Artist uses only a Leatherman

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From the article "Peel slowly and see" in New York Magazine, Bronx-born artist Michael Anderson used a Leatherman tool to collect graffiti stickers and amass the largest collection in the world.

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Starting in the early nineties, Michael Anderson, a Bronx-born artist, began to amass what has come to be regarded—unofficially, and mostly by Anderson himself—as the world’s largest collection of graffiti stickers. Such a claim implies a consuming passion, but Anderson says he was never very dedicated. All he did was carry a Leatherman tool, and whenever he was out in the city he’d peel a few stickers off a wall or lamppost and slip them in a notebook. If he found one that was cool but hard to remove, he’d let the elements work on it and return later. If it was damaged or gone by then, so be it.

The collection now numbers at least 40,000—a testament to the sheer number of graffiti stickers, which are so ubiquitous in New York as to be nearly invisible, the visual equivalent of a honking taxi horn. For years, they sat quietly in notebooks in the artist’s Upper West Side apartment. Last April, the owners of the new Ace Hotel at 29th and Broadway came calling with a mural commission. Completed last month, it’s most likely the only museum devoted to this extremely ephemeral form...............
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Impressive, only think how much more successful it would have been had the artist used a SAK instead. :D
 
...or the SOG PowerAssist--it has two assisted opening graffiti scrapers! :)

I haven't done any graffiti scraping but this Schrade Tradesman would probably be my first choice:

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