you break it down by the cost per individual tool on it, that thing is not a bad deal at all. I wonder if the magnifying lens would be enough to start burn paper/start an ember, which I'd use it for before trying to see through it. Thanks for the review and stay well over there, Andy.
It might, I’ll have to try it.
It looks too small to start a fire.
Hi, thanks for the vid! Just a few things:
~ The awl is on the far side from the corkscrew
~ You forgot the metal file/saw (which is good)
Lately I've been checking out 'multitool pliers' on amazon for posers vs way-overpriced (grin). Maybe a vid for father's day? I'll let you know if I find a gem/non-poser. Take care
-b
ps. oh yeah, save the knife for when ur kids go up to college and give it to them with a dollar store led flashlight. Time flies :)
Oh crap, you’re right. Can’t believe I missed that! The file is really good. Thanks for the feedback man!
Ooo I love stickers!!! You still got my addy? 🤪 Lol, great review, brother, well worth the price! Happy weekend 🙂✌
😅. Thanks man, I agree it’s worth the ten bucks. Thanks for watching as always
Announcer: "We secretly switched Andy's SAK with this knockoff and sent him on a survival course. Sadly, we haven't seen him since." Lol. It seems decent, but i believe once you put the prybar, pliers, corkscrew and Phillips driver under torque it will probably warp and flex. Thanks for sharing.
Very possible/probable regarding using the tools under decent torque. With this little demo, I didn’t stress anything. Would never trust my life to something this cheap. 😊. Thanks for watching brother!
Yep. I enjoy my dollar tree special, but I know it's limitations and 100% would break if I tried something creative with it. with it.
Oddly, part of it's weakness is that the manufacturer didn't mushroom out the rivets, only drove them in. As such the layers can separate.
Unless you're someone like me, who will take the knife apart and finish the manufacturer's job. Also, should get a ball pean hammer. Mushrooming those rivets wasn't fun with a claw hammer and punch.
Great video thanks. Like the old saying goes "you get what you pay for". This is the poor man SAK. Only good if you really needed a SAK but couldn't wait to save the money. Buy and use until you can afford a real SAK or until it brakes. After then give to a kid or leave in a drawer never to be used again.
A Victorinox SAK for me is a must as I have become a knife snob. Once you go Victorinox you never go back. I like being prepared and SAK is a part of that and in survival situation you do not want to regret being to cheap.
Im looking to buy a swiss army knife, but i can't afford Victorinox it's too expensive so i'm just looking for an inexpensive knife that functions well.
Everything looks fine except the magnifying glass, I'm just gonna fix everything and hope for the best.
Love your videos!
Thanks for the feedback! Hope you enjoy your knife!
It seems pretty legit for or 10 bucks. Thanks for sharing
Yeah, it was very good for $10. I’d pay that all day long
Thanks man!! I got my sticker today 💪
beeferbaron cool man, enjoy!
2:42 Weird how most can openers are like that one, and right handed.
not bad
Great video btw mate.... sorry I didnt say that in my original comment.
Thanks!
it's not Victorinox, Looks like a victorinox knockoff, the cheapest victorinox knife is the Victorinox Classic which costs $10 and it is smaller than an average persons thumb
Yes it is a cheap, Chinese knockoff
Ugh. More clones. You should cut it in half with a real Victorinox. I really wish there was a way to kill clone companies. It sickens me to see dishonest businesses making a fortune off of ripping off someone else’s design. You can bet that when I get the Diablo into production if a company steals my design I will go after them without hesitation
I mean I’m not spending 20 on the smallest Swiss Army knife multi tool
You will have to patent it.
Lol, meanwhile I want to somehow gaslight the Chinese to create my z80 microprocessor trainer thing. All bootleg style!
Except they won't be bootlegs as the genuine end product would only exist on paper.
Creating an MVP and prototype? Relatively cheap. The Z80 has existed for ~40 years and 8KiB of sram is dirt cheap.
Smashing all of that down into a singular monolithic die, wirebonding it to a PCB and epoxy blobbing it, investing pick and place machines... You get the point. Expensive!
So, why do that when you can conspire against the People's Republic of China and (hopefully) get your project mass produced?
Fucking... Inverse IP fraud... Or something...
Victorinox purest here.
The absolute first item anyone should get for EDC, camping or bushcraft, is a Swiss Army Knife.
If you cannot afford an original, then some of these cheap Chinese knock offs are perfectly serviceable.
The tolerances are loose, the metal aint great, and they are simply not up to the same quality as Victorinox knives, BUT they work, and the biggest factor in play is that they wont last as long after regular use...... so they might crap-out after a few years rather than after twenty years. Personally I can live with that given the price point.
There was a time when I would have said "dont buy cheap Chinese knock off swiss army knives". But now Victorinox are making "Swiss Army knives without knives" because they went woke.
Fuck these guys.
Yeah man, I hear ya. I’m tired of all the woke nonsense too, it’s out of control. My first knife was a Swiss Army knife from my dad. Thanks for leaving the comments!
@@OhioBladeandCutlery Same here brother. It was my first knife.
I think "modern bushcraft" overlooks them, but they are a toolkit in a tiny package.
But yeah, some of the latest Chinese knock offs are decent. Not proud but I bought one recently and it was great.
Thank you for your balanced take and sensible outlook.
All the best to you sir.
If they ever reach a rainbow scales with sex tools level of wokeness I'll boycott them.
Hard pass!!!
The blades or any tool lack hardness with those cheap fakes.
They flex.. they bend... and they will snap when you put a decent amount of stress on them.
Stress that a real one can handle.
I have a cheap knockoff.
I also own a Victorinox Explorer and a Victorinox Evo23.
The tools are so much harder on the real stuff.
Also the overall fit of the whole SAK is way better.
If you try to bend tools on those fakes the whole thing moves... even the plates that separate the tool layers move when you put side pressure on a tool.
It feels like it can fall apart at any moment.
What scares me even more with those fakes is what I see with my fake and many other fakes..... the tip of the main blade sticks out!
It doesn't completely fold into the handle.
Very dangerous if you want to grab it and pull it out of your pocket... you could hurt yourself.
Sometimes it's better to pay a little more.. or 5 or 10 times more for a real Victorinox.
At least you know they last for decades or even outlast you and won't let you down when you need it the most.
I would not even use the corkscrew on those fakes...
You have a bigger chance of snapping the fake into many pieces than actually pulling the cork out of a bottle!😂
In my 30+ years of experience with knives I had some very bad ones.
But with the Victorinox knockoff I knew before I bought it, it was gonna be bad.
I just wanted to see how bad.😂
It's metal and plastic waste.. nothing more.. nothing less.