Swiss Tech Tragen Gift Pack (Should This Make It Under Your Tree This Year?)

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[@h4rry4x44]

I still can't find this at any of my local Walmarts. I would like to see you use the bit driver on one of your knives. To me, I think it being so small and round, that it won't be able to get a T6 or T8 screw out of a knife.

[@gideonsstuff]

Sure thing! I'll make a short using the driver 👍

[@jamesruth100]

This feels like a rare flop from Swiss Tech; their products are usually really good, but this pack is just underwhelming. The titanium key ring and the bit driver seem useful enough, although I think it's a little silly to count a key ring as one of the 4 "EDC essential" products, even _if_ it's titanium; I honestly would've preferred to see a carabiner, as I feel that's closer to _actually_ being an EDC essential, but it is what it is. My main issue is with the knife and the sharpener. Like, in my eyes, the only pull through sharpener that I'd even theoretically consider (and only as a last-ditch emergency sharpening option) is the work sharp pivot plus (it has a decent diamond rod, the carbide section is intended to convex your edge with two pre-set angle options, and the ceramic is to apply a micro-bevel onto that convex), and even that is _only_ as a theoretical; I'd never _actually_ use it when other, much better, pocket sharpeners exist (heck, I'd probably even just try my luck with rocks before a pull through). If I wouldn't use what I consider to be the "best" of the worst, then why would I use the wahren? And then the winzig itself seems like a strange choice for the kit. Like, putting aside the knife's quality for a second, why would you bundle a non-serrated knife with a sharpener that has a diamond rod specifically _for_ serrations? It's a feature the kit doesn't make use of, showing a lack of synergy. Not that you'd want the winzig to have serrations, anyway; it already lacks blade length, and a combo edge would just make it worse at both roles by constraining it even more. Overall, it's a knife that's _begging_ to have at least 1 more inch of length; that alone probably would've been enough to save it and the kit.

[@gideonsstuff]

Absolutely agree with everything you said. Swiss Tech has been on a roll lately, but this could have been so much better.

[@OldTantoGuy]

IMHO - meh...

[@gideonsstuff]

I concur 😂