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I never carried a pry bar in the past. But now, with a three year old running around, I carry one as a dedicated sticker scraper. Times change, I suppose.

You absolutely need a pry bar. At least I do, see I carry a pry bar everywhere, I do this so when someone asks to borrow my knife, I give them the pry bar instead. I learn from my mistakes.

I put a pry on my keychain months ago and have already used it several times for tasks that would have likely snapped my knife. Pick one, even a fairly cheap one, and buy it! 😊

I appreciate your insights into the varying levels of tools and I respect your opinion as your insights come from direct experience. Keep up the excellent work.

I was doing EDC long before the phrase was coined. In all those years I never needed or missed a pry bar! However, I bought one because KZfaq said I needed one. I’ve never used it. I bought a smaller one and attached in to my key ring. I’ve actually used it. If I had to do it over I’d get the everratchet model simply to use the bit driver.

I’ve been carrying a Gerber Shard for years on my keychain, still on the original one I bought close to a decade ago, and I’ve never had any issues or felt the need to replace it with a different pry tool. It works just fine for my needs.

Just received my Lynch pry tool this week and even though they’re stupid expensive the lightweight nature and the form factor/ergonomics are stellar. I’m in love with it and could see it becoming my daily driver for opening boxes/bottles and ofc prying anything

Flathead on a SAK has been my go-to for years. The combination tool on the Compact, Bantam, and the like is even better if you add a 60 degree bevel to the inside, making it a better can opener, box opener, and gives it a sharp edge to pry and scrape. Cut the bevel into the side that doesn't have the nail nick for best results in my experience. I can post a picture for clarity if needed.

Handy tool to have even if you never use it, lol. The simpler the better, it's just an exquisitely simple primitive lever. Probably one of the first tools ever invented and still around, lol. Loove it, too cool

I still love my AG Russell steel thumbnail. It was originally designed to open the nail nicks on traditional knives. So it has a thin machined edge, and a little pad for comfort when using. It's just so damn useful. The edge is sharp enough for me to open a package, but it won't cut skin. It's more light duty than most of these, I'd say. But for my needs, it's perfect. I use it for scraping, for opening soda cans, opening taped boxes, etc.

I've had first NiteIze you mentioned for a little over a year and although the black coating has worn quite a bit, the measurement numbers are still very visible. Great little tool. 👍🍻

I have one of the Ti ones from Olight, I'm pretty happy with it. Haven't used it a ton but it ends up being the right tool for odd tasks I didn't think there was a right tool for. If nothing else it's a good bottle opener and a convenient way to clip my keys to my pocket.

This was a great video, I have been looking for some pry bar comparisons. Keep them coming!

Very well thought out video, surprisingly it didnt bored me but interest me even more, keep up the good work!

Answer - NO! )))

I’m waiting for the Lever Gear cut to come out. I love the addition of the package opener on it

WHat an amazing overview and super short reviews all in one video. Thanks 100x

Another thumbs up for the Shard I have used it for all sorts of things like removing ice from iced over stairs, the notch in the pry bar takes care of loose threads on clothing, flipping the handset rest out on cisco phones and adjusting the temp control in those Hotel mini fridges. Haven't broken one yet knock on wood.

I love my little county comm prybar. Use it all the time.

I completely agree with your opinion. I’ve actually used my knife to do minor prying and it damaged the tip. So now I carry a small pry bar and it has come in handy many times.

I was lucky enough to be able to pick up a Maverick custom 4” pry in anodized frag titanium, and I absolutely love it. I sharpened the edge so I could scrape with it more efficiently and cut tape with it.

I used my fulcrum just today to pop off a few rivets in my car and unclip a stiff connector. And a week or so ago I used it pry my desk a bit over the frame, so I could feed all of the cable management neatly through the gap. It's a great force multiplier.

I have an ~25cm long tire lever in my tool kit, just did some modifications at the ends. It's a pretty cheap alternative and tough as nails

Over a decade, I have streamlined my EDC. I carry ONE blade, a custom knife. 10” blade, that is my prybar, cutter & hammer. NOBODY EDC’s a large fixed blade. Well, you should! It is liberating! I have pried open doors MANY times with it as a first responder. I will never go back to folders & cute prybars. But my state I live in & my job & small town I live in “allows” me to do this.

