I've carried a SOG Powerlock II for years, but it was getting old and
tired. This replaced it as my main belt tool.
It comes with two knife blades (straight and serrated), decent
scissors, a saw blade, two slot screwdrivers, a spike, a can-opener,
and a flat bit holder with a Phillips head, reversible to add another
slot driver. (The bits are thinner than standard ΒΌ" hex, though a set
of 21 flat bits is available from Leatherman, or one could grind down
one's own with a fair amount of effort.)
The saw blade can be swapped out for a file blade, supplied, and this
fitting is standard: it'll hold any other standard jigsaw blade.
The two main blades can be opened and closed one-handed. (No, one
can't readily rearrange them, so left-handers are out of luck.)
This is quite a large and heavy tool, at 335g and 11.5cm closed, but
it sits on a belt and fits my hand well; unlike the SOG its edges are
rounded, so one can exert more force without hurting oneself. Leverage
on the pliers is long enough to be useful. Most crucially it has
almost all the tools I want, in practical sizes. The one I miss is a
bottle opener, rather than the can opener for which I've never had a
use. I'm a sysadmin, not a camper.
(In fact this is why I started carrying a Leatherman: in the terribly
secure facilities of Telehouse, behind multiple layers of swipe-card
doors, any tools left unattended would vanish within minutes. Funny,
that.)
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