Victorinox Knives | Swiss Army Multi Tools

As part of the company's 125th Anniversary celebration, Victorinox reissued this classic version of its first Soldier knife. Manufactured for the Swiss Army beginning in 1891, the Soldier knife was the first multi-purpose pocket knife developed in Switzerland. Its assortment of practical blades outfitted the modern infantryman of the day with ...

The Boy Scout version of the Victorinox Swiss Army Explorer features the same versatile set of blades and tools and includes the emblem of the Boy Scouts of America on the red Cellidor handle.

The Explorer's tools will interest solitary travelers as well as troop members. Only 3-1/2 ...

This 8-inch forged bread knife from Victorinox is a perfect size for small loaves, bagels, and rolls, but not quite enough blade for large homemade breads. If you do a lot of sandwich prep, it's a handy tool and more than enough knife.

The serrated edge of this blade isn't ...

The Victorinox Curved Bread Knife with 8-inch forged blade and POM handle is a better size for rolls and bagels than large loaves. This is a slightly new approach to serrated edges and doesn't work the same way new owners may expect.

Instead of sawteeth, the Victorinox curved bread knife incorporates a ...

This basic Victorinox 7-Piece Knife Block Set includes four useful knives from the stamped steel and Fibrox line of Victorinox cutlery. Lightweight but high quality, these practical knives are one of the best cutlery bargains available.

Aside from the standard block set tools of kitchen shears and honing steel, ...

This forged boning knife from Victorinox has some definite advantages over lighter, stamped steel versions. The boning knife is a tricky thing to get right -- the blade needs flexibility and a narrow style like a fillet knife, but also needs enough strength for twisting turning in tough ...

The Victorinox Cimeter brings back an older butcher knife design more familiar to hunters than to most chefs. This 14-inch knife has the blade length necessary for quickly dividing large carcasses and large cuts of meat, along with an upswept point well-designed for piercing.

The more familiar butcher knife pattern uses ...

The stamped blades of Victorinox knives match the performance of more expensive forged designs but come up short on looks -- unless you like black synthetic handles. If you'd prefer something nicer but with the same light, high-performance blades, consider this 3-Piece Chef's Set featuring handle slabs of genuine ...

The 17 items in this Forged Knife Block Set from Victorinox (maker of the famous Swiss Army Knife in its many forms) do cover most needs in the kitchen as well as during dining service. Eight fine steak knives make the major difference between this set and the efficient ...

Much of the work that produced this 8-piece Knife Block Forged set from Victorinox actually happened in Solingen, the cutlery capitol of Germany. Forged from German high carbon stainless steel, the knives undergo final shaping and polishing in Switzerland.

The fundamentals of these knives match the quality of ...

Part of the very practical and economical line of stamped steel knives from R.H. Forschner / Victorinox, the 10-inch Butcher Knife with black Fibrox handle now sports the granton grind of a modern santoku.

In theory, the multiple hollows of a knife's granton decrease surface contact between knife and food. Reducing ...

A chef's knife with a 12-inch cutting edge is a little beyond the range of most people, since a classical knife that large is too heavy for most to use comfortably, and a good forged knife of that size costs a pretty penny. The 12-inch Chef's Knife from R.H. Forschner/Victorinox ...

Victorinox's Chinese Cleaver with walnut handle isn't the butcher's cleaver western chefs know. This lighter version of the butcher's blade is the Asian equivalent of the chef's knife, the workhorse blade that an expert uses to dance through nearly every common kitchen chore.

Smaller than you'd expect a cleaver to ...

This Butcher's Knife from R.H. Forschner Victorinox uses the same simple and reliable construction as the rest of the Victorinox line, with laser-cut high carbon stainless steel blade and tang and a rugged handle of black Fibrox. Chosen by professional chefs as well as homemakers, the Butcher's Knife offers heavy ...

Victorinox's Restaurant Cleaver offers professional quality at a bargain price. The Forschner version of this traditional kitchen knife cuts back only a little on size and weight, resulting in a blade that matches the needs of modern home kitchens.

With a blade only 2-1/2 inches wide and 7 inches long and a ...

Victorinox makes the classic Swiss Army Knife in a multitude of forms--on their website you can even design your own, choosing the features you want from a list of tools and blades. Nearly any combination is now a named product. The Hercules (4 3/8" closed length) is a pocket toolset more ...

