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.
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?
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.
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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There's not a single post in this thread that makes it "sound" like that other than in your head.
I just carry this everywhere I go. I'm covered.