Victorinox Waiter
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- If you're looking for a simple knife that is centers around beverage opening, this may be the knife for you. The simplistic design, light weight, and 84mm frame size make this a very pocket friendly option.
With the combination bottle/can opener and integrated corkscrew, you'll be the go to person for popping open those beverages. A nicely sized knife blade, tweezer, toothpick, and screwdrivers just add to the functionality of this knife. A knife that doesn't try to do too much, just the tasks you need the most, this is the Victorinox Waiter.
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I have a waiter for about a year. It stays with my car keys (it's really light).
I use it daily and I think it's the best SAK compromise (between size and tools available).
I have a lot of knives but what I really like about the waiter (and SAK generally) is that you can take and use them almost everywhere, with no one looking at you like you are some sort of assasin
This should be THE Victorinox flagship knife. If you think of the iconic imagery associated with Swiss Army Knives, the blade (obviously!), the crab claw tool and the corkscrew, it’s what everyone would think of when the think of Swiss Army Knives.
It’s simple and just works period, thanks Ben.
Yes sir.
I have a Waiter, made in 1984. There´s no toothpick and no tweezer. Bought it in Caloundra, at that time a small seaside town in Queensland. The knife is my daily companion.
Perfect gift for my wine-loving son-in-law. Thanks!
I got one of these with the nylon scales as my first knife of my parents alot of years ago, this brings back nostalgic memory's
That's the great thing about SAK's. I think most boys get a Vic as their first blade. I know I did.
one of my favorites
add small screwdriver to corkscrew for final touch
Good suggestion.
you can also put the pin in the pin hole on newer knives
My favorite bottle opener on a multitool is the Gerber Dime's (relatively) huge one on the outside.
That's the easiest to get to, even for opening your 5th beer :D
I agree. I have always like the large mouth bottle opener on the Dime. It's one of it's best features. I especially like that it is frame integrated.
Thanks. It’s a nice, lightweight tool for picnics.
I have the Handyman and love it because it packs so many useful and functional tools. But it is heavy and not pocket friendly. I then picked this up and am loving it. It's great for my beer or wine sessions 😉😊 and it's very very compact. Great review by the way 👍
Thank you.
@@txtoolcrib "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more."
~ HOLY BIBLE, Proverbs 31:6, 7
I have a black one that I use at home in my pocket. Blade is fine for most tasks and it's overall light and compact. The combo opener is a good kitchen pry bar for these cans or stubborn packages and the corkscrew, although basically useless for me since I don't drink wine, loads the handy micro-driver - plus, people say that the corkscrew is useful to untie knots also. As usual, Victorinox knives really becomes more useful for more people than intended.
You said it. Always find multiple uses for a Vic.
My first SAK!
It's so light and the right length for EDC purpose for me
Minimalist, with a surprising amount of uses.
I need this tool. Whenever I'm at parties I often find myself in need of a bottle opener and I have to go about asking people for a bottle opener continuously. The corkscrew is a good plus when wine is on the menu and, as always, a knife is always handy. This is also with the added bonus of it being small enough for a keychain.
Never seen this one. I have the sportsman in the 84mm size and enjoy it. It's definitely a nice size to just drop in the pocket. Great review 👍
The victorinox recruit is honestly my favorite SAK. I’ve looked at others but I really can’t behind the rear tools.
I picked that one up as well.
It works pretty good as a can opener. I use my compact as my kitchen knife at home lol. Has everything you need. No searching for fancy tools to open drinks, or packaging. I take it with me to parties, and gatherings too because I can have the wine/beer/canned food open before people can find where they put their dedicated food openers, or scissors. Also because I don't have to ask to get something open ;P
Another great review. Thank you
Thank you.
Nice video as usual. I like micro screwdriver in corkscrew and a pin in that little hole behind.
Indeed. Even more useful.
Unfortunately, it can not be made in alox version because alox knifes can not have back tools. So no corckscrew... Only knife and combo tool and that is Bantam alox...
