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With snow piling up a**hole deep here in the far north, there wasn't much else I could do today except surf the internet. I was happy to find a new and enhanced website at Gerber.com. The old Gerber site was pretty poorly designed, which made it rather clumsy to browse through their line-up of multi tools. The new site is much improved:
http://www.gerbergear.com/browse.php?all=214
Earlier this year, Gerber introduced the full-sized Diesel and the mini-sized Shortcut. However, I was not aware of two even newer arrivals, the full-sized Suspension and the mini-sized Clutch. (I use the term "arrivals" in the literal sense, as both tools are being imported from China.)
The Shortcut (with scissors) and the Clutch (with needlenose pliers) are twins, and represent Gerber's answer to the Leatherman Squirt series of S4 and P4 mini-tools. Both are pretty well thought out, useful, and inexpensive.
The Suspension tool in my opinion is simply a pretty sales gimmick. Its cast, open-frame handle design offers no real advantages. It's also too thick, with the whole thing feeling kind of "fat" in my hand. That being said, the Suspension is actually built pretty solidly, with a strong family resemblence to the Gerber Urban Companion 700 of a few years ago. Spring-loaded pliers, locking blades, thumb studs, and titanium nitride coated handles are a few of its features.
It's too bad the knife blades are so short and stubby.
And it's a shame Gerber/Fiskars decided to go overseas to get it built.
~Bob
http://www.gerbergear.com/browse.php?all=214
Earlier this year, Gerber introduced the full-sized Diesel and the mini-sized Shortcut. However, I was not aware of two even newer arrivals, the full-sized Suspension and the mini-sized Clutch. (I use the term "arrivals" in the literal sense, as both tools are being imported from China.)
The Shortcut (with scissors) and the Clutch (with needlenose pliers) are twins, and represent Gerber's answer to the Leatherman Squirt series of S4 and P4 mini-tools. Both are pretty well thought out, useful, and inexpensive.
The Suspension tool in my opinion is simply a pretty sales gimmick. Its cast, open-frame handle design offers no real advantages. It's also too thick, with the whole thing feeling kind of "fat" in my hand. That being said, the Suspension is actually built pretty solidly, with a strong family resemblence to the Gerber Urban Companion 700 of a few years ago. Spring-loaded pliers, locking blades, thumb studs, and titanium nitride coated handles are a few of its features.
It's too bad the knife blades are so short and stubby.
And it's a shame Gerber/Fiskars decided to go overseas to get it built.
~Bob
