How to Close a Swiss Army Knife
I was looking through the manual for my new sapphire Victorinox Cybertool 34 and found this to be enlightening:
It’s a pretty neat tool, though it is a bit much to carry around in my pocket. Luckily, my Wenger Synergy backpack has a special pocket specifically for Swiss Army knives (but I feel like a traitor putting a Victorinox product in there).
The coolest part of all, perhaps, is that it has a T10 Torx bit. About the same time last year, I had a hellish time locating such a bit (thanks in part to misinformation on the Web) so that I could install a new hard drive in my iMac G5.
February 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYe_FzoBxN4
This video is the way I was shown when I was given my first knife at around 8 years old (I’ve still got it - it stars in this video and it will reach the ripe old age of 20 this summer). It is a technique handed down from my father, and so on back through the ages. It helps stop you accidentally cutting your fingers off - by pushing the backside of the blade with the palm of your hand - fingers are well clear. (plus, it’s a Victorinox!).