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I’ve owned the Super Tool since 1997. Whenever I travel or have an adventure my trusty tool comes along with me. This particular one has accompanied me ever since the previous model base jumped off Yosemite’s El Cap without a parachute. It’s versatile enough to slice cheese, cut bread with a serrated knife, poke holes in stuff with the awl, file my nails, adjust a derailleur, remove a fish hook, or open a can of tomatoes. The locking blades were a big improvement over the previous model; I no longer had to worry about a blade inadvertently closing on my fingers. I intend to keep using this tool until it is pried from my cold dead hands.
The Super Tool sports 19 appliances, including multiple knives, pliers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, openers, and crimpers.
-Barbara Howe
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The car slid down a ridge into a creek landing driver’s side down. My right arm had a compound fracture just below my shoulder, The water was rising, I could see it in the windshield, rising. With my right hand I reached my Leatherman tool; unsuccessfully tried before to reach the seat belt release. I succeeded in opening the tool and deploying the knife to successfully cut the seat belt, then I stood up and used the butt of the tool to break the passenger side window and scrambled out holding the tool in my mouth. I used the tool to cut a piece of wire and then wrapped it around my arm to stop bleeding. Otherwise I would have drowned or blead out. — Nevermind what AM-X says, “Leatherman: Never leave home without it!”
Love the “scrambled out….holding the tool in my mouth!
Brilliant.
I replaced a certain Swiss-made mulit-tool with a Leatherman in 2000 – and as musch as the Swiss precision was a savior to me, my Leatherman is the tool of choice for both personal use and for gifts going forward. It was May 2000 and I came upon a slightly discolored Leatherman that had gone missing (since recieving it a gift in 1998), under the seat of my old, beat-up truck seat. Through off-road adventures, snowstorms, flooding, tornadoes, and beating sun; this tool had traveled with me, un-noticed – but not un-thanked.
When it revealed itself on that sunny, blue-sky day in May, it was scuffed, scraped, and much worse for the wear – but one, gear-grinding CRUNCH-mark girdling the body of the tool left me awestruck; thinking that: unbeknownst to me, this tool was responsible for jamming the gears of some ill-intended machination set against me by some dark nemesis… that the Leatherman had saved my life on one of those days gone by, when I was obliviously treading the path of a heart-full life, making my path the safer by just being near.
I’ll tread that same path until my end comes – but not without the successor to that storied tool and all the capabilities and protections afforded an adventurer, model, officer, housewife, gentleman, scouts, insurance agent, or hapless and unaware intended victims like me.
Thanks Leatherman…
Too bad the Super Tool pictured is no longer in production. It was discontinued several years ago. Its newer replacements aren’t quite as nice.
I’ve had the Leatherman Supertool, Leatherman 200, and now a Core. The 200 was my favorite and was worn thru use in such a way that I could flip it open with one hand. I used that tool for over 5 years doing HVAC work and it never failed me until the needlenose tip broke off as I was doing something it wasn’t designed to do.
My saying: “If you can’t do it with a Leatherman, it is just not worth doing.”
I’ve had the Leatherman Wave since 1999/2000. I cannot say enough good things about this little wonder. It has so many functions and uses that it’s hard to imagine leaving home without it on my belt. As a computer technician I find use for it almost every day multiple times a day. The only criticism I could offer is that I’ve long since worn out the original leather holster that came with it. With the mileage its seen I can’t even complain about that!
The Wave is the way to go. Easy one handed blade opening. Much handier than the previous versions.
The wave has been my favorite for years, the latest one is the best Wave so far.
Agree with Jeff…I’ve had several communications with Leatherman about what I perceive as a significant drop in quality over the past 10 years (they disagreed with me, of course, basically saying “well, it’s not supposed to last forever”, which I agree with, but I also had come to expect a certain level of performance. The original SuperTool was a hoss…mine literally was used every day and finally completely wore out after a good 10 years. In the past 5 years, I’ve worn out 2 of them under probably less strenuous conditions. But…all that said…I’ll be strapping my Wave on this morning as I have for the past several years. I don’t leave home without them. The new models don’t excite me, though…I may end up looking to a different brand on my next replacement, I haven’t decided yet.
if you want a good replacement, Gerber makes a great tool.
