Has anyone got a ST 300 Yet?

The sheath pictured has a cutout in the top-flap. If youre looking at it from the front its on your left side.
Is that so an extra flashlight mounted in the LM sheath wont interfere with the flap??
 
I haven't tried putting the Super Tool 300 in the Core sheath but both multi-tools are very close in size. The Super Tool 300 is maybe 1mm longer but about the same width.

My Core leather sheath is packed away somewhere. I had also been using the Molle sheath to carry the Core.
 
I still didn't find my leather Core sheath but based on it's dimensions the Super Tool 300 is likely to fit. Here's a quick photo of the two standard sheath options (nylon and leather).

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Got mine today. Forgot how big the 4.5" versions are. Seems gigantic compared to the Wave.

I'd prefer that it had a scissor in place of one of the 3 flat screwdrivers, and that it open smoothly like a SOG or Vic Swiss Tool, but I knew these things going in. Its a big honker, and should take a lot of abuse and last a long time. Would also be nice if the blade or serrated blade had marking so you could tell which was which before opening. I'm nitpicking.

My leather sheath seems well-made, and the lettering is straight.

Think I prefer the Wave for belt carry, as it is smaller, has scissors and the blades can be accessed from the outside. The 300 will ride in my glove compartment or vehicle manpurse.

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powernoodle said:
...My leather sheath seems well-made, and the lettering is straight...
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Good to know. I'm going to think of my sheath with the crooked lettering as a limited run (highly collectible). ;)

powernoodle said:
...I'd prefer that it had a scissor in place of one of the 3 flat screwdrivers, and that it open smoothly like a SOG or Vic Swiss Tool...
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I'm hoping that mine will loosen up a bit with use. The old Super Tool could flip open after it was broken in. Check out this guy's fancy moves:

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Just a few thoughts.

1. It feels light, you notice that 1. something ounce less than the Core right off the bat.

2. For me the Core is more comfortable in the hand, the cut outs on the ST 300 leave hot spots on my hand, may take a little getting use to.

3. I see three good points to the ST 300, It is lighter, You have a better cutter in the replaceable wire cutters and they beefed up the pivot pins on the locking system.

4. Will it replace my Core? I will rotate them for carry and I do want to work with the ST 300 before I say to much more, this is just my initial impressions.

5. Leatherman may have been better served to have put the pliers(from the ST 300) on the Core and beefed up the Pivot pins on the locking system and called it the Core II.

RickJ
 
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Seems like in all the Pics of the ST 300, the large flat head screw driver is right next to the PE Blade, well mine is not, the Medium Flat head screw driver is, then the large one. This is not what the pics show on the website or the pics in this thread.

I think this is a bad QC problem, this makes two Leathermans that I have had issues with because of QC.

RickJ
 
RikckJ, Thanks for your post! I've gotta agree with you about the cutouts. I do like the old style handles but the larger cutouts remove a lot of the gripping surface from the handles. The large driver is next to the plain edge blade on mine. I don't think that it should but hopefully it doesn't prevent the pliers from fully closing. Out of of curiousity, what was the other issue with a Leatherman?
 
When the Charge first came out, I bought one and some how they had the same scales on both sides, the inch markings were the same.

RickJ
 
I talked about how leatherman would have been better off making improvments to the Core instead of bringing out the ST 300, Another improvement, they could have used those big blade cutouts instead of nail knicks on the back sides of the Core blades saving weight and making the blades easier to open. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I don't see the ST 300 being a big hit! In fact I call it a failer, Yes it has some good points but those points could have been put in the Core as improvements to that tool.


RickJ
 
Wow! I think failure is pretty harsh! But I do appreciate your opinion. I actually really like the new Super Tool 300. In some ways (the more robust locks and Super Tool 200-style handles), I think it's what the Core should have been. Leatherman has also paid a great deal of attention to blade/tool access. I also like the removeable/replaceable cutter. Performance wise, the Super Tool 300 makes a cleaner cut on stranded and solid wires but the hardwire cutter of the the Core actually was better at cutting through the nail (the Super Tool 300 cut part way and snapped the nail in half).

RickJ, I thought that you didn't like the blade cut outs because of "hot spots". Am I understanding correctly, that you would like the cut outs added to the Core?
 
But read what I said on the backside of the blade where the nail knicks are, so the handle would not be changed at all on the Core, it would just have a super large nail knick.

RickJ
 
supratentorial said:
I'm going to think of my sheath with the crooked lettering as a limited run (highly collectible). ;)
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You know, the more I look at that pic, the more I think that the lettering may not crooked. If you straighten up the flap/top of the sheath so that the right side is straight up and down (if that makes sense), it looks like the lettering would be straight.
 
RickJ, Got it. Larger nail nicks would be good on the Core but I rarely use the nail nicks to open its blades--I just pull the blade out with my fingers.

powernoodle, You are correct. :thumbup: There goes my claim to its value as a collector's item! ;)
 
I guess I would have been more happy if it did'nt leave hot spots on my hand ( I think that could have been fixed if they rounded off the edge of the spine on the blades in that area) or that Screw Driver was in the right place, yes it does not effect the over all function of the tool but I just hate the thought of the QC breakdown, urks me to no end, Surely Leatherman can afford for a person to be at the end of the line and look at the tools for Quality Control before they are packed up. Would not take but a moment at the most for each tool. I will use the ST 300 when the need comes around and it may grow on me but I still believe Leatherman would have been better off Putting the pliers on the Core, beefing up the locking mechanism (I had that break on a Core in Afghanistan because it was dropped off of a building 15 ft high) No wonder, that won't happen again. I did talk about that here after my return, from Afghanistan. and of course the other thing is the large cut outs, but I can only hope that the future will bring something even better.

RickJ
 
Rick, my 300 is configured like yours, with the medium flat head screw driver next to the blade.

I don't characterize that as a QC issue, as I don't see how one way is better than the other. But I see your point. You like uniformity, as do I.

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Who knows, maybe it was a last minute change, but it is not like the website shows or supratentorial's tool, but as long as it works and it does, I will keep it, I don't think it calls for a return.

RickJ
 
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