I have a Nite Ize one very similar to yours, except I guess it's a newer model. It looks very similar, except it is silver in color, and has a Philips head screwdriver on the curved area at the top of the carabiner, opposite the prying end. I carried it around on my keys for months without using it. When I did eventually attempt to use the screwdriver, it immediately broke. One of the limbs of the cross head cracked off. I was attempting to adjust a wood screw in a kitchen cabinet hinge, so nothing too taxing. I think the Gerber Shard is probably forged rather than cast, but either way, none of that should matter too much if the heat treat is right. The Nite Ize one is evidently too hard, hence the fact that mine cracked instead of just deforming.

The full sized Vero fulcrum is by far my favorite and most used pry bar multi tool I have ever tried. I carry mine everyday and use it almost as often.

Another great video on another piece of the EDC puzzle that doesn't get a ton of coverage. Besides Best Damn EDC you're the only one I've personally seen really talk about this kind of stuff. Keep up the good content 👏🤜🤛👍😊

I have a countycomm widgy prybar that's served me quite well on the more affordable end of the scale. Used it to pull some tent stakes out of the ground. Just add fulcrum!

Really appreciate the insight and information

I have two of those nite ize and they are really great

If you are a mechanic like me it’s a must. I know you can use a screwdriver but you can bend and break them fairly easily. I use a Rogan pocket prybar in 52100 steel and it’s amazing. They also have bigger bars for hard use and they rock also. If you don’t need to pry things then don’t buy one but for separating things, getting things unstuck and scraping I love using a prybar

After watching your video I joined the pry bar guild and added a small nite ize to my keechain today.

Man every video I watch I’m more impressed by all the stuff you have, also what are those things bottom right?

I made my own pry bar from a broken cutting blade holder for turning mill. It's not fancy, but made from a very hard and strong industrial grade tool steel. I didn't want to spend a lot of money for something so simple and doubted the quality of steel of cheaper pry bar. Again, I already used that broken blade a few times to pry something and figured out that I can made a strong pry bar for my EDC from that thing.

I carry a Vaughn 222 5 1/2 " mini bar in my EDC bag. I have removed the paint on both ends on a belt sander for a better bite and it works as a scraper and door chock. I have never broken the tip off one of these and I abuse the one I have at work. The split tip is great for backing screws out. I find a bar with a right angle head is a lot more versatile. Multi tool pry bars I am not convinced unless you are not carrying anything else but a folder are worth the extra price and space. A quality plier multi-tool has inherently decent prying abilities with the flat tip and the pliers tip. I have used my Leatherman's as a pry tool. You have to know and understand the limits of the tool. I have carried the PST, Super Tool 300, Skeletool, and Surge. Just my 2 cents worth

Great Video! I have a large collection of pry-bar's, and I absolutely love them. Some steel, but mostly Titanium now, like the Opry, ArkEDC Pry, EOS Ti-Shark... love 'em. Pryma is best for a clip-on.

Love your content ❤️

A really good pry tool which also clips onto your belt loop or keys it the true utility fixr, great video btw, as always 👌

I can show you 3 pocket knives I own with broken tips because I didnt have a pry tool on me at the time. Im a bit surprised the Titanium Griffin pocket tool isnt featured in this video, that seems to be a staple for most youtube edcers. I personally use the Glow PryX Mini Titanium Multi by County Comm

I got a niteize doohickey. I mainly use it to pry open keyrings when I want to change my key setup. One time I did use it to scrape some glue off a wooden surface though.

Every multitool has a pry bar, we just need to be imaginative. Cheers mate.!

I got a couple of those mini-pry-bar thingies never used them except the NiteIze with the sharp corner and even then I usually grab my pocket knife if I need PRYING I grab a REAL PRI-BAR for everything else I have the Victorinox Deluxe Tinker forgot about the pocket wrench it lives in a pouch with a multi-tool that was retired nice thing about that is the quarter size end great for unscrewing battery compartments on Vero Fulcrum - can't afford that!!!