I have used Leatherman Multi-tool as long as I can remember. I am never without one even when dressed for formal affairs. I feel absolutely naked without one. As an outdoorsman, it is as much as necessary as appropriate clothing is I agree that they aren’t the durable tool they used to be and customer service has also become less than helpful. I sent a tool in for repair and then had to send it back again because they didn’t fix the original problem. They had it for 3 months and have no idea what they did with it during that time expect maybe use it as a paperweight. I wrote to them complaining the original problem wasn’t fixed and got a nastygram telling me essentially “tough luck”. I have since quit carrying one and have switched to a different brand.
The Super Leatherman is the Best…I have tried Gerber, Winchester, etc. My favorite though is the Crunch….I don’t know how many times the Vise Grip Feature has got me out of tough situations when I am at work.
My F42 Stealth Fighter Jet was hit by a SA7 Grail and crashed deep inside enemy territory. My ejection seat did not work so I pried the canopy off and executed a climbing inverted spilt-r turn and cut away my seatbelt. Under canopy I realized I was going to land in the same village I had just got done bombing. As the villagers closed in I noticed a couple of them had bad teeth. Using crude hand gestures and clicking sounds I convinced them I could remove some of their rotted teeth- which I did over a matter of several weeks while befriending them. The sawtooth blade was all but worn down after cutting down local teak trees we used to build a bridge to a neighboring village- who soon thereafter attacked us in force, killing all but me. After several more weeks of dental work, I picked the lock on my leg chains and was able to escape and evade capture -until I saw a bright light in the distance and found myself being elevated into a starship of somekind. Aboard I met a hybrid squatch-alien with a sparkling unicorn horn on his head. Being a star wars fan and knowing a little wookie myself, I convinced him to try the leatherman on my ass probe instead of the rudementry drill shaped instrument they tried at first. Worked like a charm. I awoke later aboard a russian nuclear submarine that had a leak in the reactor. I was naked at the time and was covered in a green gel (presumably from the alien wormhole) and in broken english the Captain asked if he could borrow the leatherman still clutched in my hand. I told him “Neit” (I don’t like Communists, never have…) and we were forced to emergency breach to ventilate. They threw me overboard onto the frigid ice and I was all but a goner when I stumbled across a whale carcass- which I cut up and devoured with my leatherman. I was carving oceanic ship scenes into one of the whale bones when an eskimo approached me. Turns out this cat was a tribal chief and thought highly of me for being a great hunter of whales. We made quick talk over some blubber and I traded the newly carved bone for his 5th daughters hand in marriage. 9 months later I cut the cord, with my leatherman, to our first child “Nanuk” who is the light of my life. Someday, my leatherman will be hers and she will tell great stories too…
That is a phenomenal testimony, as well-composed, vividly rendered and explicit as Bill McCaslin’s effort above. I’m going to leave my old Leatherman, sheath and all on a mossy sun-dappled trail-side stump along the Pacific Crest Trail , rush out and buy a Gerber….
@ Jeff:>>>>Too bad the Super Tool pictured is no longer in production. It was discontinued several years ago. Its newer replacements aren’t quite as nice.>>>
Actually, the 300 Super Tool is superior in every way to the pictured model.
It has every tool pictured, MUCH more ergonomically friendly, and every tool LOCKS in place.
It is a tad bigger, but the heft enables it to do even more than its little brother.
Also, the wire-cutter blades are replaceable on the 300.
Gerber makes a great multi-tool.
Hey – also check out this review of a Gerber multitool:
http://www.gorp.com/gear-reviews/gerber-crucial-f-a-s-t-pocket-tool/
-GEARZILLA Editors
Two things, They still got’em at Menards. And, somebody said, ” If you can’t do it with a “Leatherman” it just ain’t worth do’in”. I’m say’in, if you can’t do it with a “Leathman”, ya just can’t do it”!! Thanksbye.
The only thing in the universe that may possibly have more uses is a roll of duct tape. This is a tool that should be issued to everyone just as a social security number is given to you.
I was hiking in the woods when all of a sudden i felt my chest tighten up and wouldn’t you just know it iw as having a heart attack. so i took out my trusty leatherman pulled out the knife blade and performed a quadrupple heart bypass on myself. its amazing what you can do with your trusty leatherman by your side
Gerber multi tool is sturdier and can be used for much heavier jobs. Also guaranteed for life. I broke many attachments on my first and after three years use (and abuse) they sent a replacement tool within two weeks, no questions asked. Thank you Gerber!