Multitool recommendations?

[mroper]

Gerber has some top notch customer service. I had one where the pliers we not opening I called them up. They said send it in. They sent me a brand new one plus the old one back with and X scratched in the frame. well I tinkered with the old one and got it to work well enough I can still use it.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

I wound up just swapping mine at Wal-Mart....4 years later. Hey - lifetime warranty is a lifetime warranty.

 

[Savage20]

I've got some Gerber knives and multitool that I received as a gift. Definitely not convincing me to switch brands. Unless maybe it was a Bear Grylls edition.

 

[ROGER4314]

Having toured the Leatherman factory, I can say for sure that they make the products here. The main plant is in Portland but many of the tools are made in other facilities.

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[texasnurse]

Gonna get the wife a Juice XE6


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[Nate C]

http://www.stanleytools.com/products/hand-tools/knives-blades/multi-tool/12-in-1-multitool/84-519

 

[Kar98]

http://www.stanleytools.com/products/hand-tools/knives-blades/multi-tool/12-in-1-multitool/84-519

Comes highly recommended with a single star out of five review right there at the manufacturer's website.

 

[Darkpriest667]

After all of the suggestions here (and thanks for that) I am looking at several models of leatherman. Wave and OHT seem to be the two I keep going back to. The OHT doesn't have needlenose or a punch like pin and that really detracts from the allure of it. The Wave has a phillips head that is too short for my liking.

 

[coachrick]

The best multi-tool is the one you have with you...not the one you left in the drawer at home.

 

[texasnurse]

After all of the suggestions here (and thanks for that) I am looking at several models of leatherman. Wave and OHT seem to be the two I keep going back to. The OHT doesn't have needlenose or a punch like pin and that really detracts from the allure of it. The Wave has a phillips head that is too short for my liking.

There is of course an extended bit driver you can get, which can also utilize standard bits. Look into the charge AL exactly like the wave but with 154cm blade and aluminum scales that make usage of the MT more comfortable


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[Jack Ryan]

I have an old crappy multitool and I am thinking about picking up something else. I usually carry it in my fanny pack any suggestions? I was leaning towards the gerber diesel or MP600 is there any reason I should stay away from those?

Leatherman Wave or a Leatherman Super Tool, UNLESS you have specific needs you are aware of right now and trying to fill them.

IMHO, any multitool has GOT to have a wood saw and a file along with the usual. One place Leatherman is falling down on the job is the file should have a hook sharpener but with just a little skill you can still sharpen hooks with the fine side of the file.

 

[Jack Ryan]

They're still made in the US, they're just not stamping it on the things anymore because California requires that for this stamp, every single material and production step has to be made in the US.

For instance, Leatherman buys European-made files, corkscrews and other components.

The jaws for its pliers come from a U.S. company that moved manufacturing to Mexico.

The plier jaws, and some other imported products, arrive at Leatherman's 120,000-square-foot manufacturing facility to be finished –– ground, hardened and polished –– by its manufacturing work force of more than 300.

"Anybody who came into our factory and saw all the parts and work that goes into the tools would conclude that we actually do produce it here," said Roger Bjorklund, Leatherman vice president of marketing.

Other portions of the tools are fabricated on-site before all the pieces are fashioned into finished devices.

Federal courts have determined that the tools qualify as "Made in U.S.A.," Bjorklund said.

To appease critics, though, the company stopped imprinting its tools with "Made in U.S.A."

There are some early PST's that were made in Japan when the little 11 employees workshop couldn't keep up with the demand.

Well it sounds to me a lot like the reason it's not stamped "Made in the USA" is because it's NOT made in the USA.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

The Wave is a solid piece. If the phillips is all that's holding you back, you can remedy that with a bit driver or an extended bit. I happen to have both. The extended bit fits in my Leatherman, and the driver fits in the pouch.

 

[Kar98]

Well it sounds to me a lot like the reason it's not stamped "Made in the USA" is because it's NOT made in the USA.

By your standards, nothing is made in the US then, if not every single part and step of the process is sourced and done in the US.

 

[Younggun]

By your standards, nothing is made in the US then, if not every single part and step of the process is sourced and done in the US.

I believe it's more about the majority of parts being made in the US. Otherwise "assembled in the USA" applies.

Reading the posts in this thread, it sounds like the majority of the parts used to make a leatherman do not come from the US, they just get assembled here.


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[Kar98]

I believe it's more about the majority of parts being made in the US. Otherwise "assembled in the USA" applies.

Reading the posts in this thread, it sounds like the majority of the parts used to make a leatherman do not come from the US, they just get assembled here.


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There's not a single post in this thread that makes it "sound" like that other than in your head.

 

[Davetex]

I just carry this everywhere I go. I'm covered.

 

[Younggun]

There's not a single post in this thread that makes it "sound" like that other than in your head.

Post 19.


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[Moonpie]

I have a couple of the Wave Leathermans with the bit sets. Great tool but kinda bulky and heavy for pocket carry.

 

[coachrick]

I just carry this everywhere I go. I'm covered.

That thing got a HEMI???