SOG Specialty Knives and Tools Donates $4,000 in Product to Nonprofit

Knives, multi-tools will be used on Big City Mountaineers wilderness outings

02.08.2010 – Denver, Colo. – SOG Specialty Knives and Tools, LLC, a leading manufacturer and marketer of specialty knives and tools, has donated $4,000 worth of knives and multitools to Big City Mountaineers, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the lives of under-resourced urban teens through transformative outdoor experiences.

BCM will use the multitools and knives in its summer wilderness programs, which match five at-risk teens with five adult mentors for a week of backpacking or backcountry canoeing.

“On our more than 50 weeklong wilderness trips in 2010, it’s important that we have reliable equipment,” said BCM executive director Syd Jones. “The high quality of SOG knives will help us maintain the safety of our teams in the field. We have been looking for a river knife for our Boundary Waters canoe trips, and the SOG Pentagon perfectly fits our needs.”

Through all BCM’s programs, teens and mentors will spend more than 4,000 days in the backcountry in 2010. SOG’s knives and multitools will be utilized in many wilderness tasks, from camp kitchen use to fixing broken equipment.

“In addition to the truly transformative beauty of the outdoors, we believe the ability to experience the self-reliance and self-discovery that comes with outdoor adventures is a critically important component to the development of youth,” says Spencer Frazer, Founder and CEO of SOG Specialty Knives and Tools. “We are delighted to be able to play a part in helping Big City Mountaineers advance their mission of enhancing the lives of urban teens and look forward to a long and meaningful engagement with this innovative program.”

About SOG
SOG was founded in 1986 by Spencer Frazer, a former R&D tool and die maker for the Top Secret Black Projects Division of the aerospace defense industry. SOG’s name was inspired by an elite joint services military unit – the Studies and Observation Group – formed in advance of the Vietnam War to conduct covert operations and sanctioned to develop and purchase their own weapons. Since the introduction of its first products, SOG has become the favored brand for specialty knives and tools by the military, law enforcement personnel, industrial tradesmen and outdoorsmen worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.sogknives.com.

About Big City Mountaineers
BCM is one of the largest non-profits in the country devoted to working exclusively with under-resourced teens by using the outdoors as a transformational element in their lives. BCM runs its recreational mentoring program in selected major urban centers throughout the country, with its largest program areas in Denver and San Francisco. Learn more at http://www.bigcitymountaineers.org.

Here is a great how-to article written by Brian Griffin about making some improvised canteens and such using the Team Leader and some bamboo.

Improvised In the Field Water Purification and Storage

Text and Photos by Brian Griffin

To me the SOG Team Leader Survivor is one of the best knives to come along in a very long time. It combines a great blade shape, wonderful edge geometry, and a fantastic fully functional saw all in one light-weight but stout little package. Recently I have been doing a lot of work with this knife using bamboo. This is a material for which the Team Leader Survivor is a natural choice. Using this one knife I was able to make an improvised canteen as well as a pot and hanger system for boiling liquids all from bamboo with a minimum of exertion and energy expense.

The canteen

In order to make a quick, improvised canteen or canister I just picked a large stalk of bamboo and using the saw spine cut off a complete cell that closed at both ends from the larger end of the stalk.

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The SEAL Pup Elite was just named the 2010 Outdoor Life Editor’s Choice award for survival knives. We are obviously very happy about this.  If you get a chance go buy the February 2010 issue of Outdoor Life or visit their website at and read a short review of the SEAL Pup Elite.

Image by Outdoor Life

Gunny is everywhere lately. We just received our copies of the April 2010 issue of Blade Magazine. We were quite please to see that the Creed was featured on the cover and there is an interview with the Gunny. If you want to read the article I suggest you go out and buy a copy of the magazine. If you don’t want to do that we were fortunate enough to get a copy of the article from Blade that we can post on here. Read the Blade Magazine interview with R. Lee Ermey aka The Gunny.

Article Courtesy of Blade Magazine / blademag.com

SOG Specialty Knives & Tools , LLC is very happy to add to a growing list of exceptional outdoor brands lending their support to the 2010 Checkpoint Tracker adventure racing season. SOG Specialty Knives & Tools has also been named the Official Knives & Tools of Checkpoint Tracker.

SOG will be providing support in a variety of ways, most notably by awarding Checkpoint Tracker branded SOG knives to the winning team in each division at the 2010 Checkpoint Tracker National Championship, which is set for October 29th in the Rocky Mountain Region. These limited edition SOG knives will feature the Checkpoint Tracker logo engraved on the blade. The only way to get your hands on one will be beat all challengers in head to head competition.

SOG recently formed TeamSOG, a group of accomplished edurance athletes competing in a variety of endurance sports, including adventure racing, across the US and around the world. It’s sponsorship of Checkpoint Tracker further increases it’s commitment to supporting the growth and promotion of the sport of adventure racing.

In case you have not heard SOG has partnered with R. Lee Ermey aka The Gunny as our national spokesperson.  Check out the Gunny page on the SOG website for more information.

He has also started writing a column for Tactical Knives in each issue.  The first of his columns has been posted on the tactical-life.com website.  If you want to read what Gunny has to say about knives it is a good read, check it out at http://www.tactical-life.com/online/tactical-knives/gunny-on-the-edge/

In the airport heading to Vegas for SHOT show, check out the new 2010 items on the SOG site – http://sogknives.com/store/new.html

Heading off to SHOT show. 2010 New products should be on the site shortly.

We are feverishly working on prepping the new products for 2010.  We hope to have them up in next couple weeks.  In the meantime here are a couple teasers to whet you appetite.  Any one care to take a guess?

We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.