leatherman wave

>>1085309
>name a better multitool.

The best pile of shit is still just a small pile of feces laying on the floor.

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Uh, wat. Leatherman Charge TTI is the same thing except made with titanium handles and an S30V blade. You could have said that and lend some credence to your post.

Multitools are for casuals.

The do a lot of things, but they don't do any of those things well.

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>>1085334
> smartphones are for casuals. They do a lot of things, but they don't do any well.

>>1085309
>Implying I don't carry a set o screwdrivers, full size pliers, fixed knife and an hammer every day
Git gud, faggit.

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>>1085309

>>1085309
To the dudes bitching about how "multitools are shit"

You can't carry a whole toolset on your back when you work. I work on the water, or on my own boat (going fishing/fish hunting/crab spider & scallop picking quite often) or as a sailing coatch, i need a knife, and some tools. I can fix minor problems on the boats (rudder being a bitch, problems on the shroud) or even my own motor with it. I have a Leatherman Wave, and as a sailer a knife AND a rope cutter are useful, and the saw can help too.

The concept itself of the weatherman is being compact and polyvalent. I read somewhere that the inventor was some dude hitting the road in an old Ford ho wanted to be able to fix minor issues on his car without having to carry a toolset. If you're in your shed, your multitool is useless. Outside, at work (if your work isn't basically being in your she or somewhere where you have access to tools) or even on an /out/door situation, a multitool is almost a must have.

>>1085365
principle does not equal utility, you dolt.

>>1085325
this

>>1085495
>Outside, at work (if your work isn't basically being in your she or somewhere where you have access to tools) or even on an /out/door situation, a multitool is almost a must have.

lel

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>>1085495
>You can't carry a whole toolset on your back when you work

>>1085309
Leatherman rebar. Replaceable cutters for dat long lived usefulness.

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>>1085309
But I can, OP. Any of the single hand opening Gerbers is far superior.

>>1085583
I have a 25 year old one of these
Its not even that nice.

>>1085309
Leatherman wingman reporting in. Best tool if you want a pocket clip. For those of us who dont cover our belts in pouches

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>>1085309
Tell me how you gonna cut a CYKY 16 mm^2 cable in half with that awesome tool you show us here?
It's not a multitool, it's stupidity.
Best multitool is angle grinder.
Try to correct me on this.

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>>1085596
Forgot my pic of my wingman

>>1085598
Wingman is flimsy garbage
Its their budget model, and you can tell

>>1085597
You can't use an angle grinder as a pair of pliers

>>1085602
I disagree, for light use typical of a multitool its fantastic. I have had mine for years. If they had a high end pocket model id own it.

Leatherman OHT - one hand tool. Nothing sucks being on a ladder holding something and having to open a tool or quick change.

>>1085334
How autistic are you people?

No one is comparing a Leatherman to your Strap-on cab filled with $100k worth of tools.

Multitools are good to have and fun to play with and that's all that really matters.
That said my pick for best multitool is the Victorinox Swisschamp.

Your hands

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>>1085583
its folded design has the fucking pliers sticking out. in a tool that's designed to be in your pants pockets.
IS GERBER FUCKED IN THE HEAD?

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>>1085309
Skeletool
Because your never gonna use the fucking fish scaler...


Seriously this is hands down the best thing leatherman ever shat out.

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Surge if you have larger hands. It's a larger version of wave with some additional shit. I like it.

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>>1086052
Comparison

>>1086052
Im the anon with the wingman. I carry a surge in my work bag as a easier to use tool. For the times when i dont bring my tool box. Thing us a champ

>>1085309
>multitool
More like fucking meme tool.
Why would I want lots of shitey tools all bolted together when I can carry 3 or 4 tools that do the same thing but better and more ergonomic and I can lend someone e.g. A knife or a pliers without losing everything.
Pleb tier shite.

>>1086076
Yup i have room in my pocket for all that.

>>1086080
If your pockets weren't full of double ended dragon dildos you might

>>1086097
Well i wear regular fit pants. I carry my cell, a pocket knife, a leatherman, keys and my keltec. So there full. Must be easy to critique when your busy masturbating to trap porn in your moms basement.