Most of us who hike today carry quite a bit of gear with us. The necessary modern philosophy of "pack it in, pack it out" requires that. Instead of building shelters on the spot, for example, we carry tents, and those as well as the many other essential pieces of our ...

Victorinox's 5.1" folded length Ranger, with a main knife blade almost 4" long and forged from high carbon stainless steel, ranks as an all around camp knife as well as the usual pocket tool kit. The clip point blade locks in place when fully extended. The 7 tool, ...

Usually with Swiss Army Knives you get excellent quality, multiple functions, and somewhere among them a stainless steel knife blade that's missing something. The Parachutist corrects some of that with a blade that's stouter than most in this line of pocket toolkits, and going one step farther, includes a locking feature ...

The multi-tool of the future is going to be focused more and more on technological repairs. Mending fences and tinkering with an old engine are becoming, in a word, passé. This is just another sign of our drastically changing times. For many people who carry a multi-tool, ...

A sunny day. A large, comfy blanket. Some eating utensils, paper plates, napkins, and a wicker basket filled with sandwiches, fruit, cheeses, wine, and something for dessert. This, and your Victorinox Picnicker, is all you will need to pull off a wonderful afternoon outing.

The Picnicker has everything that you ...

This Swiss Army Rambler is grouped under Victorinox's line of small, elegant pocket-tools. At only 2 1/4-inch long, the classic red handle will fit comfortably out of the way in a pants pocket or, with the keychain attachment, on a key ring - whatever allows you to keep it close ...

One single stainless steel blade. You may think this is a rare defect of Swiss precision craftsmanship - surely they forgot to attach the small blade and the can opener and the multi-purpose hook. Where's the toothpick and tweezers? No saw, no reamer, no scissors nor pliers nor ...

This Swiss Army Rambler is grouped under Victorinox's line of small, elegant pocket-tools. At only 2 1/4-inch long, the classic red handle will fit comfortably out of the way in a pants pocket or, with the keychain attachment, on a key ring - whatever allows you to keep it close ...

Victorinox understands that instilling safe knife practices at an early age will equal future customers down the road. The philosophy is: get 'em early, make sure they don't kill themselves, and you've taught another generation of knife lovers the value of a Swiss Army knife.

I remember my first ...

Victorinox knives have been to outer space - did you know that? They have been to the heart of jungles, across the desert sands, over the arctic tundra, and circumnavigated the globe on boats, planes, and hot air balloons. I know at least six people personally who have a Swiss ...

The Victorinox Tinker is appropriately named. Imagine tinkering around with a broken flashlight or an old portable radio - imagine the tools you would most likely need - and you could complete the job with everything found on this Swiss Army pocket knife.

There are half a dozen implements with a ...

There isn't anything new or strange or different about this Victorinox Swiss Army Secretary Pocket knife, and therefore not much to say -- but, what there is to be said, should be more than enough to rush out and purchase this knife. Just make sure it's the Victorinox that you're ...

As far as Swiss Army knives go, this Victorinox model embodies the word "classy." It's the Victorinox Cigar Knife, and is a great choice for any cigar aficionado that wouldn't mind carrying a few extra tools along with a cigar knife in one sleek little package.

Obviously the main feature ...

The last thing anyone thinks of, when heading off for the first tee, is the quality of their golf tool. But consider that golf is a game of focus, and it's the little things that can affect your round's score. Being unable to find a ball marker could ...

It's all in the name. This Victorinox Swiss Army pocket knife is designed to manage the various situations which arise at midnight, or any time and place with less than lackluster lighting. A very handy red LED light offers pretty good illumination when you need it most. A ...

Turns out computers are a big deal these days. Who would have figured? Well, in this technological day and age, pocket knives are changing to fit the needs of the new consumer. Surviving in the wild is not so important anymore, but surviving if your computer crashes ...

Whenever someone asks me which three things I would want if stranded on a desert island, I always answer: 1) A desalinator 2) SAS Survival Handbook by John "Lofty" Wiseman 3) the Victorinox Swiss Champ SOS Set.

This Swiss Army knife with the included accessories is going to appear ...