Dom great content educational. Would love to see the same for multi tools. Looking forward to nextool TSA approved

I finally bit the bullet and bought a proper EDC pry bar - Prometheus Design Werx Straight Forward Pry Bar. It arrived yesterday so I haven’t used it yet but it feels really comfortable in hand, nice weight, the 1/4 inch bit holder in the clip is great (now I can just carry a T8 for my knife pivot screw) The ferro rod striker is a nice touch. And it made from D2 tool steel and titanium.

I use the flat head thing in my wave plus. It has the bit driver anyway for a flat head bit if needed

I haven’t gotten into dedicated edc pry bars. My edc SAK has a pretty good pry bar in the flat head; has worked when I needed it. I do have a cheap set of small pry bars from Amazon for the garage (based on the snap ons). It does make me wonder if I wouldn’t benefit from one when I’m just carrying a pocket knife instead of one of my SAKs.

The red Vero Fulcrum is beautiful,

PockerWrench 2 is my favorite. Perfect capsule shape, no notches. Bit driver hole, and wrench hole that fits a ton of sizes. 1/8" thick, 1" wide, 4" long, and it has measurements on it. Disappears in a Leatherman pouch or Maxpedition pouch. I love it. Discontinued, but still pops up here and there. Clones exist, but you have to get lucky.

Great video! It looked like maybe a NiteIze DoohicKey Ratchet at the top of the frame for much of the video? Did you ever talk about that one? If so, I missed it.

I dont. The bottle opener on my sak is good enough. Also why I don't need a dedicated knife. The sak has that too. People carry too much crap, imo. That's the whole point of a multitool or sak.

I just have the little Nite Ize and a Leatherman Micra on my keys, they handle a lot of every days tasks well.

I’ve a Boker Minibar. Very similar to the Gondek persuader.

Just picked up one of the Nite Ize black ones 👍🏾

My keys hang on OTool 2 Ti carabiner and have OTool OPry pro in edc pouch. I use both often

I’ve had the same Gerber Shard on my keyring for 12 years, I’ve had no issues.

I totally get the need for a pry tool. I use them myself. What I really do not understand though is the interest in these toys. The titanium multi-toys that no one actually uses for real work and cost upward of $60 or $70. The cool factor on these just do not out weigh the exorbitant costs. You want a good pry tool, go get yourself a pack of cold chisels, the type used for metal working. For around $15, you can get a set of 3 at either Lowes or HD, and at HF a set of 12. Grind down one side to lengthen the flat and thin the tip. I also ground the other side down to further thin out the end. You end up with a piece of steel that was already made for hard work and will pry and lever out just about anything. Each one costs between $2 and $5 and they are perfect pocket size. Throw it in your EDC pouch or tool roll and your are all set.

Ive carried a gerber shard on my keys for years and never had a problem. I use it all the time.

I drilled a keyring hole in my CountyComm titanium pry bar. Best mod so far.

I use to repair phones and laptops so I always needed pry tools but could never find decent ones tried almost every type as I needed it to be super thin aswel and abit flexible for phones but bigger thick ones for laptops etc but then I purchased a feeler gauge for cars and tried it as pry bars and its absolutely amazing for what I need as there's so many different thicknesses I've always looked at these pry bars but never gotten round to it but I'm glad I found ur video of all the different ones I'm gonna buy one to try out for repairing bigger items

I didn't think I'd have a use for a pry bar but wanted to try one. I went with a Gerber Chonk because they're so cheap. I actually like them a lot and have used them on occasion. Don't feel the need to upgrade yet.

Yes one: Gerber Shard. Been awesome!