>>1086101
What do you use Leatherman for if you have a separate knife?
Nail file?
Nose hair trimmer?
Do you really carry a gun in your pocket? Seems pretty stupid.

>>1086101
Keltec? Why do you need to carry a paperweight?

>>1086120
They work pretty damn well, ask treyvon martins mom. Nope my leatherman is multipurpose. I use my pocketknife for cutting.food mostly i eat a lot of fruit if you know what that is. I carry a gun because of my profession my good neck beard.

>>1086123
Just giving you a little grief, good anon. If Keltec works for you, then good for you. Though I came very close to asking if you were George in my first post...

I keep hearing about Surges and Waves etc. My Leatherman just says Leatherman, and Portland Or. Anybody still carry one of those besides me?

>>1086146
Hahah fair enough, i needed a small gun that was light and had a good price point. My dad had a leatherman matching that description years ago. Dissapeared when he died.

>>1086123
> carry gun
> carry multitool for no purpose
> carry knife to eat fruit with
> call others neckbeard
Best be trolling guy.
You need a knife to eat fruit maybe you mean you use a knife to rape gay guys is that what you mean?

Mechanic (fighters to lawn mowers and anything in-between) of many years here. Leatherman 300 is life since I can't carry my rollaround box on my back. I've worn out several multitools, praise be to Allah for free exchanges.

Autists care about what tool they use. I care about knowing how to use a wide variety of tools to get the results I require. Tools are expendable, the job is not. Tools can be modified as needed, but the job must be done.

Have as many as practical for a given task set. At home or shop (ideal home has or is a shop), gear up all the way. On the road, I pack enough tools to perform most automotive emergency and routine repairs which isn't a lot and I've plenty of truck space. I EDC a quality flashlight (Pelican with an upgraded emitter and rechargeable batteries) and a good multitool as minimum. They get used. If they didn't, I'd not carry them. I ride so my riding jacket gets a folding hex key set, metric for Jap or US for HD depending on bike of day.

>Best multitool is angle grinder. Try to correct me on this.

For shop I used the fuck out of my beloved Metabo 150 with 6" cutting discs and flap wheels, but that won't be much use on the road or when fucking with computers etc away from the house. Now you mention it I might cut up the next POS consumer garbage notebook that comes my way. I've never sawn a PC in half.

>>1086158
>You need a knife to eat fruit maybe you mean you use a knife to rape gay guys is that what you mean?

I like the way you think. Rape is just assault with a friendly weapon anyway, the knife is foreplay.

god these looks like dildos
have a proper set of tools

>>1085579
>Carrying your whole toolbox on your waist

>>1085583
Had one. Sucked compared to Leatherman 300. It's buried somewhere IDGAF.

A multitool is
>poor pair of pliers
>poor screwdriver
>extremely poor knife

Yet people act like they cant live without them on the job.
As if its hard to carry a knife, pliers, and a bitted screwdriver around when you know your job requires them.

People act like their shitty multitool replaces a whole toolbox

>>1086196
When I'm on the job I keep pliers, Stanley knife and three screwdrivers on me. It's not an imposition because I don't wear a gay mans jeans.
I'm too clumsy to be trusted with one of those hex bit screwdrivers,I could lose all the bits just opening the packet.

>>1086196
Except for a skeletool, which is an okayish set of pliers, a good set of screwdrivers, and a decent knife, all in a package the size and weight of a regular pocket knife..

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After seeing a bunch of threads about multitools, I started shopping around for one. The very cheapest ones out there are $40 with half the tools I've never needed or wanted. Like a 1 inch file, fish scaler, or some useless flathead screwdrivers. In reality, its a couple poor screwdrivers, a chinese quality knife, and a needlenose plier.

Past MT threads talked about having multiple tools in case you ever could possibly need them, but never having to carry around an assortment of tools with your EDC. However nobody ever uses a multitool out and about just out of the blue. Most people who think of phantasmagorical uses for these multitools are usually professional autists in training.

Then the other half of these threads are jagoffs claiming to use their multi tool for work more often than their real tools in a truck or toolbox. In reality, if you carry pic related you could carry every single full-size tool from a multi tool getting the job done quicker and easier. Not to mention you'd still have room to spare. Pic is what I use daily.

