I stumbled across a SAK that might just have the most delightful set of stock scales I've ever seen and one I instantly just had to have.
Many of you have probably heard of the "My First Victorinox" knife with a rounded main blade, marketed towards children. It is typically offered in translucent red, blue, or pink. Well, I was looking into them as a source for sapphire scales and noticed that overseas they sell 3 other versions with an animal theme; one with a jungle theme, one with an underwater scene, and one with forest animals. The forest one has a mushroom placed pretty prominently in the foreground, and I couldn't help but take notice of it and the fact that it looks like the animals are staring at it smiling, and thought to myself "this would be a pretty cool set of scales for another project."
That's not the best part though. I click to see the back side of the knife and what do I see???
Wait for it?...
Wait for it?...
The mushroom is gone and animals are rolling around on the forest floor having a good ol' time! And this is a kid's knife! I'm aware that this type of mushroom is the widely used in folklore particularly in Europe, so in certain places its use in children's stories might be commonplace, but I just couldn't resist picking up a SAK with scales that had forest animals trippin' out on mushrooms . I'm swapping the scales onto a Bantam and using it as my around the house bottle opener
Rich I bought the SAK off of Ebay. “sakmodder” is the builder. They are still available along with another model.unclekurty
Love that modded super Tinker. Where can I get one? I think I'd polish the cross if I had one.
thanks, Rich
Love it, brother!No Amanita Muscaria ingesting critters on these titanium scales unfortunately. This modded Super Tinker has brass liners and steel pivots with T6 torx screws.
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I so need thisI stumbled across a SAK that might just have the most delightful set of stock scales I've ever seen and one I instantly just had to have.
Many of you have probably heard of the "My First Victorinox" knife with a rounded main blade, marketed towards children. It is typically offered in translucent red, blue, or pink. Well, I was looking into them as a source for sapphire scales and noticed that overseas they sell 3 other versions with an animal theme; one with a jungle theme, one with an underwater scene, and one with forest animals. The forest one has a mushroom placed pretty prominently in the foreground, and I couldn't help but take notice of it and the fact that it looks like the animals are staring at it smiling, and thought to myself "this would be a pretty cool set of scales for another project."
That's not the best part though. I click to see the back side of the knife and what do I see???
Wait for it?...
Wait for it?...
The mushroom is gone and animals are rolling around on the forest floor having a good ol' time! And this is a kid's knife! I'm aware that this type of mushroom is the widely used in folklore particularly in Europe, so in certain places its use in children's stories might be commonplace, but I just couldn't resist picking up a SAK with scales that had forest animals trippin' out on mushrooms . I'm swapping the scales onto a Bantam and using it as my around the house bottle opener