This nice olive-green Farmer is a special run of 50 pieces made by Victorinox in February 2013. It’s numbered on the main blade.
The color is a bit brighter than the olive-green from the earlier made olive Pioneer and First Mate with black tools.
Untill about 1999 Victorinox used a plain silver cross as logo on their Alox knives. In 2000 Victorinox changed to a new logo. It’s a curved wappen shield with silver contour with a silver cross in a red area.
Since then Victorinox produces their standard Alox model palette with silver Alox scales with the silver/red shield logo shown in the picture above. A few years ago Victorinox started producing Alox knives in many different colors. Most of these knives are special runs produced in a small quantity. Usually 50 – 100 pieces per run. They are produced mainly for collectors and knife enthusiasts.
The form of the Victorinox logo remains the same, but there are a few color variantions. Most of these special runs have the logo with silver contours and silver cross but the shield inside has the same color as the scales.
A US dealer (*) ordered some limited runs with a logo in the same color as the scales.
In January 2012 Victorinox produced the first time an Alox special run with black scales with the silver logo with red shield. Since then a few other colored Alox knives were produced with the silver logo with red area.
Another variation is a silver knive with a silver logo with grey contours.
In January 2013 Victorinox produced a few Alox models for a US dealer with copper color scales. These knives have a new logo color variation. The shield’s contour and cross have the same copper color as the scales and the shield inside is red.
I’m curious if there will be another shield color variation in the future.
Edited 30.12.2013: Some more Alox shield color variations…
(*) He doesn’t want his name published on my website.
The Alox Pruner model is a one layer knife. It carries a mainblade and a pruning blade. This knife with the light green scales is part of a special run of only 50 pieces made by Victorinox in November 2012.
This is the 5th and probably last knife of the “green pruning blade” serie.
Each knife is numbered on the pruning blade.
The Alox model called Midshipman is basically a Farmer with a marlinspike. My modification was to exchange the wood saw with a scissors. The idea and the material was contributed by Marco. Thanks Marco!
The back spring for the scissors is a back spring from a Solo. This gives a nice and smooth backside as it is usual on all Alox knives.
One of my favorite Alox models is the Rancher. I like the pruning blade, but I miss the scissors. But hey, no problem let’s add one. And because you can never have to many Alox knives, I’ve made a few. The first one in the pictures is my current EDC.
My first mods have the original scissors backspring from a 91mm knife. It works perfectly, but looks a bit odd because of the gap.
After a few tries I figured out how to improve it. A Solo’s backspring fits perfectly and looks nicer. Now my Alox with scissors have also a beautiful back.