EVERY contractor I know carries either a tool belt, or has a small mechanics bag with them everywhere they go. I even asked if they use a multitool. One said after wearing out, losing, or breaking $100 multitools throughout the year, it simply wasn't worth it as a professional.

>>1087322
>inb4 someone has an obscure job where a multitool sounds like its a good tool for the job

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Pic related is best Leatherman, because it is mine and it is not yours.

I install PC hardware, data and electrical, to me the Supertools are the best balance between heft and features. I can, and do, use this to drive nails, file has plenty of bite, screw tips are small enough to do blockwork but not so small that they are flimsy on bigger jobs. I wish like hell this had both a #1 and #2 Philips but a 2 will do. Replaceable blades for the wire cutter, jobs done for mine.

This replaces a 15 year old Supertool 200 that, despite being in outstanding condition (handle pivots and jaw are a little looser than I like), was replaced becuase sentimental value. My now departed brother bought it for me for my 18th, I would literally kill myself if I lost that tool or someone damaged it through misuse.

>>1087348
I'm not going to say that they are indispensable to X industry, but I will say there have been more times that I have thought "thank fuck I had that on my belt" than "Jesus fuck this thing is getting in the way". The ability to quickly do something adhoc without having to haul back to x location for a tool is is more beneficial to me than being without, putting up with a lump of steel on my belt that I don't notice unless I'm getting in and out of a vehicle is a worthy price to pay.

That's basically my sole metric of whether an item is worth EDC to be honest. Do I spend more time cursing it's presence, or lamenting it's absence?

>>1087368
My problem with multitools is all the bullshit you do not need. If there were a modular system that the end user could buy individual "tools" for, that would be best.

Seriously though, really think about the tools you use 90% of the time on your multitool; pliers, screwdrivers, knife, file. Now find those full size counterparts and pile them next to your multitool. Put those into a small tool belt and see just how much more shit you can carry and realize you're using the right tools for the job.

Like you said, you use it to drive nails, which you know is not the right tool for the job.

>>1087368
> install pc hardware.
You need 1 single tool, a screw driver.
Because of its obstructive size and shape amultitool is terrible for this application.
Hth
> install data
Again, ideally you want a sprung punchdown, doubt you will find that on amultitool. A set of fish rods? I would love to see that
>electrical
Clearly your and my opinions of what constitutes electrical differ somewhat, I can tell that before I even consider what tools are appropriate.

If you carry a multitool it's because you think you are this generations Swiss army knife mcguyver type. Well I got news for you, you ain't.

Maybe if you carried one that had all the tools to adjust your bicycle or something that would make sense.

mine was a disastar

It inched skiin when being opened or closed, knife blades were poorly made, screwdriver tips bent easily

>>1085495

>even my own motor with it

As a boat man myself I call bullshit on this.

We always carried a toolbox on board any boat I have worked on unless it was a 12ft rib dinghy or smaller. But those are tenders and you are never too far from the actual boat/ship.

>Outside, at work (if your work isn't basically being in your she or somewhere where you have access to tools) or even on an /out/door situation, a multitool is almost a must have

I had a multi tool and any time I started a small task the first thing I did was gauge up if it was worth my time to go back to the truck, shed, boat, house, whatever to get some actual tools or to fart around with the damn multi-tool. Often enough I walked, swam, drove, piloted back to get the tool box. Still have the bitch but it hardly gets used.

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>>1087559
SOG

My Powerassist has externally opening blades, the best damn pair of pliers I've ever used, single-handed butteryfly-knife opening, and modular tools.

Instead of having Leatherman's three different kinds of can-opener, I've got a 1/4" driver and a full AWG stripper set inside. With the crimper in the handles, it is the only tool I need to get most electrical work done.

Sure, the metal quality is shit these days but they still have a lifetime warranty which they've honored several times for me over the last 6 years. It's also HUGE compared to the Leatherman, but it geniunely feels like a tool while the leatherman feels like a toy.

>>1087586
A pair of knipex would do the job and last forever.

