Would the saw on the swiss army knife be too small for your needs? If so I suspect the 130mm pocketboy is your best bet if you're needing something smaller than a laplander.
I have the saw blade on my Leatherman Juice CS4, which is under the 3inch max length I can take on the Eurostar. The pocketboy 130 is very tempting as it's small enough for most of what I'm doing, I'm not really one for biiig fires.
What is the length limit applied by Eurostar? Or do you mean to buy something over there and then leave it with someone and pick it up when you visit each time? My guess is that if the security don't like the Laplander, they won't like any folding saw longer than the Swiss Army Knife. In which case, if I needed more saw, I might well look at some sort of bow saw or bucksaw with a blade that rolls into a cooking pot or similar. Much less likely to be thought of as a potential weapon and much more efficient than very small folding saws.
Eurostar length limit is 75mm, non locking. It's the non locking bit that precludes pretty much every saw on the market. Thus my thinking was to get something and leave it at my Dutch place and leave my laplander in the UK for when I'm there.
I did consider the Bob Destrude folding buck saw, but it's quite a bit more saw than I need for some trips, tho I can see it as being ideal for other trips.
I have a silky pocket boy 170 on the way, already have a gomboy 270 and katanaboy (definitely not a pocket saw!)
Love them, used my laplander on Saturday and wasn't impressed .
A friend of mine has the Katanaboy 650, it's an intimidating piece of kit.
With the gomboy 270 which blade did you get large or medium teeth? What's the max size log you feel that blade would cut through?
Bought a Silky F180 about six years back along with a spare blade. I've used it in Canada, Finland and Norway, often to cut frozen wood. Still works like a charm and I'm still using the original blade. £20 well spent.
http://www.northernarbsupplies.co.u...80-8-new-saw.html?search_query=F180&results=6
Did you go for the fine or medium teeth version? What would you say is it's max capacity in terms of log diameter?
I think I can see a silky saw in my future...
J
