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I have bought one of the silverline crunch copies so will report back when it arrives. So that is a leather wave, wingman, squirt, gerber suspension, 2 types of larger swiss army knifes and two small keyring ones and now this knock off. The thing is I use them all and the more I use them the more I feel I need.
One for the shed, house, upstairs, downstairs, in the BBQ kit, in the van, on the motorbike etc etc.
One for the shed, house, upstairs, downstairs, in the BBQ kit, in the van, on the motorbike etc etc.
After having several multi-tools over the last 10+ years, I've come to the realisation that they don't actually solve the problems I want a knife to solve. I mainly use mine for DIY which involves abusing the blade by regularly cutting against concrete or plaster. I've got bored of having to resharpen the blade every couple of days. Carrying a full size Stanley knife alongside a multi-tool is overkill and too heavy in a pocket.
I've just received my Gerber EAB Lite. Cost £12 delivered and I recently bought 100 heavy duty blades from a trade carpet shop for 2p each. No more blade sharpening
If anyone from Leatherman or Gerber is reading this, make a tool which takes a utility knife blade like one of these below and I'll buy it immediately:
I've just received my Gerber EAB Lite. Cost £12 delivered and I recently bought 100 heavy duty blades from a trade carpet shop for 2p each. No more blade sharpening
If anyone from Leatherman or Gerber is reading this, make a tool which takes a utility knife blade like one of these below and I'll buy it immediately:
TheJimi said:
I think you are missing the point of multi tools. If you need a specific tool, such as a Stanley knife in your case, they are not meant to replace that.
Where multitools excel is when they are to hand when the nothing else is.
I think having a multi-tool that can fit a Stanley knife blade, scalpel blade or craft knife blade in would be rather good.Where multitools excel is when they are to hand when the nothing else is.
Edited by TheJimi on Monday 30th March 13:47
TheJimi said:
I think you are missing the point of multi tools. If you need a specific tool, such as a Stanley knife in your case, they are not meant to replace that.
Where multitools excel is when they are to hand when the nothing else is.
You mean they're a jack of all trades, master of none.Where multitools excel is when they are to hand when the nothing else is.
I disagree. My Gerber suspension pliers are better than any other pliers I own. My other pliers are now in a box in the garage and never get used. The bottle opener does everything I expect a bottle opener to do and hence I never use another one. The blade on a Leatherman Wave does everything I want a blade to do while gardening. I don't own or need a better gardening knife.
Decorating and general DIY is where I imagine many of these tools get used and I think they are lacking in that area. Leatherman now does replaceable saw blades which is a great idea, I'm just waiting for replaceable knife blades. The other massive benefit this has in the UK is you could just remove it and make the tool 100% legal to carry.
Regarding the bottle opener, I don't know anyone who uses the fold out bottle opener blade. It is literally the work of a moment to pop the cap using the pliers nose across your knuckle. Literally everybody does this so it makes me a bit annoyed that they wasted a blade on an irrelevant opener.
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