r/SAKmod

91mm titanium scale what are your thoughts is it worth it?

I’m currently building my own SAK mod: a hybrid of a 58 mm Victorinox Mini-Champ and a 65 mm Wenger Nail Clip. So everything’s already assembled and working perfectly, but now comes the next step: riveting everything neatly in place, and that’s exactly where the challenge lies. I’m looking for tips and tricks on how to rivet everything together. Any ideas? Any advice? Perhaps a video showing how to rivet the brass axles to the brass rings...

I had a set of custom rosewood plus scales made, added a quick detach leather lanyard I tied, and used brown RIT dye on the pen, tweezers, toothpick, and micro driver to tie it all together. I’m very pleased with the way it all turned out. I believe this will be my daily driver for a while.

L to R - Classic, Rambler, Minichamp with Classic scales, Minichamp.

After I built my Old Cross Synergy, I wanted to make some more Alox mods. I had an Elinox Pioneer with terribly worn and sharpened blade and a snapped awl, the Bugnard Elinox Pruner, with ugly but manageable blades, a blue Pioneer X, I never warmed up with, a Combo tool from a Compact and the Synergy X scissors.

I played it out in my head, how to spread the tools, to make two awesome saks.

The first one I named now Elinox Alox Pioneer 2 X. Elinox, because all of the tools, except for the scissors are from the Elinox era, Pioneer 2, because just like the Cadet 2 it has two blades. In the Cadet 2, the small blade replaces the nailfile, in my Pioneer 2, the small blade replaces the awl. The X should be obvious.

I reused the openers from the original Pioneer, added the blades from the Bugnard Pruner and the Synergy X scissors. All the backsprings liners and keyring attachment came from the blue PX, so it has an even look on the back, and not differently scratched up springs.

I couldn't reuse the brass liner, because I had only one, so I made the best of it, and installed it with the original awl spacer into my next mod.

The Sturdy Yoyageur. I took the word Sturdy from an earlier name of the Pioneer, Sturdy Boy, and added it to the 84mm version with the same tools, Yoyageur. I think a beefed up and slightly bigger Yoyageur can be called Sturdy Yoyageur.

For this, I used the original backspring for the blade layer, the Synergy X backspring, flipped 180°, because the 93mm Alox is symmetrical, the mentioned brass liner and spacer, the blade and the scissors from the blue PX and the combo tool from the Compact, drilled out to 3mm and installed with a 0,3mm thick washer, to compensate its thinness.

The third, I just show current pics of. I made it some months ago, nicknamed it Grandfather/Grampa Synergy, and made a post about it already. (still my favorite)

The second to last pic shows the screws I used, they are both M2, but since the middle hole is smaller, than the the outer ones, I didn't want the middle screws sticking out to much, or the outer screws to be sunken in to much. So I used the screw in the left for the middle pivots, and the version on the right for both ends. Now they all have almost the same hight and look identical, when installed, without the need for drilling into vintage scales. You can see, what I mean, in the last pic.

The pivots are from Etsy. I first bought, two sets of the 9mm version, from a Vietnamese modder, the 12mm version, I bought later, from an Ukrainian modder, who ships from Poland. So you can pick from two sellers, whoever ships cheaper to your country. The quality is about the same and pretty good. M2 screws are easy enough to find on Ebay.

What to mod next? 🤔

I followed a ‎⁨Felix Immler⁩  project and turned the bottle opener on my Swiss Army Knife into a small gouge. With this little gouge, it is the only tool one might need to do wood carving for items such as spoons while out in the woods. It is not that great of a gouge, but it definitely works.

I also modified the pen blade to have a straight cutting edge. This Camper knife with the modified blade, gouge, and saw makes for a complete tool kit!

It works just as well as Victorinox tweezers

Con la ayuda de la lima de mi swisstool Modifiqué el desarmador plano trasero de mi Champ para recibir puntas de 1/4. Embona a la perfección en un set de bits universal.

La punta del desarmador la corté para que no quitara de su lugar el imán dentro del porta bits. Queda muy bien, funcional y sin juego.