Explorer vs Farmer X Alox
2 tools, measured the same way from the same sources. 14 of 24 rows read the same on all of them; the ones that differ are what follows. A rust value is the better one in that row, grey is the worse, and a dash means we have not verified the field rather than that the tool lacks it.
Size & weight
Weight
101 g
109 g
Closed length
91 mm
93 mm
Width
26 mm
23 mm
Thickness
22 mm
17 mm
Tools & blade
Tool count
16
10
Blade steel
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Blade length
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Ownership
MSRP
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Cost per tool
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Manufacturer
Victorinox
Victorinox
Availability
In production
In production
Tools
Knife
✓
✓
Plain-edge knife
✓
✓
Screwdriver
✓
✓
Phillips screwdriver
✓
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Flathead screwdriver
✓
✓
Bottle opener
✓
✓
Can opener
✓
✓
Corkscrew
✓
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Scissors
✓
✓
Saw
—
✓
Awl
✓
✓
Tweezers
✓
—
Toothpick
✓
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Buy if it saves 8 g over the other; it carries 6 more tools than the other.
Nothing in the measured fields separates it from the other. Pick on feel, or on a tool the other has and it does not.
Verdicts are built from the measured fields only. They are conditional by design:
which tool wins depends on what you are carrying it for.