We think the best tool is the package opener, no more dulling your knife blade to open that Amazon package. High quality pliers that align and close tightly, a sheepsfoot knife blade, scissors, screwdrivers, and a bottle opener that is always available. The Gerber Dime is one of our favorite keychain multi tools at any price so it was a no brainer for this list. Best Keychain Size Multi Tool Under $30: Gerber Dime Overall, they don’t match up to the quality and functionality you get from the big brands (Leatherman, Gerber, SOG). Sheffield has a line of multi tools that are primarily pocket sized. For under $30 you can find our favorite EDC multi tool on eBay used – the Leatherman Skeletool. We like the Micro ToolClip for what it is, but it does have significant limitations. It is great to have a round Phillips screwdriver head rather than the flat versions found on most multi tools, even if the main handle gets in the way for some screws. Other drawbacks are the pliers release button is too close to the pocket clip, we constantly have problems with our jeans releasing the button when sliding it onto our pocket. The always-available design of the pliers does limit the jaw opening to 9/16 inch. The pliers release with button on the handle and are spring loaded. SOG updated the Micro ToolClip to Gen II in in 2010 and to Gen III in 2016, a venerable pedigree. SOG is the primary multi tool supplier to the US military and it all started with the ToolClip and Micro ToolClip in 1991, the first multi tools to have the SOG name. Best Pocket Size Multi Tool Under $30: SOG Micro ToolClip They are correctly priced around $10 because you get about 1/3 the capability of the Gerber tools but at least Amazon should stand behind their product. For many items we are big fans of AmazonBasics, but their line of multi tools is mediocre. The drop-off from the Suspension-NXT and Suspension multi tools to the other options is significant. Leatherman Wave comes with lanyard feature, in addition to those found on The Sheffield.If you can’t find the Suspension-NXT the original Suspension is still a good purchase but the improvements from the redesign are really worth hunting down the NXT. The Sheffield has been cleaned several times.Ĥ. Cheese is not a load-bearing material, and is therefore unsuitable for ladder construction.ģ. The Sheffield has never actually been near magma, nor do magical rings actually exist.Ģ. – $14.00 price tag compared to the $87.00 Leatherman Waveġ. The Sheffield Outdoorsman #12007’s key features: The important thing is that it still functions like the day I opened it up, except for the smell. It cuts flesh like butter (beef, venison, poultry, etc.) and the pliers substitute perfectly well for a fork when dinnertime comes, but best of all: it has never, ever been cleaned. It has built dry-ice bombs, Pringles-can roman candles it’s been the primary surgical device used in countless emergency procedures (that bone-saw comes in real handy sometimes), and if you built a ladder from all the cheese it has sliced, you could paint a real tall house. It has been dropped out of a moving vehicle at 55 mph, soaked in camping fuel and set ablaze, and retrieved a magical golden ring from a pool of hot liquid magma. It has opened hundreds of beers without a complaint, made scrap-metal of countless tuna-cans, and spent 36 hours completely immersed in Goobers (peanut butter + jelly + a single jar = one fantastic idea) without suffering in the slightest. Since then, The Sheffield has changed my life, and more importantly, my opinion of lard-asses in general. This was no sleek, aerodynamic, ergonomic, multi-use machine that I had opened up but a clunky, red, heavy, and squarish lard-ass of an all-in-one tool kit. Imagine my surprise when on Christmas morn I found this…this…Sheffield in my stocking. This was right around the time of the big Leatherman boom, when everybody and their grandma started sporting a Micra on their keychain, or a Wave on their belt. It was sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, about 10 years ago, that it occurred to me that I needed some sort of multi-purpose tool that I could take with me everywhere - so I asked my Dad for a Leatherman.
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