>>1087596
I know they do make quality pliers, but I do really like the compound leverage of my SOG. It's gotten me a better grip on a stripped bolt head more times than I can count.

That, and my line of work has me doing a lot of impromptu electrical jobs. I've tried carrying around strippers/crimpers and they're always a pain and I end up leaving them somewhere, whereas this thing always sits on my hip and I can also use it to field-fix my POS 30 year old Honda.

>>1087586
I was issued one when I was in the army back in the early 2000s. Most garbage multitool I have ever used. Maybe they have improved in the decade since. Heres my experience:

It was the gunmetal black finish because tactical. That started to wear off after about a month and went all polished steel around the corners on me. So, that was useless.

The pliers were decent. Problem was, if you want to get them on any decent sized bolt you had to open them up huge and then you couldn't get your hands around them. The handles were also uncomfortable as shit.

The tools were a joke. The standard knife had a single bevel, was about as sharp as a butter knife and was curved slightly. The serrated blade was decent. The screwdriver broke after about a dozen uses. Never needed the can opener. The file was concave on one side, which was great for filing your nails and not much else. The little flaps that covered the tools were annoying and didn't help comfort much.

The butterfly opening was cool but the rest of the tools was so shit it didn't matter.

I bought a Victorinox Swisstool a few months later and it was night and day better. When I got deployed they issued us all Gerber multitools that were very similar in design but had the sliding jaws. You had to open the tool to to get to any of the blades. It was still 900% better than the SOG because the tools were USEFUL and the knives were SHARP.

After my Swisstool got stolen I bought a Leatherman Wave because it was on sale locally super cheap ($25 I think for just the tool). Its the only thing that I've used thats about as good quality as the Swisstool.

>>1087598
So, if you're on the job why not carry real tools in a tool belt or have a mechanics bag with you?

>>1087600
They got better and peaked around 2009-2011, but went back to shit recently. I keep a Gerber Artifact for when I need an actually sharp knife and use the one on a SOG mostly as lever/box opener. The PowerAssist does have a better blade than the standard one, but again I don't really use it all that much for cutting. I ditched the can-opener for the 1/4" driver and yeah, the file is totally useless.

I've no complaints about the bolt sizes or feeling in my hands, but I've got these skinny little engineer fingers and soft palms.

~70% of what I use this thing for is wire-stripping, crimping, and holding hot shit. I'm yet to see a tool that can do the first two as well as this can in as small of a package. I looked into the Wave and the Swisstool, but I can't really see myself using the 4 different flatheads either have or the world's cutest pair of scissors. The SOG works great for me right now, which is far from industrial or military use

>>1087602
It's a pain to try to solder 28awg wire as is, I don't want a hammer poking into my side while I'm trying to do it. And I do keep my mechanics bag in my car, but the SOG is already on my hip and good for 95% of the stuff I do.

>>1087604
So don't carry a hammer in your hammer loop?

I've had a leatherman wave since I was 7. Still in great shape 16 years later.

>>1087620
>tools that have no real use and sit on the shelf
>still being in shape after sitting around

Im not sure thats a real accomplishment

>>1087641
I took that shit on every boy scout outing and hunting trip growing up, and basically any time I do outdoors stuff now. It aint a useful tool when you can have a toolbox, but a nuts coming loose on some equipment 60 miles from the nearest anything but wilderness and it's pretty nice to have.

>>1087604
> crimping
>pliers
Please kill yourself immediately thankyou

>>1087660
This makes sense, I find nuts are always coming loose, especially those pesky tent nuts they are the worst. I can't drive my car more than two miles without having to tighten every single nut and bolt on it. Oh wait.

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>>1085598
I've got the Wingman's cousin, the Sidekick!

I've got a Leatherman ST300.

Useful bit to carry around once I acquired a homestead.

Broke the tip of half of the pliers off removing a blank firing adaptor from my service rifle.

Previously broke two screwdrivers (guess Soviet screws are harder than American steel).

Shipped it off for repair or replacement today - zero hassle from the dealer. Said I'd probably get a new one in a week or two.

If that all plays out - I'd say it's a nifty bit of gear, useful for both countryside EDC and military use - and elevated to excellence through the warranty.

