Modify a Swiss Army Knife for Whittling: No Power Tools Edition

[@Gaohis]

Hi josh, nice video, just found your channel a few days ago really enjoying them especially the mod videos. All the best from the u.k.

[@erickim2025]

Thanks for the vid, it's a big help good to know I don't need power tools😊

[@JoshsShop]

You bet, I hope it was useful.

[@WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK]

Great instructional video. 👍 I just watched Felix Imler do this with his bench grinder and wondered what I needed to do the mod without the grinder.

[@JoshsShop]

Thanks. It is a little slower going this way, but the results are the same.

[@samuelvincent1770]

Thank you so much for the video.

[@JoshsShop]

For sure, I hope you found it helpful.

[@jamesstraub4981]

Nicely done, good stuff.

[@JoshsShop]

Thanks.

[@AlexzVaryag]

Great content. Gonna try this mod soon.

[@JoshsShop]

Thanks. I really prefer this blade shape for whittling over the original spear point. Hopefully you do as well. I hope your knife turns out great. Thanks for watching.

[@DisasterTrash]

Any reason I shouldn't do this to the long blade of my 91mm Compact? (It doesn't have a small blade.) I love this SAK. I just wish it had an awl and a saw. I figure I could slim the blade at least to make a long awl/whittling knife. Thanks for your videos!

[@JoshsShop]

You certainly could modify the large blade, and I have on a knife or two. Depending on what you are carving it will work great. The only issue is trying to carve things with a small/tight radius. The large blade is too thick/tall to get into the tighter spaces, but it will work just fine for longer flatter cuts (probably better than the small blade).

[@ringaleavo]

Good job

[@JoshsShop]

Thanks, and thanks for watching.

[@leventecsonka874]

Hi! I would have a question. 😅So I have a victorinox farmer and I would like to put a magnifying glass and the inline philips screwdriver into that from an explorer, would that be really difficult? Great video btw!

[@JoshsShop]

Thanks. That would be a pretty involved mod. You would need to disassemble the farmer and source (or make longer) pins so you can put it back together. Take apart the explorer, and another 93mm knife that you can take the back spring from to use with the mag. glass and inline Phillips because the one on the explorer will be to short. You also might have to fiddle with the mag. glass and inline Phillips a bit (or the scavenged spring) to get everything to close up right. It would be doable, but pretty involved.

[@leventecsonka874]

@@JoshsShop Thanks for the reply, I might just carry both then😆

[@theWZZA]

Nice idea. Where there is a will, there is a way. I honestly thought you would use a file to start.

[@JoshsShop]

I certainly thought about it.

[@theWZZA]

@@JoshsShop I did this mod a couple of days ago, works well. Thanks for your video!

[@susanp.collins7834]

What grit?

[@ImnotChuck.]

He used 220, but 150 would also work.

[@harrymason1053]

Stop talking! Well, explain what you need -- whatever I prefer -- but you know -- just reduce the talk by 97%.