Hi William I will see if these are available out here when I go to the Tool Warehouse next time
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of William Stephan Sent: Sunday, 17 January 2010 10:14 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] All Purpose Knife Ray: I've had any number of these utility tools over the years, and I'd say Leatherman is the best out there. I have a Leatherman Wave, which Has a standard knife, serrated knife, saw and double-sided file/ruler available without opening the tool. Upon opening the tool you of course have pliers and wire cutters, and a wide-bladed screwdriver, a Phillips screw driver a lanyard ring and a combination bottle/can opener on one side, and cyzors, two narrower screw driver blades and an awl on the other. The outside blades do lock, but the inner ones do not, though they're pretty stiff and the likelihood of accidentally closing them is probably pretty low. I also have the Leatherman Super tool II, which I would say is somewhat more ruggedly constructed than the Wave is. You have to open the Super Tool II to access any tools however. When you open the body, just like the Wave, you have the standard plyers/cutters, and there is a Phillips head screw driver, seraded knife, saw, comination bottle can opener and narrow-bladed screw driver on one side. The other side of the tool has a standard knife, double-sided file, one wide and one medium screw driver blade. So I guess the bottom line is that you sacrifice the cyzers for the heavier duty construction with the Super Tool. I used to hang out wit some dog mushes and other Alaskan types at various times, and they seemed to prefer the Super Tool style. It's pretty easy to adjust the blade torque (I guess that's what we'd call it), on the Super Tool, but I think you'd haee to have some kind of specialty driver to do that on the Wave, if it's even possible. Tgese are not cheap by any means, and I once bought some knock-offs made by Nickelson. I actually broke the plyers on two of those, so I guess the steel they were made of was inferior. -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Ray Boyce Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 15:58 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] All Purpose Knife Hi All I am looking around for an all purpose knife with multiple attachments on it, got any ideas what is the best. Ray [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
