I have a tiny Leatherman and use it all the time
people without pocket knives when they need to cut something ☞
I’m way more insufferable:
I actually don’t edc it anymore. I have an office job now, and half that giant belt clip doesn’t really fit in with the business- casual attire.
But I do keep them in my car, and happened to be using them today in time for those pictures because we’re moving offices this week and I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
… disassemble the corporate helicopter fleet, clean the salmon & beef steaks for the team’s BBQ lunch, tighten the bolts on the hatchway to the HVAC-access roof, recalibrate our GPS markers for the DST changeover… just the usual.
Yeah, when I carried it all the time I was fixing shit left and right.
What it’s really good for is all the little annoyances you notice day to day that aren’t worth a trip to the garage in the moment.
Door knob slightly loose in the back bedroom? Fixed next time you walk in. Drawer sticking? Take care of it now instead of forcing it and forgetting about it later. You don’t even realize how much of that stuff there is until you have the multitool handy at all times.
And the bit driver really is a game changer. You can get a ratcheting version now too.
Dude, where did you get that holster. I’ve been looking for one that would carry the bits and blades for my surge.
Edit: looks custom printed, nice
Bought it years ago on Etsy. Just looked in my email history, and it looks like it was from a user named HoldMyGear. Looks like they’re still active, and they have a version for the ratcheting bit driver too.
I have a 3d printer, but it doesn’t look like the stl is available anywhere. It’s printed really well, though. I don’t know what material it is, but it’s held up a lot better than standard PLA or PETG would.
Edit: looks like he has one for the Surge as well.
Let me introduce to you the open source and modular multitool
thanks!
Open source doesn’t properly describe the Roxon Flex multi tools. CAD files are available for making custom implements but the drawings for the frames they are used in are not available.
Regardless of this I think the Flex series seem like great tools and I am considering buying a Flex pliers tool. The thing holding me back is the price because in Europe and most of the world you can’t buy the frame only and implements are only available in sets.
I’m way more insufferable
Sanic username checks out
I’m also insufferable.
can you post this on !edc@sopuli.xyz ?
Good idea. I just posted it there.
One time I brought a watermelon to a picnic so that I could show off my fancy butterfly knife and I ended up cutting myself so badly that I had to wrap my hand in duct tape to stop the bleeding while someone else distracted the children. Worth it.
Something similar happened to me the first … And last … Time I used a mandoline.
What’s hilarious about this pic is the thing you’re supposed to be using to keep your hands safe is sitting off to the side
That’s true! That was the one included safety device I used right before cutting off my finger tip.
It’s an initiation rite, not a measurement of personal failure.
that’s what the cowboy hat is for
Tbf with many mandolins those things are utter garbage especially if you need to go fast, not waste 20% of your food, and aren’t into dulling the blades when you slam metal prongs into them which is 40% of why you never see professional chefs use the guard in videos (the other 60% being “I’m a super cool chef” bullshit which is why they also never wear the protective gloves either
I don’t see how anyone could look at this device and be like, “yeah, that seems safe.”
No one does. Pros will tell you to wear the special gloves and use the hand guards when working a mandoline or a meat slicer or the like.
Nor do I. It wasn’t for me.
However, I was unfamiliar with its operation. There was a guard, which I did use; but apparently it was supposed to interface with rails, which I didn’t know about or use. Also it’s commonly used with blade resistant gloves, which I didn’t even own at the time.
So yes, it’s a potentially dangerous device, but there are ways to make it less so.
Happened to my mother. She sliced her palm very badly, sibling had to take her to emergency care.
Sibling got me metal slicing gloves when they got me my mandolin lmfao
If I ain’t got a pocket knife on me, you need to tell me to go back in the house and put my pants on…
But I’m old and I grew up on a farm and everyone carried a pocket knife. It’s a tool just like any other tool. In fact, it’s human’s second oldest tool, right after the basic rock. I highly recommend getting one for yourself. A Victorinox Classic is a great EDC. You might not use the little 1"/25mm blade very often, but that nail file and scissors are fantastic to have. And the Classic comes in many handle colors and can hang on your keychain until needed. In fact I highly recommend any Victorinox tool. It might be the greatest urban survival tool ever invented. And Vic’s are always acceptable carry in nearly every social situation. People never seem threatened by them.
These days I don’t use my pocket knife as much as I used to. But I still carry one every day and it some how feels wrong if I don’t. And it’s there waiting and ready for when I do need it.
I made this for opening boxes.
Throw a qullion (i think thats the term anyway. Reading them fantasy books sometimes i forget that may have made up basic shit too) on that mofo and you could also use it to staby stab… boxes.
“everyday carry” people fantasy: the lights went out but we have to open that box and sign this form. We’re doomed!! Who can save us!?!
reality: I guess I will just do it later.
Reality is the box can be opened by hand, everyone in the room has a flashlight on their phone and the form can now be esigned on a phone.
Can confirm. I once had a letter opener made to look like a tiny katana, with a scabbard and everything. It was fucking awesome.
I’ve cleaned a moose with my pocket knife.
Are you Jordan Jonas?
Or unwrapping Xmas presents.
I think I’m beyond help at this point. When I’m not at work I EDC a pocket knife, a leatherman, and a Swiss Army knife. Probably overkill but I’ve never been in a situation where I thought “I wish I came less prepared to this”.
I’m usually like, ooh, I have a Swiss army knife in my pocket. And another on the keychain.
…Except when I’m home, the keys go to the tray and I switch to indoors pants, so when I actually need the damn things I usually need to take extra effort to go grab them anyway.
You can rip apart an Amazon box with your baby toe, those things are made to be easily ripped up. Tell that to my neighbours though, the shared recycling bin is always overflowing with uncut Amazon boxes
I keep a folding utility knife on me for just that reason
I miss doing iaido. I still have my practice sword though, that shit was expensive
