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Swiss Army Knives used in MacGyver episodes (2019)
- Hamuko 6y agoIs there an actual plot point for Mac carrying around a random Swiss army knife from what seems like a collection to rival the actual Swiss army, or did the producers just choose the easy way to do it?
- ladberg 6y agoI don't see how using a huge number of different knives instead of reusing the same one every episode is "the easy way to do it".
- Hamuko 6y agoI'm assuming they'd pick the knife based on what tools the plot requires Mac to have access to at any certain time.
- 082349872349872 6y agoon multiplicity of SAKs in the actual Swiss army: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108561
- ilovecaching 6y agoI recommend the Victorinox cybertool or the swiss tool/swiss tool spirit if you want the best SAK for an engineer. I collect them.
- TabTwo 6y agoMy parents gifted me a Cyber Tool M for my first IT gig. Still on my desk and used almost daily 25 years/5 jobs later.
- SBArbeit 6y agoI still carry a Swiss Army Knife because of that show. And I still find some reason to use it almost every day.
- wenc 6y agoI was a big fan of Victorinox growing up but I find Leathermans more useful to have around because they have pliers and Philips screwdrivers built in. I’ve done various home repair and auto stuff with it, which I doubt a Victorinox would be capable of. I picked up a Leatherman Wingman for $25 in Canada over a decade ago. It’s less portable than a Swiss Army knife (about twice as big) but If I had to pick a one tool, it would be the Leatherman. https://www.leatherman.com/wingman-11.html https://www.leatherman.com/wingman-11.html
- nmlnn 6y agoI actually switched from a Leatherman to a Victorinox because the pliers were more comfortable to use. https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/SwissTools/SwissTool-Spirit-X/p/3.0224.L https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/S...
- wenc 6y agoThat does look more comfortable than the Leatherman -- I wasn't aware Victorinox made multitools. I was a fan of Victorinox in the 80s and 90s so this must have been a more recent addition their lineup. Also it seems like higher-end Leathermans (similar to the price point of your SwissTool) have more comfortable grips. https://www.leatherman.com/surge-3.html?dwvar_3_color=10&cgid=multi-tools#start=1 https://www.leatherman.com/surge-3.html?dwvar_3_color=10&cgi...
- Lio 6y agoNot to contradict your opinion or the usefulness of Leathermans but I’ll just point out that the Victorinox Swiss Champ has both pliers and a Philips screw driver. Victorinox also make Leatherman style multitools. That must mean Leatherman are on to something though. Personally I prefer a SAK because it’s small and doesn’t have a locking blade. In many parts of the world simply having a locking blade in your pocket “without good reason”[2] will get you in trouble, whereas a SAK like a Swiss Champ is ok. 1. https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/Medium-Pocket-Knives/Swiss-Champ/p/1.6795 https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/M... 2. https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
- Daniel_sk 6y agoCheck out the Victorinox Signature Lite - it’s a very small keychain knife with a blade, scissors, pen (!), led light, nail file and screwdriver. It’s not longer than a regular door key and very light. You won’t even notice you are carrying it. I have had it with my keys for 10 years. https://www.victorinox.com/global/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/Small-Pocket-Knives/Signature-Lite/p/0.6226 https://www.victorinox.com/global/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Kni...
- FredrikSE 6y agoI also prefer the small ones. I have several(some new if I lose one) of the small Midnight Manger. Thats the perfect one for me as it has a philips screwdriver and bottle opener as well.
- neilv 6y agoI agree, the Victorinox Signature Lite is probably my allover favorite for light everyday carrying, and is my current one. Descending priorities: scissors, nail file, pen, knife blade, screwdriver, and flashlight. To add a Philips screwdriver, there's the Victorinox Midnite Manager. I've carried many models of Victorinox, in a few different colors, and two models of keychain Leathermans. I also carried a few of the Victorinox ones with USB flash drives, and made a multitool Linux distro for them: https://www.neilvandyke.org/lildeb/ https://www.neilvandyke.org/lildeb/ If you want a keychain multitool with pliers, the Leatherman Squirt PS4 is great. The corners of the Leatherman Micra destroyed my pockets, but the way the handles fold in that model means it's relatively better for keeping the blade from closing on your fingers if you're abusing it. These things are pretty tough, and I once used a Squirt in my fist to urgently hammer in the hinge pin of an old metal door I occasionally pine for one of the Victorinox RescueTools, which can be used to rescue someone from a car, or to escape from one yourself. They're a bit big to carry around all day, and I don't have a practical need where I live. They're also expensive to lose, if you get forget to leave it at home before a flight.
- isolli 6y agoIf I may ask, did you mean that scissors and a nail file are the most important tools for you, or the other way round? Because, going by descending priorities, I would have listed these items almost in the reverse order :)
- the-dude 6y agoCarrying knives has been made illegal by our city council in our city center. I break that 'law' every day. I carry a Ranger with locking blade.
- Lio 6y agoShows how memory can play tricks on you. I haven’t seen the show in years. I just assumed the character always used a Swiss Champ as that used to be a sort of unofficial standard for mountain climbers going to places like Everest.
- neilv 6y agoI'm still amused by one Swiss army knife anedcote. One place I worked as a software engineer, we had to carry lots of different physical keys (and, IIRC, a keycard), for getting among parts of the building, and even for going to the restroom. And a convention caught on of, when you sat down at a meeting, of putting your keyring on the table, so it didn't dig into your leg, ruin your trousers, etc. One day, two representatives of a Swiss company fly in for a meeting. Management and key engineers walk into the conference room, me and this other engineer put our keychains with red Swiss army knives on them on the table. I don't think she or I realized it before we did it, but, if someone didn't know the convention, I suppose it looked like we were displaying our Swiss army knives specifically to honor our guests from Switzerland.
- b0rsuk 6y agoThey made swiss army knives look disposable! Congrats!
- Roritharr 6y agoSAKs are the best example for an exercise in restraint. Buy one with too many features and you won't carry it everywhere with you, buy one with too little and you'll cover too few situations where it could be useful. Buying a new one is for me a very calming experience as I get to contemplate how I spent the last few years and how my life over the coming years is going to change.
- samatman 6y agoFor my personal carry, the overarching question is: pliers, or no pliers. For years and years, it was pliers. Last decade, no pliers. When I had the pliers, I used them all. the. time. But without them, I very seldom miss them. I don't have a good explanation for this, that's just how it is.
- codeulike 6y ago"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
- gonzo41 6y agoWhen i go hiking, I carry a SAK Bantam, One blade, and a can opener / flat head screwdriver. Very useful for dinner and tightening screws on my hiking poles. Though I haven't needed the wire strippers yet.
- TMWNN 6y agoI carry a Swiss+Tech multitool https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AY2WLU/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AY2WLU/ . Its pliers acts as a keychain, and no blade means I can keep it through airports.