Victorinox Swisscard Lite Ruby Red
Victorinox is introducing a light to it's ordinary Swiss card . This versatile multi-tool is the size of a credit card with features that would put a gold card to shame.
From the widely known and esteemed company that devised the Swiss Army Knife a century ago comes the SwissCard Lite, an ultra-thin multi-tool that's an idealisti tag-along accessory for users everywhere. The SwissCard Lite is roughly the size of a credit card, so you may without apparent effort fit it in your wallet or pocket. However, the SwissCard Lite performs a ton of tasks that your AmEx card can't, with such tools as a letter opener, a little set of scissors, a pair of tweezers, a straight pin, a pressurized ballpoint pen, and a magnifying glass. And that's just the beginning, as the device likewise includes such fix-it tools as 3mm and 5mm flat-head screwdrivers, two Phillips screwdrivers, an LED mini light, and a ruler that measures items in both inches and centimeters. In short, there's no better multi-tool for humans who find established Swiss Army Knives a little bulky. The SwissCard Lite, which measures 3.25 inches long, carries the Victorinox lifetime warranty. About Victorinox
In 1884, Swiss cutler Karl Elsener set up shop in Ibach-Schwyz, installing a waterwheel in Tobelbach Brook to run his grinding and polishing machines. Thus started out what would become the global brand name Victorinox, a combining of Victoria, for Elsener's mother, and "inox," or stainless steel. Today, Victorinox develops watches, luggage, clothing, and, famously, Swiss Army Knives. The introductory product dates to 1897, when Elsener patented the Swiss Officer's and Sports Knife he supplied to the Swiss Army. Following World War II, American servicemen and women buying goods in PX stores shortened the name to Swiss Army Knife, which lives on in English-speaking countries around the world and has become a metaphor for versatility. |
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24 of 25 persons found the following review helpful.
 Not for survivalists
By Patrick E. Donnelly
This is not an item for knife afficionados or survivalists. You could not skin a rabbit or severely threaten any individual with the comparatively laughable knife on this thing--the packaging itself refers to it as a 'letter opener'.
No, this is not a knife you take into the woods. But let's face it: unless you have security issues, you're not carrying around a multitool in your front pocket when you drive to your cushy white collar occupation in the morning; the odds of you requiring a pair of pliers are close to zero. You'll be glad you have one in your wallet the next time you need to: open some out of the question plastic product packaging, find something beneath a car seat at night, ask an individual for a screwdriver, fill out a form, etc.
This card is very low profile and extra light duty, and it is for all those times in life when your fingernails/dimes/ballpoints just aren't rather enough. Next to your Visa, the card you shouldn't leave home without.
One star off because the tang of the knife ends only a third of the way through the tiny plastic holder--seems very fragile. 17 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
Great toolkit
By Woodworking Widow
The Victorinox Swisscard is a great toolkit for your wallet. It is a compact, bundle of tools for those times when you didn't think to fetch your box knife, scissors, tweezers, pen, or ruler. It's not in truth meant to compete with your Leatherman or other heavy-duty all-purpose kit.
I am now on my fourth Swisscard having antecedently owned one Lite and two Classics. I destroyed the Lite and plainly employed the Classics so much that the scissor swing door wouldn't stay on and the knife wouldn't stay in it is slot. My current Swisscard is the Lite with the red, transparent plastic.
The tools are sturdy and without apparent effort manipulated by normal sized hands.
The knife, while it does have a short tang, is strong and sufficient for cutting boxes, paper, fabric, or the impenetrable, plastic packaging most everything comes in.
The scissors are sharp and the spring reliably re-opens the scissors for smooth cutting.
The pen is merely a metal tube with a great deal of ink in it--I never used all the ink in any of my pens. It's not comfortable but you'll have a pen when you need it.
The slotted screwdriver bits work just fine on little slotted screws or bolts altho they don't have much depth. More on the Phillips bits later.
The tweezers tweeze and the stick pin sticks. I did replace the stick pin with a sharper pin from a sewing kit though.
So it is a outstanding toolkit with which to scribble a phone number, cut open an envelope, tighten your eyeglasses, or get the splinter of wood out of your finger. There are some minuses though.
The transparent plastic body isn't as strong as the firstborn opaque plastic bodies. The Swisscard I destroyed was made of the transparent plastic and it cracked each time I dropped the kit. The opaque plastic kits wore out but never cracked.
