For this modification I used a 111 mm Soldier from 2014. I exchanged the original green-black scales with olive-green G10 with a Coarse Texture. The G10 used is pretty coarse and the grip is very good. It’s also a bit thicker than the nylon scales. As a result the handle is about 3.5 mm thicker than the original Soldier’s handle.
The green G10 is very close to the black G10 used for the conversion kit for the 111 mm Soldier I showed in an earlier post. On the last pictures you can see it.
In August 2013 Victorinox launched a Limited Edition called “Black Ice“. This edition consists of a Classic, a Spartan and a Trekker.
The tools of these three knives carry a black coating. The coating is not black but somewhat of a dark gray. It’s similar to the coating used on the handle of the multitool Spirit Road Tour edition and on some of Victorinox watches.
The handles from Classic and Spartan are regular cellidor scales in camo design. The Trekker carries Nylon camo scales.
Each knife has an orange lanyard attached to the ring and the Spartan and the Trekker carries a tweezers with an orange head.
It’s a quite small serie of 2’000 Classic, 1’723 Spartan and 1’000 Trekker and was sold out very fast after the launch.
This knife was originally a Soldier model 2008 from 2013 with the regular green-black dual density scales. Now it’s still a Soldier model 2008 from 2013 but with black G10 scales and with a clip.
The G10 scales are very nice and very well made. They are mounted like the original scales without glue. The clip is attached to the frontscale with two tiny torx screws. G10 is rough and gives a good grip.
I bought this conversion kit consisting of scales and clip from a knife and tools supplier.
The Käsemesser / Swiss Cheese Knife was introduced in 2010 by Switzerland Cheese Marketing AG (SCM). This model has a new tool, the Cheese Blade. SCM had an exclusivity contract with Victorinox and the exclusive right to sell this knife during three years.
The first red edition of this knife was available only at Swiss Cheese Marketing for 5 barcodes from Swiss cheese and CHF 20.
It was delivered in a nice box with an information booklet.
The only other shop, which sold the knife, was the factory shop from Victorinox in Ibach. The knife was exactly the same, but it was sold for CHF 38 in a standard silver box.
The knife has a new red nylon front scale with a big white cross instead of the Victorinox logo. The main blade is partially serrated and etched on both sides. It has a toothpick but no tweezers and the lock release button is also red instead of grey.
2012 Switzerland Cheese Marketing AG lauched a new marketing campaign.
Victorinox manufactured a Limited Edition of 1500 pieces of the Käsemesser with horn-scales with a white inlaid Swiss cross composed of Galalith. The main blade is locked by a liner-locking machanism. Each knife is numbered on the liner behind the corkscrew. It comes in a special packaging with an information booklet. Once again the knife was available only at SCM for 50 barcodes from Swiss cheese and CHF 150.
The knife was available at SCM untill end of March 2013.
Some more photos of three different Swiss Cheese Knives with horn handles, to see the different colors and shades of the natural horn.
After the marketing campaign ended at the end of 2012, many (?) knives were not sold yet. Victorinox distributed the rest to some of their main vendors in Switzerland, which sold it for about CHF 250.
Later in 2012 a new version of the Cheese knife was produced in a small quantity of 500 pieces. It has Bubinga wood scales and adds the openers layer. It was sold only at the Victorinox flag-ship store in London.
Finally, after the exclusivity contract with Switzerland Cheese Marketing AG ended end of 2012, Victorinox started 2013 with production of the cheese knife with standard red nylon scales and with tweezers and toothpick.
Some photos to compare the different editions of the Swiss Cheese Knife.
The END … of the cheese …
More info are available at SAKWiki.