I do drink wine and I only open my wine bottles with my SAKs, since I have more than 50 of them in my collection. The Waiter is excellent for me. If you don’t need the corkscrew and would rather choose alox versus plastic scales, the Cadet is your knife, not the Waiter.
love my SAK,have it on me for 12 years now
1:03 - Depends how look: the bottle cap lifter is not a tool per si, is a "apêndice" to the medium flat screwdriver. 😉
When I was a young buck I used to take usually a Spartan to parties because even if you weren't drinking wine opening women's bottles of wine was a great ice breaker and there were never enough findable corkscrews at a party. Beyond the obvious uses the flathead/wirestripper was useful for recovering corks that had been pushed down the neck of the bottle. They should have kept the longer corkscrew on just this Waiter model though as it was slightly easier to open with that corkscrew.
The combo tool works very well as a can opener. But you have to go in the other direction than with their regular one.
I want to try it against some other styles to see which one works the best.
I could not get used to opening the cans with the regular Vic can opener, so I used my wave until I bought a compact, used in the same direction as the one on the wave it performs very well.
It was just my bday and I got the Leatherman rebar and mixes and also the rovyvon ax1
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Nice. Which one do you like the best?
@@txtoolcrib Well the rebar is great and the rovyvon is great fr getting back at my annoying sister... it has a strobe mode...
If you need a bottle cap lifter on a multitool to open your beer, than either you don´t deserve your beer or a multitool.
Good point.
Well I'd use a the pliers to open the bottle cap... Just my two bits
The Alox Bantam is as close as you can get to an Alox Waiter.
The 84 mm Alox scales are too thin for a corkscrew, and they don't use any back tools on Alox at all.
Ahhhh yeah, that's right. I forgot that there are no back tools. Good observation.
The alox bantam is pretty sweet... such an amazingly thin and light “gentleman’s” knife. The alox is classy and there is just so much functionality in that combo tool. I’d also like to see a cadet-sized SAK with the nail cleaner, scissors, combo tool and knife. In my opinion, that would be the ultimate gentleman’s knife. The regular cadet is great, but trading the can opener for scissors is a no-brainer, considering the personal grooming tasks we use small tools like this for.
@@FreedomFox1 Unfortunately, Victorinox has retired the scissors for their 84 mm line a long time ago... Although many people would want to have the Voyageur back, and many would like to see a Cadet X...
(The tool set you described would have a half layer because the scissors can not go into the place of the can opener.)
@@miklospinter I see, so a 3-layer Cadet X is the closest equivalent... although I suppose an alox version of the Compact would keep it to 2 layers. Victorinox does have the old Wenger scissors in their 85 mm line, but those are significantly beefier than the 84 mm (and of course not alox).
@@FreedomFox1 Yes, I believe they don't even think about bringing back the 84 mm scissors because of the Evo-line. Many people like the Wenger scissors, but I don't, because they move up and down whle cutting - that drives me crazy.
The "Alox version of the Compact" did exist in the last century: blade, combo tool, scissors, 84 mm. Basically a "Bantam X", but it was called Voyageur. But that had no file / nail cleaner as you listed (which I wouldn't mind at all).
They do have an alox version. The Bantam.
Both are different model (Bantam is Waiter without corkscrew)
So, the Bantam is the one which has Alox version
Does not need the tweezers/toothpick, but a pen would have been more logical !
What do you think about Sportsman?
That is one I have not had the chance to use yet, but I do like the size of those knives for their ultra pocket-friendliness.
I like sportsmen! They are just like gentlemen, true sports.
Mut, signal, skeletool have exterior caplifters
So does the Dime.
@@txtoolcrib Yes so all 4 of them are better for BBq in the examle you gave with the wave
Is there a whole for a strait pin by the corkscrew like there is on the compact?
Yes, there is.
Does Victorinox make any alox scales for corkscrew knives?
Not to my knowledge.
@@txtoolcrib Maybe Swissbianco will come up with one soon! Cheers!
Whats your every day carry set up?
I just recently changed it. My Leatherman Super Surge, Olight Warrior Mini, and a ZT 0470. On my keychain I have a toothpick tube and a pair of Tweeztwo tweezers.
Ah yes, the alcoholic edition. 😎😎
le tire bouchon sert à défère les lacets de foot mouiller!!!
Wassup!