Sak fans what's with the saw?

The SAK saw, like many of the other implements, can best be appreciated when needed and used. Give it a try. You may be surprised how useful it is.:) Or....., just try to stuff an awl, screwdriver, can opener, bottle opener, wire stripper, blade, and handsaw in your pocket:D
 
Wicked Sharp said:
The SAK saw, like many of the other implements, can best be appreciated when needed and used. Give it a try. You may be surprised how useful it is.:) Or....., just try to stuff an awl, screwdriver, can opener, bottle opener, wire stripper, blade, and handsaw in your pocket:D
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Really enjoyed this response. Never thought of it quite like that before.
 
Excellant saw. I have used it on many many tasks. Sharp as all get out - it will take a lot of flesh off if you are not careful.
 
ashshades said:
I feel like I have offended a bunch of people ... Not my intention I swear. It just appeared to be the wrong shape to be useful ie to thick to make a clean straight cut like a hacksaw to jagged to do fine detailed work and too light / short to do any heavy duty work.
That being said I'm glad to know that it does have practical applications
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Compared to saws made by other companies, the SAK saw is the best wood, plastic, PVC pipe, sheet rock it does it all. If you have ever tried using a hack saw, it sucks on wood and all its good for is metal.
 
I recall reading that after having all his instruments stolen while working in a remote part of Africa...a surgeon used the saw on his Swiss Champ to do many limb amputations. Also said the scales came off through repeated sterilization cycles in boiling water.

This story was in that SAK Companion Book.
 
leghog said:
It's a root saw, but I've found it makes much quicker and easier work cutting dovetails and or notches.

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That's cool. How did you do that?
 
It will cut a 2x4. Seriously, some times it's all you have on you and it will do the job. Period.
 
We have a yard with a number of shrubs and small trees. It is nice having the saw to trim small broken branches when I see them.
Also, I saw a video of a woodsman building a summer/fall shelter. He took some bow saw blades with him and used his SAK and some 550 paracord to make a bow saw. The bow saw cut back on the time needed to construct a nice shelter.
 
Pretty useful for camping. There was a big ice storm in Toronto this past winter, and lots of branches/limbs fell in our yard. It's not going to saw through anything thicker than a few inches, but it does a great job at what it can saw through. Could easily use it to get decent sized branches for a fire.
 
I think it makes a great "blade saver" compliment for most SAKs. Since you have a thinner blade that isn't as suited to getting bashed into harder stuff, the saw does a good job on harder wood that would take more time and thought with the blade. on softer wood the blade is faster. Any multi-tool is going to be a compromise over dedicated tools. But I'd rather have that layer than not.
 
I used to feel that way about the SAK saw. It is very useful for making pegs for camping, little jobs, and it sure beats the heck out of having nothing at all available when you need a saw.
 
The saw on these is amazing! I build homes for a living and have actually used the saw on mine quite a bit for shaping small trim pieces. Used it to cut down a door jamb once when all of my other tools were already put away.

I use it frequently for camping. Making meat sticks and such.

Built a log cabin with it one day with my daughter while out hunting. We stopped for a lunch break and as we were sitting in the woods the talk came around to log cabins. We ended up building a troll sized log cabin right next to a logging road/4 wheeler trail. It was about a foot high and had a door and windows cut in. She also made some outdoor furniture and a fire ring, complete with small firewood next to it. It was fun to do and looked pretty cool too. Can't help but wonder about other people coming upon this in the woods and what they must have thought when they saw it!
 
billym said:
Are you expecting to fell trees with it? It is a useable saw for tasks on the same scale as the saw. It is not only useful on wood as it will cut through most plastic as well.
For wilderness uses it is very effective in making things like fireboards and spindles for friction fire making. It easily cuts off the small branches off a larger branch to make things as walking sticks, tent pegs, cooking implements. It does a better, faster and safer than a knife blade. It really depends on your skills.
Most outdoor ability comes from mastering many basic skills. As someone posted in another thread I will paraphrase; "if you have some basic skills there isn't much you can't accomplish with a (Vic) Farmer".
A well know military survival and E&E expert (for got who help me out guys) said the survival knife he would want to have any where any time was "two Swiss Army Farmers".
Any of this help? I love the saw on SAKs.
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Excellent response. I want a Farmer, but I'll be danged if I can find one...
 
In the late Ron Hood's excellent Woodsmaster videos, he advocates that it is beneficial to have the saw then not, when choosing an SAK or multitool. In his vids, he uses the small saw to cut a branch that he would otherwise have to hack his way to on a felled tree, and for sawing through a deer antler to make a round button and a knapping tool.
 
Like many have said it's useful for small jobs around the home and garden and on one occasion freeing the family dog from some particularly ferocious under growth that she got herself tangled in.
 
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