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thanks for doing the leg work on whether you can make your own knife with pick and mix tools - gutted to find out you can't.
My spartan, which I bought in Los Angeles 25 years ago, was consigned to the "prohibited objects" bin in Sydney airport last month, when they wouldn't let me carry it as hand luggage. Also, SAK extorbitantly expensive in Australia, and hard to buy. In fact, knives in general seemed hard to buy, which suprised me.
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Went to investigate building my own up, but not as good as expected.
I can build my own Spartan and have name on the scales, but not pick and mix which tools get fitted :( and it was by appointment.
The internetz hinted you could make your own and change things.
Mine has a snapped small blade and crimped edge, the large blade has been reprofiled to work around another snapped tip, it also has damage to the edge, the silver cross went missing ages ago. The Awl is damaged from making holes in metal. Everything else still works, never lost the tweezers or pick and have used every function.
New one has a saw. Old one is now an expendable work bag affair.
The shop did offer to refurbish my old one for about £10 but I had to pick up in person (sure that's what they said) and not living in London wasn't worth the hassle, so bought a stack of new ones :)
Should never need to buy a penknife again.