Leatherman Roll Call

[Sdiver]

Rest In Piece(s) to a trusted and well used friend.

Friends,

It is with a heavy and very sad heart that I announce the passing of a trusted and well used friend.

I've had this Leatherman Supertool for the past 20 plus years. It has served me faithfully and truly. Only wanting a little drop of oil and a nice sharping every so often.

My heart is heavy.



But I'll feel better after I get a new one.

[Bill Harsey]

Anybody else break a jaw on their Leatherman?

[mcarey]

I broke my super with crimper slot by being a poor user, and abuser!

[TOMAHAWK9521]

I one of those Mini-Leatherman back in the 80's. It had the double fold-out handles and obviously, half the tools as the original. That sucker snapped off at the hinge while doing some weapons maint. Also, a few years back, a friend broke off the top of my standard Leatherman but generously replaced it with the Surge.

[hoepoe]

Mr. Harsey, Sir

I have owned two Leatherman tools:

1) Supertool
Didn;t really like it much, it was uncomfortable to use. Sadly it is now somewhere on a mountain (hill) in the Judean Desert.

2) Skeletool
A gift from a dear friend and colleague. It is small, and only what i needed, nothing less, nothing more. I loved that Skeletool.

Currently, i use a Victorinox Swisstool that is OK. Broke the tip off awhile back and it (the tool) was replaced with no fuss at all.

My choice, the Skeletool.

H

[booker]

Originally Posted by Bill Harsey

Anybody else break a jaw on their Leatherman?

Broke the jaw on mine in A-stan 2002, never got another one (still kinda PO'd about it actually)

[D9 (RIP)]

I've still got the Charge XTi I bought from this website about 4 years ago. It's been through the course and a deployment, and is still going strong.

Best multi-tool I've ever owned.

[The Reaper]

I have never broken one while using it for its intended purpose, but I have bent a few of the tools.

TR

[allester666]

I have a Wave that served me well through most of the Q, and My newest toy is the Skeletool. The Wave is much older but has a great assortment of tools, and the steel is much stronger and holds an edge better than any gerber tool I have had. Its also very stiff even after alot of use, which is mainly a pro indicating god quality. Its only a pain when your tired and your hands are covered in field sores from Pineland brush. Great tool, still have it and use it mainly in my weapons kit.

The new Skeletool comes with an amazing 154cm knife that will cut through anything. As usual there is no play in the pliers like there is with Gerbers. Not many thrills and frills, just pliers, knife and screwdriver (philips and flat-head). O yea and a bottle opener. I used it in Sage and made many antenna's, it has held up really well but it did show a little rust on the pliers that wiped of with some gun oil.

Gerbers are great to have when you need to do something like pull concertina wire out of your Stryker's wheel hub's or tighten/loosen a stuck screw that tears up your tool quickly. I went through a couple of them in Iraq, thank god for unit supply!! The metal bends and breaks quickly, and the pliers seem to get twisted out of spec a bit easier than leatherman's.

Has Sog disappeared off the market? I haven't seen any lately. Everyone I know that had one liked them, and they will cut through a penny and not lose an edge (PX demo, I don't encourage defacing money).

[pyreaux]

SOG is still out there, I saw a few while walking through one of the local gun stores in Baton Rouge, la. I've still got a set of PowerPliers that have made it through chainlink, sheetrock screws, and miscellaneous other items that needed to be shorter or just cut.

Also, briefly owned a charge TTi until a neighbor borrowed it and made it dissappear.

[x SF med]

I just bought some Carhart's a a couple of weeks ago - and they came with a multi-tool - I haven't used it much, doesn't fit the hand really well, but it does come with a few standard nut drivers as well as the 'regular' inventory of tools. My old black anodized supertool 200 gets used most of the time - I just fixed the lights on my brother in law's trailer with it yesterday; oh and it's been used enough that if I hold one handle I can ' throw' it open to use it...

[ZooKeeper]

I don't know how I missed this thread.

I currently have a Victorinox SwissTool. Surprised it hasn't received more use here.

It spends most of it's time in the truck & goes in my pack whenever I'm outdoors.

No good stories.

The Swiss have taken multi-use tools to the next level! After my third leatherman finally wore out, I changed to the Swiss, (now 10 years old). Never a bad day with it. Tools are available from the outside, reducing the need to open to the pliar mode before other tools are exposed. The Swiss designed, reverse engineered a much superior product.

If the pliar mode is required, then the tools are secured, leaving the hands in a better position and much more comfortable.

I believe the steel in superior, better edge, stronger. Plan on spending a bit more, but worth it.

[perdurabo]

Live and swear by the Leatherman Wave. Order the $5 pocket clip for it off the Leatherman site and you don't have the belt wart to catch on things. I carry my Wave everywhere I go, even to the gym and jogging. Gotten pretty good at thumbing the blade out quickly.

[Boomer-61]

I was in Las Penitias Costat Rica three weeks ago on a medical mission. We had a Dental student with us about 2 months from graduation. The village people there had pretty poor dention. This student used a Leatherman for a tooth extraction. After local anesthetic was administered, she sterilized the flat blade screw driver and used it as an elevator to work the tooth loose, then snatched it out with the pliers. I tried to capture a picture from one of those picture share sites (snapfish) but could not get it to copy here. If I can get it I will post it. That was the most unique utilization of the Leatherman I have seen.