Hickory n steel
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Currently at work I'm carrying a '96 leatherman PST that I got of Ebay for cheap, it came to me with nothing more than a little junk drawer wear and I haven't put much wear on it myself.
It's a great compact tool, but I have found that I'm not as willing to use it as my old standby.
If I really try I could learn to use it without care like my old standby, but I have realized I really just don't want to.
It fits a watch pocket in my Jeans well and I may carry it at home from time to time.
The old friend, my " old standby " is a leatherman fuse I acquired in gently used condition as a teenager.
I'm going to go back to carrying it at work because I can use it without thinking too much and I know that it can handle the sorts of things I use it for.
This multitool is a bit special to me for the way I acquired it, I did not travel the world with it and I did not save any lives but my acquisition of it is important to me and I have simply carried and used it a ton.
I was around 15 or so and my mom's husband ( he is currently on the straight and narrow hopefully for good this time ) had found himself facing his hard drug and alcohol addiction once again.
He was bringing some shady people into the house at all hours of the night and " partying " in the garage.
At this point I did not feel safe and found myself " sleeping " with an axe leaning against the wall next to me, a few times I actually contemplated doing a bit of swinging with it if you know what I mean though I'm sure glad I didn't.
I don't rightly know if I actually could have done it but it's sure not great to be in a position where you'd even contemplate such a thing.
During all of this one of my favorite knives had gone missing off my workbench in the garage, and as compensation I took it upon myself to liberate this multitool from the shed where he had left it when he was loaded with who knows what and trying to fend off something he thought was after him.
I eventually got my knife back, but I still kept this multitool as a bit of personal compensation for my loss of sleep and " emotional distress " so to speak.
To this day he still believes he simply lost it during one of his binges ( if he hasn't forgotten considering how rarely he used it ) and I carried it on my belt everyday for years.
I think he saw me using it a couple times after he had sobered up and returned but didn't realize it was not the cheap $10 Chinese multitool I was previously known to carry.
At some point my mom wanted me to return it since I did get my knife back but it was no longer about that and he wasn't looking for it, so I dremeled my initials into it and as far as my mom was concerned that was that.
I believe I will probably continue to use it till it is has to be retired, then I just may find another or just carry the PST and learn to use it just the same.
It's a great compact tool, but I have found that I'm not as willing to use it as my old standby.
If I really try I could learn to use it without care like my old standby, but I have realized I really just don't want to.
It fits a watch pocket in my Jeans well and I may carry it at home from time to time.
The old friend, my " old standby " is a leatherman fuse I acquired in gently used condition as a teenager.
I'm going to go back to carrying it at work because I can use it without thinking too much and I know that it can handle the sorts of things I use it for.
This multitool is a bit special to me for the way I acquired it, I did not travel the world with it and I did not save any lives but my acquisition of it is important to me and I have simply carried and used it a ton.
I was around 15 or so and my mom's husband ( he is currently on the straight and narrow hopefully for good this time ) had found himself facing his hard drug and alcohol addiction once again.
He was bringing some shady people into the house at all hours of the night and " partying " in the garage.
At this point I did not feel safe and found myself " sleeping " with an axe leaning against the wall next to me, a few times I actually contemplated doing a bit of swinging with it if you know what I mean though I'm sure glad I didn't.
I don't rightly know if I actually could have done it but it's sure not great to be in a position where you'd even contemplate such a thing.
During all of this one of my favorite knives had gone missing off my workbench in the garage, and as compensation I took it upon myself to liberate this multitool from the shed where he had left it when he was loaded with who knows what and trying to fend off something he thought was after him.
I eventually got my knife back, but I still kept this multitool as a bit of personal compensation for my loss of sleep and " emotional distress " so to speak.
To this day he still believes he simply lost it during one of his binges ( if he hasn't forgotten considering how rarely he used it ) and I carried it on my belt everyday for years.
I think he saw me using it a couple times after he had sobered up and returned but didn't realize it was not the cheap $10 Chinese multitool I was previously known to carry.
At some point my mom wanted me to return it since I did get my knife back but it was no longer about that and he wasn't looking for it, so I dremeled my initials into it and as far as my mom was concerned that was that.
I believe I will probably continue to use it till it is has to be retired, then I just may find another or just carry the PST and learn to use it just the same.
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