One of the problems with EDC keychain tools is that you can easily get an unwieldy ball of weight that quickly becomes less-than-optimal. My two most often used tools are first, one of the Swiss lines of pen knives that have a light (red), tweezers, toothpick, etc. Second, I then found the Ant Design multitool shown above. These two tools find use nearly daily. Given the Swiss pen knives are inexpensive (relatively), I use the blades for utility. While I routinely sharpen the blade in the Swiss tool, the Ant Design tool means that I always have a razor-sharp blade I can use in a wide variety of applications including First Responder. The red penlight helps me find things in my bag in the dark without disturbing others and the entire package is pretty lightweight.

Prybar is the one tool I never found use for. I’ve found my Wave can accomplish any task I would need one for.

I've got a Leatherman Brewzer which is pretty similar to the Nite Ize one from the start of the video; it's made out of some pretty tough steel and is not bad for ripping open boxes and opening paint cans and such, although the bottle opener takes a few tries since the tool is so thin. It's discontinued now though which apparently makes it worth quite the pretty penny. That little Ant Design Pathfinder is a pretty cool piece with the X-Acto blades, but I'm not sure I can justify getting one myself.

I use a pry bar much much more than I use a blade. I can't live without one anymore 😅

I carry a small Leatherman keychain pry tool and a Snap On double ended pry tool in my bag with my proper EDC, most of the time when I need to pry something it’s something lodged that needs to be pried out from either side. I find keychain EDC for small stuff and bag EDC for bigger jobs the best way to go.

My 111mm SAKs have a locking large screwdriver which can do some light prying so I stopped carrying a miniprybar. :)

I'm using split on a przy bar to takie off broken Woody screw

I’ve been digging the Gerber mullet. I don’t always need a prying tool but it works great for popping fire extinguishers boxes open when our psych patients kick them in lol keeps me from bringing any extra tools onto the unit

Awesome video... Thank you for putting this together! I've been considering adding a pry bar to my EDC but couldn't quite figure out my potential use case and therefore couldn't really decide on if I needed one or the type. Starting with the Nite Ize that you recommended. Seems like I can't go wrong there as a starter piece!

You have a Pocketwrench! I really thought I was the only guy who knew. I've been carrying mine for nearly thirty years

Sometimes i carry a cheap no-name for the odd occasion when i need to pry something but i don't want to force blade's tips or SAK's openers. If this prybar breaks no big loss happens. I think that a more "dedicated" tool must have another function, like an attachment to carry keys or utility blades, an not to be too expensive - which would be contradictory for what it is.

I have an Olight opry pro and while I’ll say some others look to be more ergonomic as bit drivers, have a bit better pry angles and have ratchets, this tool definitely fits more functionality into it than what you’ve shown here. Holds 2 bits without rubber bands, retaining bit driver, 6mm bit driver, whistle, bottle opener, oxygen tank wrench, and a lanyard hole. Priced well and lightweight titanium. I believe it should be considered along with the other options you’ve mentioned!

I have the same NiteIze pry keychain tool. It's perfect. I've tried a lot of little keychain tools, but it's the only one that has stuck and will never leave my key ring.

I love my Fulcrum. Havent found a replacement for it yet. If it has a bottleopener, that is an instant no-go (mostly on principle, lol), I have found that singular use tools tend to be better for me than do-all tools. I just dont need 7 screwdrivers and 8 bottleopeners on me at all times. I will use them when I want absolute minimal carry (fancy dress dinner, out on the lake in only shorts, etc), but my daily battle rattle is pretty "too much" and I am fine with carrying specialized tools in my EDC.

I work at a dealership and have to remove writing and license plates daily, I keep two tools on me. A Stanley mini scraper that holds a flat razor blade, I flip the blade inside out and keep it in my shirt pocket. The other tool is a True Utility FIXR, similar to the Nite Ize tool but has a dial that includes a phillips size 2. Between that, the flat blade on it, and the multiple hex socket cutouts (I do actually use those) it's the perfect set of tools for me. The FIXR even has a string cutter and file, I've used both from time to time. Are these tools perfect for everything? No, not really, not even close lol... but they serve me daily with the job I do, and that's what EDC is all about I think. I keep the FIXR on a belt loop, it came with a little leather snap case that covers everything but the clip so it doesn't rub on my pants which I like too.

