Every now and then someone who's read the stuff I wrote about Swiss Army knives writes to make sure I know about the ridiculous Victorinox super-knives, the SwissChamp XLT (which is just about still usable) and SwissChamp XXLT (which is really just a showpiece, though every now and then you find one on sale for a surprisingly reasonable price because some store accidentally got ten in, thinking they were products a human hand could actually hold).
Wenger, the now-wholly-owned-by-Victorinox second manufacturer of "genuine" Swiss Army knives, would appear to now have one-upped Victorinox in the monster-knife stakes, with...
...the Giant.
It's only a thousand dollars if you buy online!
(I'm pretty sure that one of those big plastic shop-window Swiss Army knives with the motorised blades that slowly go in and out will cost you rather less than the Giant, and be just as useful.)
4 July 2007 at 7:57 pm
If it were modular - as in you could selectively remove sections with reasonable effort - I could see possibilities. Otherwise it looks like something you would leave on the ground, noting he label: "face this side toward enemy"
4 July 2007 at 8:02 pm
I know it's meant to be for having and not using, but... damn.
5 July 2007 at 1:01 am
I find that a combination of my Swiss Army Cybertool 41 and my Leatherman Charge TTi are all that I need. But still... I could go for that.
5 July 2007 at 5:45 am
what the hell is the antenna for?
5 July 2007 at 6:21 am
It's for the seven-inch widescreen LCD TV on the other side of the knife, silly!
Actually, I initially thought it was a telescopic magnetic pick-up tool, but no - it's a telescopic pointer.
The Giant also has a laser pointer, of course!
5 July 2007 at 9:47 am
Ye gods.
I'll stick with the Leatherman, methinks. Even though it doesn't have a golf club face cleaner, a laboratory key or a part to adjust gunsights, somehow I've managed to survive this long in civilisation with it.
6 July 2007 at 3:39 pm
Ummm, where's the USB Drive?