What I also like about the Manager (and the Rambler) is that the blade opens on the other side than the key ring. This makes cutting easier if you have it on your key chain.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Sooooo much better than the way they have it on the Classic! 👍

“If I’m snorting cocaine it’s off the thighs of supermodels” best line ever in a SAK review…. Manager is my favorite SAK too, too bad they are being discontinued.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sir! Yeah I only just found out the Manager is discontinued!! Shocked! The best 58mm imho. I've got more than enough of them to see me out but it's a real shame they're gone.

I love the classic SD, been carrying one with me for 12 years. Personally I use the scissors and tweezers most often. I’ve made one small modification to it by using a micro engraver to add a ruler to the back of the nail file. The 58mms also make really great gifts, I’ve brought them for most of my family usually in the recipient’s favourite colour.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Cool! And yes definitely great as gifts - cute and useful 👍

I’m new to this. I bought a Huntsman yesterday, love it

@accoutrements4469

8 ай бұрын

Nice! The Huntsman is one of the best, especially for outdoors/in the woods where that saw can be so useful! Of course, you know ONE Swiss Army knife is never enough… 🤘lol

Just got the Victorinox manager it has made me smile more then my sebenza 21 has

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

Woah!! Ha ha, that’s great! I should imagine it makes u smile in a different way to your Sebenza! 👍✌️

@dalydoseoftoolstools6834

6 ай бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 for sure but Dont under estimatet its build its the best multi tool

@accoutrements4469

5 ай бұрын

Very glad to hear you like it!! 👍👍

Yes, manager or midnight manager is an excellent choice. But I do like the Alox classic as well for its thin design. Thank you.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

I LOVE the look and feel of the alox! Just wish there was a way to have the scale tools and pen with it... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Really fun these little buggers! During my college years I was a postman on the weekend & used a classic SD to cut plastic binders for about 4 years, it held up fine besides having to glue the celidor scales back on. Recently lost it :( Replaced it for an Alox Classic SD model, I had a weak spot for it after that. As they hold up to quite some use.

@accoutrements4469

Ай бұрын

Great to hear this! I honestly think these are all such useful tiny tools: plenty enough for most light duty tasks 👍

I prefer the Classic SD. It’s way thinner than the Manager without losing any important functionality. The Alex is nice, but I also use the toothpick and tweezers. Sometimes a knife can be too thin, creating greater pressure on one’s hands. Having a Classic SD on one’s keychain allows for fewer scales on their main knife. That’s just me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@jonnycapes

Жыл бұрын

Personally I find that small Phillips driver, the bottle opener and the pressurised pen much too valuable to not have them, but the standard Classic is brilliant as well - something for most tastes with Victorinox though isn’t there 🙂🫣

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

(that was my reply, above, but accidentally sent it from my other Pootube account - i'm always doing that, apologies)

I love the Victorinox Manager too, it’s one of my favorites, (I really love the Midnite Manager, the little flashlight is so handy!)

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I totally get it when folks say you can just use your phone’s flashlight, but imho there’s a lot to be said for just really quickly being able to whip one of these out for a really quick bit of light - much easier than mucking about with your phone I reckon 👍

@ingobohn

11 ай бұрын

The MM is also in my pocket every day.

@accoutrements4469

5 ай бұрын

Great little tool for sure :o)

Happy Friday Mr. A. FYI I have over 200 SAK's mainly Victorinox but including around 15 Wengers & 5 Swiss Buck Wengers. Of my 200+ SAK's some 110 are 58mm Classic SD's with decorative limited edition or advertising scales, 5 are Alox scaled 58mm's & I have 10 genuine 58mm Classics in a number of different coloured scales ie. they have nail files with a pointed nail cleaning tip. My first ever keyring SAK when I was 8 back in London where I was born & raised was a red 58mm Classic , as a child & a teen in London & later as a soldier in Israel ( I served 3 years as a conscript in the IDF ) I was none to kind on them & went through a number of them over the years and I have not carried one on my keyring for more than 20 years preferring to carry first the standard Mini-Champ, then the stndard Manager, then the Midnite Mini-Champ, then the Midnite Manager & currently a hybrid SilverTech scaled Midnight Mini-Champ . I sort of rotated my keyring SAK every five years going back & forth between variants of the Manager & the Mini-Champ . My keyring SAK is the fixed element of my pocket knife EDC - my 2nd knife is always a larger bladed one & not necessarily a Victorinox or a slip joint as I am a big fan of locking blade & flipper knives. I never carried any of my 58mm Classic SD's , Alox 58mm SD's or any of my Wenger 65mm keyring models preferring to keep them as collectables especially since Wenger is discontinued as is the annual set of 10 X 58mm Victorinox decorative scaled classic SD's as of 2021 .

