Top 10 production knives of 2009 – Victorinox Soldier / Heritage

Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: Thomas | Filed under: Tactical steel & outdoors magic | 2 Comments »

 

Out of the 9 knives preceding it, this knife has had the largest effect on the cutlery world, its also the most expensive and the smallest folder on my list.

I present to you the Victorinox Heritage folding pocket knife! This is the knife that started all swiss army knives after it and this modern replica by Victorinox faithfully follows the original design.

Lets get the price out of the way first, its 500$. Yes. 500$.

But its beautiful and completely worth it and not owning it is killing me so lets move on to the specifics!

It features the now common stainless steel regular swiss made spearpoint blade, comes with ebony wood scales, pinned construction and 125 years of history!

The history is why one would covet this knife, and the reason you would purchase it.

Although if I owned one, I would use it as an everyday carry knife too. While the price and limited availability would entice you to treat it as a safe queen and not use it I feel this would be a huge disservice to its original intentions and existence.

This was the original tactical knife, long before double edge automatic daggers and G-10 scales actual soldiers used to depend on these small, non locking folders.

 

History is beautiful<3

 

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