The Swiss Outdoorsman

A couple of days ago, Crumby's Wenger LL Bean Swiss Outdoorsman arrived.  Crumby felt like he needed this particular sak for his collection.   Why?  Because this model houses a lock blade, a flat Phillips screwdriver and the mysterious fish scaler with line guide or line-guide.    Alas,  the line guide or line-guide flaunts Crumby's collecting guideline, "use or theoretically would use" because Crumby has no clue regarding the function of a line guide or line-guide.  Nevertheless, with the acquisition of these three tools,  Crumby's 85mm Wenger sak tool collection is probably complete.

The three new tools are OK except that the flat Phillips is slightly boogered up, featuring a small tool use notch.  Course the mysterious line guide or line-guide may be boogered too.  Who would know?  Yet all is not well with the sak in general.

It arrived well packaged,  but took a beating some time before it got wrapped up.  The tweezer was stuck in its slot so tightly that Crumby levered off a piece of the scale while digging it out.  That's the larger piece of scale above the tweezer (upper left).

Alas also, the tooth pick was crammed about 3mm  into its slot.  Crumby had to partially remove the scale to get the toothpick out.  Turns out the head of the toothpick is missing.  Which is why the toothpick was able to root down so low. The smaller piece of scale, also upper left above, came off during the toothpick retrieval procedure.

Meantime,  Crumby heated a cup of water in the microwave to facilitate the loosening of the scale for the toothpick operation.  The idea is to immerse the knife in hot water.  The hot water softens the scales, allowing for their removal with minimal damage to the parts of the scale affixed to the pins or liners.  Yet, Crumby was shocked when he noted that the water in the cup was turning green.  Yes.  The green paint on the scales was dissolving into the water, for goodness sake.  There's some of the green water spilled on the paper towel.  This had never happened to Crumby previously with Victorinox saks.  Guess Wenger scales are different.

Oh well.  Despite all these adventures, Crumby is happy anyway.  Happier with this hobby sak than with his Omron blood pressure tester anyway. And one final remark.  The flat screwdriver features an engraved Phillips screw,  thus informing many what the flat screwdriver may be good for.  Crumby really likes those Wenger tool engravings.  Too bad there's no similar engraving for the line guide or line-guide.