>>1086097
Bad dragon doesn't even make double ended dillys dumbass

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Been meaning to get a Wing for ages, but I haven't had the need to. Own a SAK Tinker Deluxe and it honestly meets most of my basic needs.

>>1085325
id love to have one but 170$ is way over my budget

>>1088313
It took victorinox way too long to actually make the tinker deluxe which is pretty much full of only useful tools compared to e.g. the Swiss champion

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>>1088983
>It took victorinox way too long to actually make the tinker deluxe
1987?

The best SAK with only useful tools is the S557
Of course its not a real Victorinox, its a Wegner design that Victorinox is continuing to make.

Its pretty good

>>1086052
I like the toolset on the Wave better tbqhwypham
I'm waiting for Leatherman to give the Wave the replaceable wirecutters from the Rebar though.

I'd like a mutitool to keep in my bag.

thing is, i want a cheap one so i can lose it or break it without it being an issue.

i got a basement full of decent tools so I'm not too worried about quality.

just something to have when I'm on the go.

got any decent, cheap multitools to recommend me?

>>1087348
>inb4 someone has an obscure job where a multitool sounds like its a good tool for the job

I suppose that maybe I'm the one. I worked for several years at a shop that built performance street and race cars. We did everything except paint at our shop, from stripping cars out and building rollcages from scratch to wiring to suspension setup. We spent a lot of time wedged into car interiors at awkward angles, and a multitool was a godsend when I needed a tool for one small thing because climbing around cage tubes and down off a lift to go get an actual tool was a huge pain in the ass. Tool belts aren't an option in that situation either, not just because they get in the way when working in confined spaces but also because there's a good chance of damaging interior paint or upholstery, and they prevent you from sitting in a racing bucket seat when you need to move a car or bleed brakes or whatever.

Sometimes you just need to pull out one screw or snip one piece of welding wire, and other times you might need two of the same tool at the same time and only have one of the real thing on you. (I've found this often happens with pliers.) MTs are also nice when you need to do something abusive and don't want to fuck up your nice tools, I particularly like having a second knife that I can use for prying or getting all gunked up on wiring insulation or whatever instead of beating my nice actual knife.

>>1085309
Leatherman surge

>>1091161
BLUB BLUBU DON KNO HOW TO USE TOOLS U JUS THINK U NEED LETHRMEN BCUZ U KNO NO BETTER JACK OF NO TRADES FAGGOT OF ALL LOL LRN 2 USE TOOLS FGT NO ONE NEVR NEEDS LEATHRYMEN,

Ive posted in several of these threads in the past. Im a trade trainer, and use my black surge around 20-40 x daily.
Lets check out my last weekend:

> Get phone call to pick up hot asian babe down the road.
> jump in '01 wagon, take off
> maybe 10k down road, overheating light comes on. Mfw
> fck. Pull over on side under shitty bushes. Oh look top rad hose has 1" split, pretty much no coolant left.
> fck it. Leave it to cool. Walk to bottle-o across the road. Buy a 2lt coke and four pack of devils cut premix.
> pour coke out fill with water from shitty tap. walk back. 2 tins left.
> look in tool box (older car means big toolbox).... oh here is my box cutter. Oh look the blade was snapped and i forgot.
> fck it. Surge to unscrew clamps, cut back hose, jamb shortend pipe on and surge retightens.
> pour water from coke bottle in.
> mfw i have no tins left
> drive off. Pick up honey. Drive home
> i was late, showed her the pipe offcut. Got kudos and extra benefits.

One word. Surge.

>>1085309
Its objectively superior to my wingman but not enough so that id upgrade

>>1091161
I use mine when stocking and ckeaning at my job
Fixing shelves
Cutting boxes
Cutting wrap
Cutting ties holding flattened boxes together

Not to mention the usefullness of the scissors
They get used more than any knife i have

>>1090834
Idk what you call cheap, but a wingman runs 30-40 and theyre pretty good

>>1091302
If you had used proper tools in the first place and not used pliers to tighten hose and shit maybe the pipe wouldn't have split at all?

