SAK Mods! Post your pics, questions and ideas

[Spikediesel]

Let this be a thread for anyone to show off a Mod they built or had built, ask a question about modding, or share modding ideas and dreams! Hopefully mods fall into their own category of multi tool/multi purpose knives so this can stay here and not be moved to tinkering.

here’s a few to get the ball rolling!

 

[yablanowitz]

I guess I can throw a few out to help.













I love the Scientist, but they are hard to find and tend to be pricey, so I make my own.





And what do you do with a bunch of leftover parts?

 

[hsherzfeld]

I've posted this before, but here is my "Handy Explorer": A Handyman with the pliers layer replaced with the magnifying glass layer from an Explorer. It was my first (so far, only) SAK mod. I really only tried it to see if I could pull it off successfully; now that I can check "disassemble and reassemble a Swiss Army Knife" off of my bucket list as an engineer, I'm not in any hurry to do it again. No more peening brass rivets for me.

 

[tiguy7]

Here are some miscellaneous Ti SAK's.

 

[Lee D]

I’m down to only a couple, but this tool set is my choice for the perfect EDC. 93mm by Lessard and the 84mm by Mr. Spikediesel himself. Both are examples of what a top notch modder is capable of putting together.

 

[Pomsbz]

Blade layer only 91mm that I made, a SAK penknife. Carried this one for a year.

 

[MililaniGrown]

Received this Cadet mod a while back and just wondering if there was something I could do to make the backsrping behind the can opener sit more flush. I haven't opened it up because I'm not sure what's involved in reassembling it.

 

[Spikediesel]

Received this Cadet mod a while back and just wondering if there was something I could do to make the backsrping behind the can opener sit more flush. I haven't opened it up because I'm not sure what's involved in reassembling it.

How does the other end look? Judging from the picture it looks like either the outside dimension of the scale is off or the hole positions are off. If the hole positions are off the other end of the back springs will be sitting lower than the scale.

 

[MililaniGrown]

How does the other end look? Judging from the picture it looks like either the outside dimension of the scale is off or the hole positions are off. If the hole positions are off the other end of the back springs will be sitting lower than the scale.

The other end is fairly flush. Visually, it looks ok but while rubbing my finger over that end I can feel the spring sits very very sligthly lower than the scale. It's actually more pronounced toward the middle if I'm going by touch.

 

[Spikediesel]

Maybe contact the maker to see if they’d be willing to swap the scales? A new set of scales or grinding down the springs to match (not an ideal fix) then refinishing them are the only options that I can see here.

 

[MililaniGrown]

Maybe contact the maker to see if they’d be willing to swap the scales? A new set of scales or grinding down the springs to match (not an ideal fix) then refinishing them are the only options that I can see here.

Thanks for the info! I was only going to bother with it if it was something I could fix on my own but it doesn't sound like it.

 

[Spikediesel]

If one had to choose between a nail file and a penknife blade on a Cadet X what would it be?

 

[MililaniGrown]

If one had to choose between a nail file and a penknife blade on a Cadet X what would it be?

I would prefer the nail file BUT old > new.

 

[Enkrig]

Nail file for me also.

 

[pipedreams308]

I like the new nail file.

 

[Lee D]

If one had to choose between a nail file and a penknife blade on a Cadet X what would it be?

Small blade, or even better imo, an awl

 

[Spikediesel]

Small blade, or even better imo, an awl

yup I’m with you! Perhaps a micro Farmer X?

here’s the mock up for the awl..

 

[Lee D]

yup I’m with you! Perhaps a micro Farmer X?

here’s the mock up for the awl..

I’d be MORE than happy with a mini
Pioneer X.

*and I really dig that orange. It’d be hard to lose that one.

 

[Wild Willie]

I’d be MORE than happy with a mini
Pioneer X.

This please!

 

[pipedreams308]

I dig the awl, too.