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- [Voiceover] Some people love their machetes,
and others love portable bushcraft saws
or folding saws that you can use to process wood,
but nothing comes close
to the sheer diversity and usefulness
of a Swiss Army pocket knife.
I'd just like to show you that today.
This is the SwissChamp.
It's got to be the most useful I've ever seen
in the Swiss Army knife range.
Victorinox, so it comes, of course,
with the standard blades
that most Swiss Army knives come with,
the small and the large.
So, you've got your magnifying glass
which, of course, you could use
to, in emergency, to light a campfire.
I'm not sure how many people
have actually successfully done that in an emergency.
And the other standard tools are bottle opener,
and the Swiss Army can opener.
But, the one piece that really sold me on this
is the ballpoint pen.
To show you it actually does write,
there you go.
Maybe I should've written something intelligent then,
but I just scribbled.
So, just next to the ballpoint pen, the toothpick.
And, of course, on the back are the tweezers.
Nothing new about those little pieces,
but I just thought I'd show you.
Another innovation I've noticed here,
which I haven't seen before in Swiss Army pocket knives.
Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.
But, the cork screw is not just a cork screw anymore.
There's also this miniature flathead screwdriver
which fits inside the corkscrew.
And just in the back here.
Who would've thought you could
squeeze another piece in there.
That is actually a little pin
which I suppose you could use
for removing splinters out of your skin,
but there must be heaps of uses of a small pin.
You could go around poking people.
Don't do that.
Here we have a Phillips head screwdriver,
the larger Phillips head screwdriver of this device,
and this amazing tool.
You never would've thought possible
in such a small Swiss Army pocket knife.
And that is, this precision pair of pliers,
and they are absolutely precision too.
You could ever pluck out a hair
with the end of that needle-nose plier there.
That is a really nice pair of pliers.
Very impressed with that.
And, of course, the Swiss Army scissors, extremely useful,
and of course, can be used for clipping your fingernails.
Very useful as a traveler's tool
to have a pair of little scissors like that.
Now, here's another quite useful item
which I suppose could have many functions.
I think that that piece on the end there
is a hook disgorger.
You also have your fish scaler,
and they've even squeezed in a ruler on the back there.
Hopefully the camera picks this up,
but that's in inches.
There's actually a ruler on that side.
And then, on the opposite side,
it switches to metric, and you've got
a ruler in centimeters.
And the next piece to show
is the old Swiss Army wood saw.
Just give that a bit of a test run.
(sawing)
So, only after a few seconds,
I have actually managed to put
a fairly decent cut in that small piece of wood.
I can just chuck that on the fire.
Make it even more useful.
Now, next to the wood saw is a hacksaw.
Who would've thought that you could
have a hacksaw on a Swiss Army pocket knife.
I'm not sure if the camera is picking this up again,
but there's actually a hacksaw edge on there.
And on one side, it's a nail file for filing your nails.
Great for the ladies.
(laughs)
And then, on the other side,
I keep forgetting which side.
On the other side there's a metal file.
In fact, I think that might be the metal file.
So, in an emergency you could even use that
to sharpen a machete.
There you go, your little knife sharpens your big knife.
OK, so I think that covers everything
on the main side of the Swiss Army pocket knife.
Let's flip it over, and you've got this pulling tool.
I suppose that could be used
to pull out a fishhook.
Or, in fact, you can even use that
to help undo knots.
Now, on the back here is what I believe
they call the reamer with a sewing eye.
I think usually that's for poking holes through leather.
You can actually drill a hole
even into wood with this tool,
and that's what I've been using it for.
That's why it has that bit of white plaster on it.
I was using it at home to drill a hole
in the wall for a screw.
Now, also on the back
is another miniature flat head screwdriver,
and I think that's also meant to be another chisel.
Well, sorry, here's the main chisel here.
We just have to open the corkscrew to pull it out.
That is a miniature little chisel for chiseling wood.
So, that basically covers everything
on the back of the tool,
and I think that really covers the lot.
I always like to have a lanyard
on my Swiss Army pocket knives,
that is so it doesn't fall out of your pocket.
So, after you put it inside your pocket,
you clip that on, so if you fall over,
or whatever, you won't lose it.
I even take these swimming in the ocean,
hiking, climbing.
And the Swiss Army system
of giving you that little hook there
with the key ring, very strong key ring
actually they always come with.
There you have it, the Swiss Army SwissChamp,
and its sheer usefulness.
The store I bought this from didn't have them in red,
so I just had to buy this blue one,
but I think blue is a prettier color anyway
than the standard red.
Thanks for watching.
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