>>1085309
Reminder that the best multitool in existence is worse than a dollar store 5 in 1 and a $5 knife.

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I wish Gerber had better quality. I have this thing and it's probably the best design for an EDC multitool ever, with a nice big pair of good scissors and drivers that actually have decent reach, but the materials and manufacturing are just so fucking horrible.

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>All these faggots putting their Waves in their pockets

Build a holster you dweebs.

>>1091684
Because belt holster people look less like gigantic nerds.

>>1091689
But you cant draw your multitool with one finger, without looking. I can.

>>1091690
How do you hold your MT with one finger? Do you normally look at your pocket when getting something out of it?

>>1091691
Finger on the end with the other end on the palm.

>>1091692
So if you have a free hand to grab your tool that you weren't previously using, why wouldn't you just grab it from your pocket like a normal person?

>>1091697
If you are like me and use your multitool 20+ times in an afternoon, you would understand.

>>1091698
No i'm a normal person that uses actual tools.

>>1091704

Want me to tell you how I know you dont work in a fabrication shop?

>>1091707
Because a pair of pliers and a couple of screwdrivers are too much to carry in a fab shop?

>>1091707
Multitool for a fabrication shop? Do you fabricate dollhouses?

>>1091709
Because when you need to remove a small burr you are going to run all the way back to your tool chest instead of just wiping out the metal file on your pocket tool? Because when you need to cut open some packaging on a new spool of MIG wire you are going to run back to your tool chest for a box cutter or pair of scissors instead of using the blade on your leatherman..

etc..

You literally are retarded if you think multitools are worthless.

>>1091712
whipping

>>1091712
>small burr
If you're machining something, you're going to have a file or edging tool nearby always, or position your tool chest within reasonable proximity and perform finish operations all in the same step.

Opening packaging can be done with a knife, or compress the sides of a box and grip the tape off. Open it like theres a cupcake inside, fatty. Who doesn't have a pocket knife on them anyway?

go on, tell me more about your lazy kid tool

>>1091712
>work in a shop
>know exactly what tools I need for my job

>20+ times every single work day you are sitting without the proper tools handy
>for some unknown reason literally refuse to keep them close or carry them to where you would be working

Logical

>>1091717
Why would you carry a knife, instead of a leatherman? It only can do one thing, that the multitool can do in addition to many other things.

>>1091718
Where do you work that you have to open clamshell packages daily? Walmart?

>>1091719
>It only can do one thing, that the multitool can do in addition to many other things.

It can do a ton of extra things, all of them poorly!
And why carry a proper knife when you can have a poor one!

Why dont you just buy a bunch of as seen on TV tools and fill your toolbox up with them too?
Im sure you can replace most of your tools with space saving and "universal" tools!

>>1091710
I used mine all the time for clipping TIG rods when I worked in a fab shop.

To be fair, though, we were a weird shop, a small clusterfuck of a place where the shop owned all the tools, and the mechanics would always run off with our one pair of dykes and then I'd have to run all over the place searching for them when I needed to cut something. The owner was a cheapass and wouldn't buy more, and I considered buying my own but there was no point when my Leatherman did the same job just fine. (The mechanics, by the way, were a succession of short-term morons without certifications or their own boxes, again because the owner was a cheapass who didn't want to pay a good rate, and they were a big part of why I left the business. The place was great when it was just the owner and me, but we got quite popular and needed more staff and the owner refused to hire anybody decent.)

Also, I always carried a multitool AND a traditional knife. I only used my good knife for regular cutting, and the knife on the multitool for anything that stood a good chance of bending the blade or chipping the edge or whatever.

As for sheathes, I used a HSGI Taco pistol magazine pouch, and it was awesome. They're great because they retain the tool very well but leave the top open to instant access, and the belt loop is at the top so the tool hangs below your belt and doesn't dig into your side when you're bending around at weird angles to weld shit.

>>1091722
How is the knife on a leatherman bad? Seriously? It cuts things just as well as your $120 spyderco. It's not my fault you have autism.

>>1091723
This is one good reason to carry a multitool
Because you have a shitty job at a shitty shop

>>1091724
>$120 spyderco.
>at work

>claims that I am the one with autism

>acting like using a brittle hard to sharpen supesteel on a work knife is a good thing

>>1091729
Then how can you possibly be hating on the knife on a leatherman?