Ive been getting customs made by Teale designs for like 3-4 years now and I love them. His customer service is great and the pricing is amazing for custom titanium tools if you know what you want he will work with you to make it happen! Pry tool was something I knew I wanted but the price point on some was so insanely high and some were just unobtanium(Lynch northwest all access anyone?)so I was hesitant at first to even purchase one. Now I hate the days when I end up not carrying it for some reason, it can do so much more than just pry at things, sometimes a slender piece of steel/titanium that you dont mind hitting with a hammer or hitting against something is just what you need.

I busted a knife 45 years ago trying to pry. I still remember the sound of that snap. So stupid. I have a Kershaw pry and the Shard. Haven't needed them but they are cheaper if I bust one. They also pass TSA security with my SAK Jetsetter. Thank you for the video. I have been thinking about buying a larger pry tool. More want than need.

I'd add a recommendation for the Amsler pry bar. I don't see them on his Etsy site now but maybe he'll do another run in the future. He makes them in CPM 3v and they're heat treated. Super tough.

The small niteize is almost useless (definitely for all all prying tasks) like any prybar that you can't rest the back of your palm on. In my experience the best pry tool is the flathead on any victorinox and especially on 111mm models. It's pretty wide, sturdy, it locks, you can use it in L-shape and it has rounded corners so it doesn't mar plastic when I'm opening different devices.

Great demonstration of pry bar tools ...but the real question is... how often do you actually need a pry on a day to day basis? Just about every multitool has a flathead that could do most of that. Is it for entry/breaching in an emergency?

When i walk in urbex expedition , i put a solid compact prybar on my backpack. It s a former mechanical tool for Michelin tire (Pax System).

I just saw an ad for one that looks almost exactly like that Gondek that looks like a nail puller. I can’t remember the name but it’s almost exactly the same so there’s an alternative

I use pry tools everyday on the job, my recommendation would be to look at the vehicle drive. Carry a pry tool that will accommodate the push ins you have on your vehicle for repairs in the field . You can modify a cheap Stanley pry bar fairly easy with minimal skills. Thanks for your time

I hoped this would answer: what do you pry guys use it for most often? Like I get it if you’re a mechanic or always doing handyman work at home - but do you often find you need to pry while out and about? I only pry around the house - when opening paint cans etc. Can’t recall having to do it outside my home

Thanks for the info, im still getting into carrying a pry, definitely gonna pick up a nite ize pry! Had a shard back in the day and i agree its garbage lol

I'm that guy. I've had a pry tool of some type taking up space in my EDC for 5 years and still have never used it. Seriously, I get more real-world use from the parcel hook on my SAK Huntsman, but I still carry the darn thing JIC.

I have a 5.11 prybar on my keychain but it comes with a kydex like sheath that I have on my keychain and it's great, I think it was only 13 bucks when I got it

The little notch can be used as a wire stripper.

The most handy ( pry tool? ) I have was a gift from my girlfriends dad. He was given a few free steel with brass look golf ball green divot repairerers from Glenfiddich whiskey at a golf charity event at Gleneagles. The two prongs have the perfect gap for removing tacks and small nails too.

Everyday thinking and finding something to pry, with my 100$ Pry tool

I would love to see that breaking gerber shard and a non breaking nite ize for the same usage.

I used to carry a pry tool on my keys, but afters a few years I wa.ted my keys to be very minimal. Now I have my key fob, 3 keys in an orbit key organizer and a pocket hook.

I've had several Gerber shards and the early ones were milled. It was a very handy little tool. Unfortunately, like you said, the newer ones are made of garbage.

Picked up a Nite Ize pry based on this video. Lost it literally the same day. I'll get another one: This is the biggest benefit of a less than $7 tool!

Great video!

Which pocket knife you show at the start of the video?

@maxlvledc what is your opinion of the Kizer Pocket Pry Axe? More of a gimmick or a capable edc pry tool?

I have the little Nite Ize tool, but until watching this video not think of it as a pry tool. I bought it for the tool set it listed on the package for my daughter but she didn't want it.