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Wow that quite a collection you have there! I definitely like the Manager or midnight manager best from the 58mm range - just about the perfect tiny toolset for day to day stuff, but the others are useful too 👍 Thank you for commenting 🙂

@stevesinclair4159

Жыл бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 Happy Saturday Mr.A, a collection built up over 60 years

I like that the blade opens out on the manager

@accoutrements4469

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely! A much better design than on the Classic! 👍

Sir, you are correct.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, thank you! 👍

I've got the minichamp, i was looking for the manager, but curiously the minichamp was cheaper, and still it's very tiny, i have found uses even for the cuticle thingy, as small screwdriver or pry tool

@accoutrements4469

10 ай бұрын

U did well to find the minichamp cheaper than the manager! Mind you, the Manager is discontinued now so maybe prices will go higher for them as they become rarer? 🤷‍♂️

I always carry a Victorinox Compact. But the Alox Classic SD is such a beauty, that i had to buy one of these for my keys

@accoutrements4469

11 ай бұрын

Yes so slim and useful - I have the alox classic on my car keys at all times.

I am actually considering these options to pair with my Pioneer. If you had a Pioneer can opener/2d phillips driver, AND the manager with its 3d phillips, which would you use if you should encounter a phillips foe in the wild? On one hand, the stouter/thicker pioneer would provide better leverage and torque, however on the other hand, that phillips on the manager looks pretty capable and should bite better! That alox SD looks pretty nice too! So thin! Are the tools on the Classic alox thicker than a Classic SD like the 91mm vs 93mm tools? Thanks! Great videos!

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

You’re right about the extra torque with the pioneer but that little Phillips on the manager/rambler is really excellent and very capable! Plus the shape of the Manager means it’s really comfortable to use, plus the fact that it can reach really recessed screw makes it a fantastic screwdriver - I often reach for it in preference over proper actual dedicated screwdrivers as it reaches into hard to access places. The tools in the Alox Classic are exactly the same dimensions as in the other 58mm models.

@RippinBlastinSlashin

Жыл бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 interesting, thanks for the reply!

@miklospinter

Жыл бұрын

I usually carry a Pioneer, and I have Jetsetter on my key chain. The Jetsetter has the scissors, Phillips, tweezers and toothpick, but it has no blade (which I never need, I also have other knives on me) and no file (which I hardly ever need), and it's noticeably thinner than the Manager/Rambler. (You could upgrade the Jetsetter to have scales with a pen if you need that instead of the tweezers or toothpick.) This combo works well for me.

I thought it couldn't get better after the cocaine spoon.... Then this dude hit us with the greatest line in SAK review history 😂

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

Ha ha, thanks, Sir! 👍

I prefer a rambler anytime! It is not as bulky as the manager yet almost thin as classic sd! It comes with the marvelous screwdriver/bottle opener tool.

@jonnycapes

11 ай бұрын

I love the rambler too, but having that pen on the Manager is far too valuable to not have it there for me personally ✌️

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

(that was my reply, above, but accidentally sent it from my other Pootube account - i'm always doing that, apologies)

Sir, you should let yourself go more often, still chuckling! Great review !

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Sir!

Great SAK have twelve of them and a mini champ.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Yesssss - 12 - That’s awesome! Such useful tiny tools! 👍

Alox Rambler is my favourite but you can’t get it any more. But I managed to get some titanium scales to mod my own.

@accoutrements4469

9 ай бұрын

Yeah the alox Rambler is sweeeeeeeeet!