It's my personal opinion that no one should go anywhere without a pocket knife. Victorinox certainly shares my philosophy, and they have come out with a line of knives designed to fit an overlooked niche: the corporate workplace.

The Victorinox Executive -- aimed at those working the daily grind in office ...

As yet there's no laser pointer but this newer model pocket knife / toolkit from Victorinox does have an LED light and a ballpoint pen. Anything this versatile really does go past the definition of knife. The worst thing you might do with this in the woods is lose ...

The year is full of gift-giving occasions, and if you have an outdoorsman that needs shopping for, look no further than the Victorinox line of pocket knives. This package set Camper with Microlight is an ultimate stocking-stuffer, birthday present, or Valentine surprise.

At only 3.5 inches in length, the Camper holds ...

A few quick things about Victorinox, Swiss Army knives, and the Soldier pocket knife:

Every Victorinox comes with a manufacturer warranty against defects of workmanship or material for the lifetime of the pocket knife.
Ex-Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, exclusively recommends the Swiss Army pocket knife for use ...

As fond as we are of Leatherman products, here's a multitool from Victorinox that dares to raise the bar. It's the SwissTool X, and it might just cause you to rethink some things like it did for us.

At first glance, the SwissTool X seems to have many (if not all) ...

Any knife that receives the prestigious "Knife Of the Year" award from the IWA exhibition should be more than worthy of an honorable mention here at OnlyKnives. This Victorinox Rescue Tool is the 2007 award recipient, and is widely used by many safety patrol officers and firemen across the ...

If you don't mind keeping up with a little digital maintenance every now and then, you'd probably love to have the Swiss Army Expedition knife in your pocket the next time you go on a hike.

This Victorinox set comes with ten standard Swiss Army accessories, but it's the other stuff that ...

Before reading this review, you may want to check out the SwissTool Spirit. The "Plus" version has a ruler and the bit driver for adding screwdrivers, corkscrews, etc. That bit driver is an awesome feature, but it does add some bulk to your pouch and adds some cost to the tool.

The Spirit ...

Here's the Work Champ pocket sized knife from Victorinox, a secure tool that merges all the most commonly-used accessories together in one little package without making it too bulky.

The Work Champ comes with a total of 13 different accessories. Its most notable feature is a plain-edge locking blade, not ...

Much of what I know about knives is cultural. I grew up in a part of the country where weapons were normal and people were expected to have them. Knives were a big deal for us, and we expected them to be simple and dependable. None of ...

It's rare to find a Swiss Army knife with locking blades. In fact, only three of Victorinox's pocketknives feature locking mechanisms... and the Trekker is one of them.

Only two of the Trekker's twelve accessories lock into place, but they're the most important to contain this feature: a large screwdriver, and ...

The trouble with most Victorinox products is that at first glance they all look so dang similar! And we've said this before. You've got to know what you need in a pocketknife before even attempting to peruse the Swiss Army Knife listings here.

Fortunately, the Classic pocketknife pictured here takes ...

Ah, our old friend Mr. R.H. Forschner. Is there anything he can't do?

We named Forschner's 3-piece set our best budget kitchen knife set a while back. Poke around OnlyKnives a bit and you'll see we're big fans of all of their knives. It's no surprise really -- made by ...

It's all about the tools, and this one's got a bundle of 'em.

The Swiss Army Swiss Champ XLT is very similar to Victorinox's extremely popular, age-old Swiss Champ Knife. In fact, it includes all of the tools that one's got and adds in a few new ones.

You might want to check ...

This knife comes with 749 tools, weighs 112 pounds and measures 3 feet in diameter.

Okay, it's not quite that bad. But wow, does this baby pack a lot of tools in. I'd like to be able to say that it packs a lot of tools in to a very small ...

Sometimes, Victorinox's names make a lot of sense. Take this Midnite Minichamp, for example. It's a scaled-down version of the Champion knife, both in terms of number of features and in size. Hence the term "Minichamp". Why "Midnite?" Well, it's got an LED light on it, so I guess you can ...

I guess Victorinox finally took the hint from Leatherman and started making folding tools that were more accessible and modern looking. They've always made great pocket knives, so I was anxious to see how this one turned out.

The SwissTool is more compact and lightweight than the full-sized Leatherman multitools. If ...