Product Description

This knife set from Victorinox includes the Tinker and Swiss Army's most popular knife...the Classic. The Tinker comes with 6 handy implements with 12 features while the Classic offers 3 useful implements with 7 features! Sheathed in a red casing. 59057 , VICTORINOX TINKER / CLASSIC SD KNIFE , KNIVES , knife , multi knife

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66 in Sports & Outdoors
• Color: Red
• Brand: Victorinox
• Model: 56057
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Includes the Tinker and Swiss Army most popular knife--the Classic
• Tinker comes with 6 handy implements with 12 features
• The Classic offers 3 useful implements with 7 features
• Sheathed in red casing

Amazon.com Product Description
Swiss Army's most popular knife, the Classic SD, is combined with the 91mm Tinker to create a great set of Swiss Army knives that is perfect for anyone. The Tinker offers six tools and 12 features including a large blade, small blade, Phillips screwdriver, can opener, small screwdriver for Phillips screws, bottle opener, large screwdriver, wire stripper, reamer, key ring, tweezers, and toothpick. The Classic SD measures just 2-1/4 inches long--less than a pack of gum--and comes equipped with a blade, nail file, screwdriver, scissors, key ring, tweezers, and toothpick.

About Swiss Army Knives
In 1884, Swiss cutler Karl Elsener set up shop in Ibach-Schwyz, installing a waterwheel in Tobelbach Brook to run his grinding and polishing machines. Thus began what would become the international brand name Victorinox, a combination of Victoria, for Elsener's mother, and "inox," or stainless steel. Today, Victorinox produces watches, luggage, clothing, and, famously, Swiss Army Knives. The forerunner of that name dates to 1897, when Elsener patented the Swiss Officer's and Sports Knife he supplied to the Swiss Army. Following World War II, American servicemen and women shopping in PX stores shortened the name to Swiss Army Knife, which lives on in English-speaking countries around the world and has become a metaphor or versatility.

Customer Reviews

The knife for the serious tech worker.
For the busy technology professional, a good knife can be the single most used tool. The Victorinox Tinker is pretty close to perfect. It has the critical core screwdrivers -- flathead and Phillips -- as well as simple punch, pick, and tweezers. It is NOT a huge pocket-tearing monster. The biggest problem is not leaving this miniature workshop behind!

another argument for screwcaps
In the search for maximum function/minimum mass, Tinker leads the list. Wenger and Victorinox each make a dizzying array of combinations, most of which are simply too much steel to lug around. (For fun, check out the Wenger Giant: Wenger The Giant Knife.) Wenger no longer makes an exact corollary to the Tinker, though the Classic 11, which used to be the Highlander, and the discontinued but still available Teton, are close and excellent. Here on Amazon we have only Victorinox, and that means Tinker. 2 blades is useful only if you have no sharpener, and bottle openers are nearly obsolete, but a Phillips screwdriver is essential, and a second size straight screwdriver makes the nibbler can opener bearable. (For a real can opener, look at a Wenger or GI knife.) Next most useful tool would be pliers, that's a Deluxe Tinker, but pliers makes this a tool you try to keep handy in your pack or glovebox, not your jeans pocket. The Phillips blade obviates a corkscrew, which is no great loss because if you're carrying a glass wine bottle you can also carry a corkscrew, or you can push the cork in. The better answer is to buy from bottlers who embrace the better stopper, the inevitable universal stopper, screwcaps, and leave cork oaks in peace.

If paper dolls are the extent of your agenda, slimmer knives like the little Classic will work. To build a raft and get off the island, a Tinker is the sufficient minimum. For an ideal combination of tools at less bulk, Victorinox makes a Wenger-sized Tinker that I think is close to perfect for everyday. Victorinox Swiss Army Knife

A purple version or Mogen David on blue instead of Swiss cross on red would have been sweet, but this combination is a terrific bargain and only comes in classic garb.

Great knife for an unbelieveable price.
Great knife for a wonderful price. We are in the Civil Air Patrol and need such a knife for Emergency Services and it has everything but the kitchen sink. Quality is tops. Love it! We keep one in the glove compartment of the cars.