These days finding a Victorinox Manager is so hard.. So I'm buying a Rambler and a Signature to make myself a Manager... Hope I don't mess up the scale swap... 😅😅😅

@accoutrements4469

3 ай бұрын

Yeah combining a Signature and Rambler is the only solution now… scale swapping is easy though - have u done it yet?

@KingKaze0515

2 ай бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 yeah I've successfully done the scale swap... Unfortunately there was a crack on the scale... But I've manage to remove it safely and put some glue on the crack... Now the "manager" lives permanently on my keychain... 👌👌👌

@accoutrements4469

Ай бұрын

Yeeeeesss! The Manager - still to this day probably my most carried SAK! Glad you got yours sorted! I’ve just tracked down where I last bought some 58mm scales with the pen slots here: www.schweizer-messer-store.de/p/griffschalen-58-mm-kugelschreiber It’s a German site so I had to use google translate with some difficulty in seeing it through but verrrry cheap and fully legit so try that as an option if you need any more scales (not sure how long they will continue to have stock for).

My favourite is a non Alox, pre SD Classic. The scissors are a bit small at times.

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

The small scissors are great as a back up though- good for cutting nails and other small tasks 👍

Bro classic sd Best 👍💯

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Oooooof, controversial! Lol Manager for me - more useful tools IMHO. Different strokes for different folks tho ✌️

The pink one is the ‘classic’ -- I sure you know the sd stands for screwdriver - thanks 👍

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info!

Do the Alox versions feature stiffer springs giving them more retention?

@jonnycapes

Жыл бұрын

Hiya, no I’ve never noticed any difference in spring tension between the 58mm Alox vs Celidor models. ✌️

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

(that was my reply, above, but accidentally sent it from my other Pootube account - i'm always doing that, apologies)

Such a shame the manager is discontinued

@accoutrements4469

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely! One of the very best imho 😞

A shame the Manager is not available anymore. Midnight manager is though

@accoutrements4469

2 ай бұрын

Aye, the Midnite is very expensive though, for the inclusion of a not terribly great led light 🤷‍♂️

You can modify it if you want to 😊

@accoutrements4469

Ай бұрын

Never done any modding - not sure I’ve got the proper tools or patience! lol Have you done much?

is minichamp part of the 58mm line? thanks

@accoutrements4469

Ай бұрын

Yes it is, but for me personally it has far too many redundant tools to make me want to have one 🤷‍♂️

@franksterkb891

Ай бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 true. I love the rambler too but the thing is, the variety of the colors is limited and it’s hard to find an alox version

@accoutrements4469

19 күн бұрын

Yeah alox Ramblers only available from custom makers - such a shame!

Are these of any pratical use ? Definitely yes !! But not for eating. However a french youtuber called ''La tanière de JR'' says he uses a 58mm Victorinox to eat. :)

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

Oooof I don’t think I’d want to eat with one… with that tiny blade… I suppose it’s possible if that’s all you had though! 🤷‍♂️

@tm2bow653

Жыл бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 Here at 4:30 kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6ykma2PobWYeqg.html He says he cuts cheese and saucisson (french dry sausage) with his 58 mm. :)

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

@@tm2bow653 I suppose if the blade is about 1.5” you’d have a max cutting depth of 3” if you were cutting a circular cross-section object like a sausage, so doable I guess 🤷‍♂️ Easier to just bite it! 😬

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

@@tm2bow653 thank you for posting the link! 👍

@tm2bow653

Жыл бұрын

@@accoutrements4469 As he shows it in the video (without showing the sausage) he makes a rotation around the sausage with the knife to be able to cut it. :) Well I agree it's a little bit complicated. I prefer 84mm knifes for that... (It's not so easy to bit a french saucisson, they can be quite hard sometimes).

Practical mean's more tools. At this size, 3mm isn't worth saving to lose scale tools.

@accoutrements4469

Жыл бұрын

I have to agree - I love the look, feel and durability of alox but those scale tools are too useful to sacrifice for me. Thank you for the comments! 🙂

2:40 bro needed an MRE

@accoutrements4469

10 ай бұрын

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Why do you speak so low? Hardly heard.

@accoutrements4469

6 ай бұрын

Turn your speaker up! 🤣 seriously though, I didn’t think the overall volume was particularly low on this 🤷‍♂️