>>1091730
So leatherman varieties have a few different steels on their knives.
Either you are using their complete shit 420 that doesnt hold an edge, or you are using something like their S30V which chips every easily in a blade that size.Not only that its very difficult to sharpen back up.

Both are very poor choices for a beat around work knife.
But hey, why would anyone be logical and use utility blades when you can use an unwieldy multi tool that wont work as well.

>>1091735
A multitool will work just as well as any box cutter- except it can do other things as well. Sure, the screwdrivers, scissors, etc may suck, but they work in a pinch. It can do everything a box cutter can do but so much more.

>>1091738
A small tool belt pouch which carries actual tools works better
>inb4 someone works upside down in very confined spaces and is never standing would always be resting on the tool belt and their hand is holding a fabrige egg so tools must be usable with 1 hand only

>>1091740
Of course actual tools are better. A multitool is to take care of the little things you dont anticipate. For instance, I don't normally need a knife. But yesterday, I had to open a new spool of mig wire, and my multitool came in handy. What if an arm on your glasses comes a bit loose, or a lens pops out? The mini screwdrivers on leathermans can handle it. Do you carry around mini screw drivers on your tool belt every day?

What if you are up on a roof and you have to trim a 2x4 or something because you measured wrong? The saw on a leatherman can get through a 2x4 in like 30 seconds.

Sure, a pair of knipex nippers is ALWAYS a better option than the wirecutters on the leatherman, but sometimes you might not have your good nippers on hand.

>>1091741
>spool of mig wire
My spools usually come with a bit of the wire wrapped around a convenience hole on the side of the spool, or simply taped to itself. Nothing a fingernail can't do.
>glasses
I'm not a nerd and can see just fine.
>measured wrong
Then you're doing it wrong. Why are you putting 2x4's on the roof anyway?
If i'm doing a job, i get my tool belt, tool tray, or put the tools in my pants pockets, every tool I have ever used for a task and some which may come in handy. A little thought and prepwork into the job and I don't need to rush to a toolbox or use an inferior tool.

>>1091746
>too stupid to understand the concept of examples
man it really is too obvious that you don't have a college degree.

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>>1091735
I really wish LM would use a better work steel on their knives.

I just took this pic for /k/ a few minutes ago, these are the two that I used everyday at work for several years. The N680 on the Benchmade is based as fuck, great edge retention and incredible corrosion resistance, perfect work knife material. I was never abusive to it but it certainly got its fair share of use, and handled everything I threw at it, as long as I did basic maintenance once a week or so. (Mr. Clean Magic Erasers are amazing for cleaning gunk out of G10, BTW.)

The LM, on the other hand, is completely fucked to shit, because everyday stuff like cutting zipties eats chunks out of the edge.

>>1091746
>I'm not a nerd and can see just fine.

Man I hate this fucking stereotype. It's not my fault that I have fucked up eye genetics, and contacts are a really bad idea in a shop environment.

Shoddy engineering on the Rebar especially in comparison to some of Leatherman's older tools. I have no idea why it consistently has such high praise. Just had to say that.

>>1085581
>>1092592
Seems the cutters were designed for the larger Super Tool 300 and were tossed into the Rebar design later because they're disproportionately large on that. Stupid shit like that makes me not want to buy another LM.

>>1092592
I found this with the Rebar too. Mine got fucked up in a totally unacceptable way, went to undo the guard screw on a bench grinder and the big flathead driver actually twisted. Absolute insanity that LM made a screwdriver that can't handle a slightly tight screw. (And it wasn't even that tight, I screwed it off no problem and didn't notice the bend until I went to close the bit.)

>>1091755
> cut zip ties with a knife
Wow what a fucking little faggot

>>1092622
Wow I sure wish I had a multi tool now!! They sound really great!!!

I mean I supposed you're right if you don't take skeletool cx in to consideration

>>1085802
CX is better because of the blade in my onion.

Actually just got my leatherman wave in today. Was really excited at first and now kinda wish I had gotten the surge