VICTORINOX Swiss Pocket Knife Forester M, 10 Functions, Multi Tool with Large Blade, Tin Opener, Screwdriver 3 mm, Single Hand, Red/Black

I have a pretty substantial amount of knives in my collection anywhere from $10 to $300 WE knives. This is one of my favorites along with the Trekker. It’s always good to have extra tools on you. You never know when you need them. I love going hiking and camping. This thing is an amazing bushcraft knife. Blade razor sharp out of the box, just push cuts even receipt paper. The saw works fantastic. Even the awl makes short work of drilling holes in wood. I’ve used this knife to make Bushcraft tables, chairs, simple shelters, etc.I used to buy knives with the expensive steel magnacut, S35VN, etc because I wanted better edge retention… and you know what, I actually am starting to prefer the Victorinox. They nailed this steel. You can take these out for a weekend hiking camping, whittle, bushcraft, use them kind of hard just stripping branches and taking off a lot of wood, and they are still plenty sharp. That’s good enough edge retention for me. These things have yet to chip on me even cutting some hard stuff. If you need to sharpen them in the field, You can strop them against your pants to get it back to working sharp or worst case a flat rock. Any pocket size portable field sharpener will get them back to razor sharp in minutes if you need to. My 11-year-old can sharpen these things to hair shaving sharp without even trying on a $15 Victorinox duel edge sharpener. I kind of find that preferable to these steels that hold an edge a lot longer, but they’re much more difficult to sharpen and chip easier from my experience when you hit something hard, and you end up investing a lot of money in a Whetstones and sharpeners to get them hair shaving sharp. I like sharpening knives, I have all the expensive stuff, so I don’t mind but it’s also not something I want to be doing in the field with all that. I find I much prefer a knife I can get razor sharp quickly on the fly with minimal equipment and keep it that way as long as I need to, especially an outdoors knife. I literally am just stropping this on my jeans after I use it and it stays sharp. By the way, that video was after 2 hours of using it carving wood feather sticks and I just stropped it on my jeans back to papercut sharp. Yes it’s that easy. Try that with s90vn. If you just strop them a little after you use them, you don’t need to sharpen them that much. I can’t count how many times it’s been handy to have a screwdriver on me, even the Phillips head on the can opener works on almost every Phillips screw I’ve tried it on, tweezers, the flathead pry bar, etc. Even the corkscrew is amazing just for undoing knots or just using it to screw my knife into a tree to hold stuff up.. all things I don’t have with my other EDC knives. They open plenty fast one-handed. I honestly feel like I’m unprepared only caring a folder with me now without all these extra tools that come in handy. I upgraded the scales to navy camo with tweezers and a firefly flint fire starter with a pocket clip from Etsy. And I’m gonna say the only downside of this knife is the tip is not as pointy as my other knives. You can still stab through things. It just takes a little extra force. And yes, you can regrind the tip to make it sharper, however the positive of the way it comes is the tip also doesn’t break if you wanna stab it into some hardwood or something that might break a sharper finer tip. I don’t think twice about jamming my knife into anything and worry about the tip breaking. I’m actually OK with it the way it is. It works just fine puncturing through most stuff with a little force, and meat and veggies and bread easy. If you needed it to, it’s fast enough to open and pointy enough to work for self defense if you had nothing else. The only thing it doesn’t do good puncturing is really soft flexible stuff like an empty 2 L bottle that bends alot . But you have other tools that will like the awl if you really need to. Overall this and the Trekker have become pretty much 90% my EDC knives now. Only differences the forester cuts cleaner, but the serrations on the trekker are better at cutting harder, fibrous things and they stay sharper a lot longer, but it’s harder to sharpen in the field if you needed to, but you would really have to be working that knife awhile to need to. Victorinox has come a long way. These things are amazing. Out of my whole collection if I was able to only take one knife with me anywhere it would be this one.

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Producto de gran calidad, bien por Victor inox y bien por Acerinox.

Another top class product.Functional, durable and well designed.Thanks Victorinox! 👍🍀💚

Très bonne qualité. Lame bloquante, affûtée rasoir. Très bonne scie. Le tournevis/ouvre bouteille se bloque lui aussi.Revêtement avec un très bon grip. J'aime beaucoup, il est à ma ceinture chaque jour.