Victorinox Swiss Army

Victorinox SwissArmy Swisscard Lite Ruby Multi-tool (CD)Letter opener (blade); Scissors; Straight pin; Pressurized ball point pen;Tweezers; Magnifying glass; Screwdriver 3mm; Screwdriver 5mm;Phillips screwdriver #00-0; Phillips screwdriver #1-2; LED mini light;Ruler (in); Ruler (cm); Lifetime Limited Warranty.

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 bring your box knife, scissors, tweezers, pen, or ruler. It's not really meant to compete with your Leatherman or other heavy-duty all-purpose kit. I am now on my fourth Swisscard having previously owned one Lite and two Classics. I destroyed the Lite and simply used the Classics so much that the scissor swing door wouldn't stay on and the knife wouldn't stay in its slot. My current Swisscard is the Lite with the red, transparent plastic. The tools are sturdy and easily 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 simply a metal tube with plenty 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 small slotted screws or bolts although 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 great 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 original opaque plastic bodies. The Swisscard I destroyed was made of the transparent plastic and it cracked every time I dropped the kit. The opaque plastic kits wore out but never cracked. The LED flashlight is very small and not very powerful. It might help you find the keyhole two inches away, but that's all it'll help you find. Not that you could really get a powerful flashlight in a card of this size. I just don't think Victorinox should have tried. Better to have put a more useful tool in that location or simply 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 exactly what they produced. The ridge that would give the bit purchase in a Phillips headed screw is only 0.5mm in height. So the Phillips bit would be about as effective as the slotted bit except the Phillips bit is pointed, making it nearly worthless 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 remember 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 some of the more vigilant government buildings. This model has some design flaws (hence the four starts), but it's a neat little toolkit that's guaranteed to get you curious looks.