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Look out Leatherman!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dear-god-that's-crazy dept.

softwaregadgets writes "I use a leatherman for most of my hardware work today (less then optimal!), but its going in the bin this summer to leave space in my pocket for this one." I love my leatherman too, but crikey! That thing is just crazy looking.

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  1. How do you hold it? by slk · · Score: 2

    It looks like an interesting design, with some good ideas. However, it also looks like it has a few fatal flaws. The first question... how do you hold it? For the knife itself that's obvious, but the rest of it doesn't appear to have any remotely comfortable place to put your hands. Several of the configurations also look like it'd be rather easy to cut your hand on the knife blade. It also looks like it'd be extremely uncomfortable to carry around, but that could be solved with a pouch/case. However, what I see as the biggest problem is that it looks like it'd take way too long to setup a lot of the tools for use. With my Victorinox Swisstool, It only takes about a second to be ready to use any of the tools. (I had a Leatherman Super Tool. It rusted.) I do think that Spyderco will get the metals and such right (they usually do, like Victorinox, unlike Leatherman) though. However, they need to work on a design with faster opening. I like Spyderco's knives (i've been thinking about buying one), but they need to look at why some of the other multitools are so useful.

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  2. Letherman Wave by Fletch · · Score: 2

    I've had the leatherman wave ( closeup ) for about 6 mos. now and I love it. I see the Spyderco having absolutley no advantage over it (except that it looks kinda neat) especially with the approx. $40 more SRP.

    btw, have you seen the new leatherman crunch ( closeup )? locking pliers...oh yeah...