“Made from really excellent materials it should be a long-lasting tool, but has a few drawbacks...
The pliers are not sprung, which defeats the object of rounding off and smoothing the outside edges to save your hands, as you have to scrape the outside of your fingers to keep re-opening the pliers whilst in use. They're quite stiff, so even after a short time of pushing them back open left the tops of my fingers sore.
The demonstrated "one hand" opening is a bit of a stretch too, I can just about open the knife blade because it protrudes slightly further out than the rest...which you'll notice when it scrapes the backs of your fingers when re-opening those pliers.
The wire stripper, (something I was looking forward to having), is completely useless, a wasted space there that could have been utilized for a working tool.
As to access, I liked that the design claimed you could access all the tools from the outside and they were held in place by magnets - but they're not, only one magnetic part on this and it's to keep the pliers closed. Can't see the point of this, they're stiff enough to stay together anyway.
As to accessing the inner tools, you can't, you have to open all the outside tools first, which means you're perilously close to the opened blades whilst you're fiddling out the inner tools.
This order came with a free sharpening stone and oil pot. Kinda surprised at this too, I mean who uses oil stones these days? Used to use them a lot about 40 years ago but water stones or Diamond are far superior and the grits on the supplied stone are way too coarse to get a decent polished edge.
The "engraving" on the blade is not, strictly speaking, actually engraving, it's laser etching...
Overall...it's okay...but I was expecting to be blown away by a famous Leatherman and quite frankly, I'm not...and I can't return it either because I had it engraved...
I suggest you only buy one of these once you've handled it in person, never put your trust in a maker's name...
wooddragon45”
“Amazing service. I asked for Engraving on the blade. It was pretty much done and shipped out on the same day. Very quick and was kept up to date. Would give more stars if I could.”
