"The Multi-Tool Continuum" by Nutnfancy

MT Continuum: A toolkit in your pocket. That's what the revolutionary original Leatherman Pocket Survival Tool (PST) by Tim Leatherman promised its users. In many ways it delivered just that. It was small, lightweight, and fairly capable. Today's MTs are even better and have improved on the innovative and original Leatherman concept. It is a good feeling being able to save the day with a multi-tool that you've brought along and an MT in your system gives you piece of mind. Cutting, driving, filing, opening, driliing, reaming, prying, grabbing and many other capabilities are yours if you have your MT with you. Current designs, like my reference medium-duty Leatherman Charge series, can replace the EDC blade with their quickly accessed and well-designed blade options as well. And yet, amazingly, few people carry the MT with high percentage. That's a shame because an MT can also offer key capabilities in emergency situations as well. But of course and as discussed here, the multi-tool or MT is still a compromise for the better capabilities of a full sized, purpose-built hand tools. Successive generations in the MT arms race have come closer to approximating the functionalities of these full size tools, all while maintaining the ever-important compact size, elegant design, and light weight that makes the MT useful and portable. Also Style should be a part of the functional design and but never its own pursuit if the MT is to remain true to its mission of functionality. "Design elegance" for me is the integration of compactness, versatility, ease of use, comfort, strength and durability into a compact and lighweight MT. Ingenius approaches to this goal in successive MT generations make MTs interesting, engaging, and fun to collect as well. But a standardized methodology for their comparision and evaluation should be given. Set forth in this video are Nutnfancys categorical breakdowns of MTs for review purposes: Ultralight (2 oz or less), Light (2 to 5 oz), Medium (5 to 10 oz), and Heavy Duty (10 or more oz) multi-tools. These categories are weight-based since standardized size comparisons are more difficult to achieve. The smallest tools will provide some key functionalities but as the user accepts more weight and size, capabilities will increase (remaining true to my concept of "Firepower vs Mobility" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50PFup95F8). And each user approaches the tool evaluation differently base on his or her needs related to their activities; some need the pliers more, some the knife, some the scissors, some the belt cutter, and some the bit drivers. As a reviewer I approach an MT review from my own perspective and experience but include these considerations while occasionally using in or adjacent category comparisons for interest. Current MTs options such as Leatherman, SwissTool, Gerber, and SOG serve prepared individuals every day with their already impressive capabilities. As long as the designers stay true to concepts of lightweight, compactness, and design elegance future MTs could even be better. /////////////////// Music: http://www.archive.org/details/Torley_Wong_-_The_Final_Selection).

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[Gizzer03]

On a different topic......I love leathermans...own a few; and planning on owning more :) but....what makes your videos interesting ...... is the absolute lack of "ehhh's.... "... awkward silences, stutters and "sorry, I meant..." ..

Just effective speach.....hardly anny errors or hickups, just a smooth presentation, and I don't think many people can match that... "off the top of their heads". so respect for that.

[TheVodoo3]

long but good vid man

[techkid43]

Thank you, you have restored my faith in myself. I thought I was weird carrying a multitool.

[HvinnyTheViking]

Thought at the beginning you were going to show us a tool-fannypack :) LOL JK

picked up the Skeletool the other day and of course had to see if it had been reviewed by TNP.

didn't see one :( had to look ...(gasp) elsewhere!!! on youtube

[daffydsteroidhead]

iv made a response video to this and ill putting on youtube prety soon.

hope you view it and i would like to haer you comments.

[daffydsteroidhead]

nice multi tools but my mt is a real crazy design its handle is a mi pry bar ive never herd of any multi tool with a handle capable of being used as a pry bare. I think its made by ruko knives and its got a fixed handle could you do a review of it?

[133j0hn]

@prometheus19799791

Yeah seriously. That'd be awesome if Leatherman or Victorinox had a custom "multi-tool builder".

It always seems like certain multi-tools are always missing that 1 tool that you need, and if you want that 1 tool that's missing, you have to buy a different multi-tool, which of course has a completely different set of tools that you don't necessarily need.

[MrDobans13]

Love the tower of MTs at the end. Especially when it almost falls over. :)

[MegaSexyTree]

My brother and I still carry the original leatherman as well as the wave for him and the supertool 300 for me

[DannoCrutch]

Excellent analysis.



[AirForceAce3571]

I used the bottle opener on my S2 juice to open brews with the bros last week. People laughed at me for having a MT on me, but they pretty quickly started coming up to me asking "hey can I borrow your leatherman to open my beer?" lol. feels good to be the prepared one!

[prometheus19799791]

it would be awesome when ordering an mt is if you could have it put together according to what you need, like ordering a cheeseburger with bacon and no onions.