Your favorite style can opener on a multitool?

Which style works best for you?

  • Victorinox (regular)

    Votes: 25 52.1%

  • Victorinox (combo tool)

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • Leatherman PST/Wave/Charge/Surge/Rebar/Supertool

    Votes: 5 10.4%

  • Leatherman Juice

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • P-38

    Votes: 5 10.4%

  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 2 4.2%

  • I don't use the can opener on a multitool

    Votes: 7 14.6%
  • Total voters
    48
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Guy McVer

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Lately I have been trying all of the different can openers on my multitools. From what I've heard, the regular Victorinox can openers are supposed to be the best. In my experience it's not true. Maybe it's just the way I'm holding it. Yes I know you're supposed to use it in the forwards direction.

For me the Victorinox combo tool somehow works better for opening cans than the regular Victorinox can opener. I am wondering if that's been anyone else's experience.

The one that's worked the best for me so far has been the can opener on the Leatherman Juice models. That surprised me a lot.

The one that's been the worst is the can opener on the SOG Powerpint and the SOG Powerlitre. It's absolute garbage. It completely mangles the lid and the top of the can.

I haven't tried the regular Leatherman can opener yet. I expect it will probably work really well, but I also expected that from the regular Victorinox can opener and I found myself being really disappointed by it.
 
As a left hander I have trouble using a conventional kitchen can opener, I'm so bad my wife banned me from using them because I break them. I always use my can openers on my swiss army knives. And I guess I'm not using it as intended (left handed) but I can zip lids off quicker then the wife can with hers.
Having said that I have no other experience with rival can openers other then cutting one open with an ESEE to "impress" my wife 😁

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I just tried the can opener on my Rebar. It's the one that has worked the best for me so far, so I'm changing my vote from the Juice can opener to the regular style of Leatherman can openers. :) I'm sure the Victorinox can openers are great but they don't work as well for me. Even the Victorinox combo tool works better for me for opening cans than the regular Vic can opener does. 🤷‍♂️
 
I voted regular Victorinox. They have always worked well for me. I have used them far more often than the can openers on other multi tools and scout knives. Maybe through practice i just got good with them.
 
A.L. said:
I haven't used can opener in billions and billions years!
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It had also been many years since I had used one.... until covid 19 hit.

When folks started emptying the shelves of our local grocery stores, we bought a small stockpile of emergency canned foods (because they're good for several years and make great provisions for when you just can't get fresh stuff).
And now that the grocery stores are back to nearly full supply capacity, we have a bit more canned foods that we need and we need to eat them before they expire.
So, we're slowly working on emptying the pantry to make room for more current foods.
 
SAKsRCool said:
I picked the Vic because of the small flat/phillips driver.
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That is a great reason to go with a Vic can opener because of the extra functionality it has. It also works for pulling staples. The Vic can openers are also pretty decent as pry tools due to the thin shape of the blade. You can wedge it between things that the flat driver/cap lifter is too fat for.

There is also extra functionality to the "claw" style can openers found on most Leathermans, the old Wengers before Victorinox took over, and many other boy scout or swiss army style knockoffs. They can be used as package openers. They can also be used as a reamer in case you don't have a dedicated awl. You can't do that with a Vic can opener. You can use the Vic style can opener to cut tape on packages, but the claw style can openers are a lot more effective and versatile as package openers when compared to the Victorinox can openers.

So there are trade offs, but both styles do have their own extra benefits.
 
Guy McVer said:
That is a great reason to go with a Vic can opener because of the extra functionality it has. It also works for pulling staples. The Vic can openers are also pretty decent as pry tools due to the thin shape of the blade. You can wedge it between things that the flat driver/cap lifter is too fat for.

There is also extra functionality to the "claw" style can openers found on most Leathermans, the old Wengers before Victorinox took over, and many other boy scout or swiss army style knockoffs. They can be used as package openers. They can also be used as a reamer in case you don't have a dedicated awl. You can't do that with a Vic can opener. You can use the Vic style can opener to cut tape on packages, but the claw style can openers are a lot more effective and versatile as package openers when compared to the Victorinox can openers.

