What was your first multi-tool?

parnass said:
I bought an original Leatherman tool in 1991 from SMKW and carried it for years. I still have the tool and its leather belt case.
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I have one of the originals too. It's in a Zermat pouch in my wife's car, she just used it yesterday to help her sister take apart a baby crib they were putting away. One of my favorites though was the discontinued "Sideclip".
 
scars said:
I have one of the originals too. It's in a Zermat pouch in my wife's car, she just used it yesterday to help her sister take apart a baby crib they were putting away. One of my favorites though was the discontinued "Sideclip".
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Yeah, like I said I had an original. I wish I still had it, simply because it was my first one. Plus you could take it apart to clean it, and it was so broken in, it could be opened like a butterfly knife. Only 2 drawbacks to it were that the tools didn't lock down, and you couldn't dig to hard into it at the handles would dig into your hands. I do miss that thing now though.
 
i too had a few really cheapo multis(the kind with the plastic-covered handles that are ten dollars in the walmart camping dept.) as a kid. my first good multitool was a SOG powerlock i got during Christmas break of my highschool senior year. We were in Wal-Mart on New Year's eve, and they had a basket full of SOG tools on clearance. Marked down from $60 to $20! you really can't say no to a discount like that, so I thought i'd make it an early (barely) birthday present to myself. Ended up having to get my mom to make the purchase, though. apparently store policy is you have to 18 to buy a knife, and "dude, i'll be 18 in THREE HOURS" isn't good enough. even the store manager thought it was crazy, but since i had an adult with me no sense in bending the rules.


jdailey4206966 said:
I am looking into buying a crunch soon.
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i just picked up a Crunch a few days ago-really nice addition to my kit. i haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it fits well in the hand and works smoothly.
 
darth kcorbe said:
i too had a few really cheapo multis(the kind with the plastic-covered handles that are ten dollars in the walmart camping dept.) as a kid. my first good multitool was a SOG powerlock i got during Christmas break of my highschool senior year. We were in Wal-Mart on New Year's eve, and they had a basket full of SOG tools on clearance. Marked down from $60 to $20! you really can't say no to a discount like that, so I thought i'd make it an early (barely) birthday present to myself. Ended up having to get my mom to make the purchase, though. apparently store policy is you have to 18 to buy a knife, and "dude, i'll be 18 in THREE HOURS" isn't good enough. even the store manager thought it was crazy, but since i had an adult with me no sense in bending the rules.




i just picked up a Crunch a few days ago-really nice addition to my kit. i haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it fits well in the hand and works smoothly.
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I look forward to picking up a crunch soon, simply because they do look so handy. I had just turned 19 when I bought my leatherman PST, which the man behind the counter gave me crap about buying it, things like "Whats a kid your age need a tool like this for anyway? not gonna break into someones car are ya?" I looked up at the man and asked him if he was gonna ring me up, or do I need to get a manager to come and do it, which he than rang me up, and I was out the door with leatherman in hand. I remember my dad tellin me I was wasting my money on "crap" like that! Yet at least twice a day he would ask to see my leatherman, and I would say ok, here is my "crap".
My uncle still has the same ones he carried for almost 20 years now. Well broken in, and maintained, but they have been used so much the numbers on the outside for the ruler are almost worn off. A well used Leatherman.
 
First plier-multitool was a Leatherman, and when the SOG Knives Paratool was available I must have been an idiot to then buy the non-locking Gerber multiplier. Thank you Keanu Reeves, for making multipliertool flip openings so Whoa! D@%% cool!
 
My first multi was a vic Huntsman about 50 years ago. My first pliers tool was the Buck Tool as I thought the PST was a bit uncomfortable to grip hard. Some 143 Leatherman tools later, I don't think that way any more.

Joe
 
Yeah this is true, the PST wasn't comfortable because if dug into your hands, but at the time, you were proud to carry it. Either swore by it or at it. I once talked to a 40 year old man who said he got his PST as a birthday gift on his 20th birthday, In fact his first multi-tool ever and he said it hasn't left him since that day. He told me that after 5 years, the sheath was so worn that it broke, but now he carries it in his pocket. He still swears by it and doesn't want a new one. He showed it too me, and it is very smooth, and well used. The numbers engraved on the outside for the ruler are almost all the way wore down from years of carry and use, the knife is worn quite a bit, but the tool is all still in good working order because he maintains it on a schedule.:thumbup:
 
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