The LED flashlight is very little and not very powerful. It might support you find the keyhole two inches away, but that's all it'll support you find. Not that you could genuinely get a powerful flashlight in a card of this size. I just don't think Victorinox must have tried. Better to have put a more utile tool in that emplacement or plainly reinforced the plastic body.
The Phillips screwdriver bits are laughable. I think the designers were given a two-dimensional representation of a Phillips bit because that is precisely what they produced. The ridge that would give the bit buy in a Phillips headed screw is only 0.5mm in height. So the Phillips bit would be regarding as effective as the slotted bit except the Phillips bit is pointed, making it closely unworthy for any application. Again, far better to have a smaller, superior tool, than to overreach and have a larger, valueless tool.
You will have to do not forget to put your Swisscard in your check-in luggage as it won't make it past airport security. I had to have my kit mailed back to me by family seeing me off at the airport. It also won't pass through security in a great deal of of the more vigilant government buildings.
This model has a lot of design flaws (hence the four starts), but it's a neat little toolkit that's guaranteed to get you curious looks. 15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
 Victorinox Swisscard Lite, Ruby
By A
It's very hard to give you an exact description on anything. I may give you the dimensions, weight and comparison to an object but it still won't give you a good visualization until you in truth hold it. I will undertake to do my best to have you visualize the Swiss Card. Go into your wallet, really, go get 3 credit cards and place them on top of each other. The 3 credit cards has the same dimension and thickness of the Swiss Card. It is little and useful.
The Card it is Self - It is 4 x 3 and as thick as 3 credit cards. It's very lite and thin. It has 13 tools (Amazon's description) with 6 actual tools. Knife, scissors, tweezers, screw driver, pin and pen. The other; ruler, light, magnifying glass. The other 4 are the dissimilar sizes of screw driver bit (13 tools). It's translucent which looks very cool kept up to a light and is very useful.
The Knife - The knife is the same knife that comes with the fold-in Multi-tool. Same length and thickness but the handle is different. It is a little flimsy. The knife is good to cut open envelopes, cut strings, open plastic bags and whatsoever you need to open that doesn't require sawing or a heap of muscle to open. The handle will break.
The Scissors - The scissors are the same ones in the Multi-Tool. These are a little bit more sturdy than the knife. It's totally metal with an "O" handle. The main scissor blade is fixed into the the handle and the second blade is attached like the one in the Multi-Tool. It is a little hard to hold. What I do is insert my pinkie finger into the ring and let the scissors rest on my fingers and then use my thumb to operate the cutting action. They are utile but not too often.
The Screw Driver - A lot of persons are saying the screw driver is useless. I don't find this at all. When I firstborn looked at it I though "Well, this will do nothing". When I tried it out, it worked great for me. I put together a stand up fan with out getting frustrated of having it slip or dropping out of my hand. The screw driver is the size of a quarter with the bits cut out. It in truth has a lot of torque.
The Pen - Now this it useless. First off it has Blue ink. For a heap of reason, I hate Blue ink. It's very hard to hold and the ink dries out very speedily in the tip. You have to rub the tip for in a literal sense a minute on a piece of paper to wet the ink. If you in truth need to find a pen, it's there but don't suppose it as a good backup.
The Tweezers - They're OK. It's hard to genuinely get a splinter out with these but it may be done if the splinter in very superficial. There actually is no use other than that.
The Pin - It's actually just a pin. I guess if you need a pin, it's there. It's not a bad pin but I never genuinely use it.
The Magnifying Glass - I have always found that the Swiss Army Knife Magnifying Glass was great. It's the same one in the Multi-Tool but fixed into the card it is self. It doesn't make what you are magnifying bubbly or warped. It works very well.
The Red Light - When I basi turned it on, it didn't give off much light and it's hard to see things in the dark with a dim red light. But I have applied it may times. I've used it to find things beneath car seats, to see what the temperature was on the thermostat and little things that need a little light so you may see it. It's more utile than you would think. You may alter the battery very easily. You just lift the tab up and place a new one it. It takes a CR 1025 Lithium Coin Cell battery. It might be hard to find a substitute battery though.
The Ruler - It's totally unlikely to read and is only 3 inches. Not much use here. It does have a straight edge to scrape up things. Salt, sugar, etc.
After writing this review I realized there are a lot of useless things on the Swisscard but I use it all the time. If you buy it, you will use it. Sadly, Swiss Army Knives are totally unlikely to find in-stores now. I live in Chicago and can't find numerous knives. So I hope this review helps with on-line buying. It's worth $20. See all 32 client reviews... |
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