So there are trade offs, but both styles do have their own extra benefits.
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Supposed to be able to pull a cork with the Vicks as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/multitools/comments/yc6ox8
 
Drop bear said:
Supposed to be able to pull a cork with the Vicks as well.
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I don't see a reason why it wouldn't also work with a claw style can opener, but there's probably no point anyway when the knife blade can do it too. You can do that with basically any blade that isn't wider than the mouth of the bottle.
 
The Victorinox " swiss army knife " isn't a multitool , but would get my vote if it were because they're a great light duty philips screwdriver.
My most used would be the can opener on my leatherman fuse , but that would be to deburr various plastic and pipe / tubing such as copper aluminum and PVC.
I have not once used the can opener on my leatherman bond for anything because it has an awl.

I have tested the leatherman fuse can opener ,Vic can opener, and the can opener on my 1996 PST.
The PST can opener worked the best, probably because of the thickness and steep edge angle that really opens the steel up wide with minimal effort.

If I opened cans with them I'd give it to the PST because it seemed to work the best, if this weren't just about opening cans I'd go with the very versatile leatherman fuse and bond...ect can opener.


Btw the earlier generation PST can opener is not the same as the rebar...ect.
 
Hickory n steel said:
The Victorinox " swiss army knife " isn't a multitool
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Yes it is. Lost of things are. A lot of people use the term to exclusively refer to leatherman style pliers, but that's not the only kind of multitool that exists. The term also includes swiss army knives and a lot of other things as well, such as the thing you carry with your bicycle in case you have to fix it out on the road/trail. You probably have a multitool in your kitchen drawer. It opens bottles, pokes holes in the top of juice cans, and it might even open wine bottles too. You have another multitool in the medicine cabinet of your bathroom. It clips your nails, it has a nail file, and it also has a cleaner to scrape gunk from underneth your nails.
 
Guy McVer said:
Yes it is. Lost of things are. A lot of people use the term to exclusively refer to leatherman style pliers, but that's not the only kind of multitool that exists. The term also includes swiss army knives and a lot of other things as well, such as the thing you carry with your bicycle in case you have to fix it out on the road/trail. You probably have a multitool in your kitchen drawer. It opens bottles, pokes holes in the top of juice cans, and it might even open wine bottles too. You have another multitool in the medicine cabinet of your bathroom. It clips your nails, it has a nail file, and it also has a cleaner to scrape gunk from underneth your nails.
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Swiss army " knife " , not swiss army multitool.
It's a knife with other implements incorporated into it.
Like a scout knife, an MIL-K-818 " demo knife " , an electricians knife, a sportsmesser, a harness jack, a grafting or " budding " knife, a mushroom knife, or a lobster pattern, or the old Camillus fishing toothpick with scaler on the spine hook sharpener on the side and hood degorger on the end bolster.
If it's primary function is a knife, it's just a pocket knife with other implements incorporated into it.
A riggers axe or half hatchet, Tommy axe or generic claw hatchet, a claw hammer ?
These all do more than one thing, but just because something does more than one thing doesn't make it a multitool.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Swiss army " knife " , not swiss army multitool.
It's a knife with other implements incorporated into it.
Like a scout knife, an MIL-K-818 " demo knife " , an electricians knife, a sportsmesser, a harness jack, a grafting or " budding " knife, a mushroom knife, or a lobster pattern, or the old Camillus fishing toothpick with scaler on the spine hook sharpener on the side and hood degorger on the end bolster.
If it's primary function is a knife, it's just a pocket knife with other implements incorporated into it.
A riggers axe or half hatchet, Tommy axe or generic claw hatchet, a claw hammer ?
These all do more than one thing, but just because something does more than one thing doesn't make it a multitool.
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I'm not going to argue this with you further. It's pointless and off-topic. Just be aware that there are at least two different ways that people use the word. One way is to refer only to pliers-based multitools and another way is to include all multi-implement multifunction tools, like swiss army knives, bicycle multitools, and even the thing in your kitchen drawer. Both definitions are fine. Words often have more than one meaning or definition if you prefer. Usually just look at the context.
 
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