This is the way to finally get a US electrician to use a Knipex tool.

Keeping my Knipex Cobra & Pliers wrench 😅

I love these and you are the only person I have seen who accurately went over the features of these pliars.

I've heard major issues with the hardness of the teeth on this and they strip out within the first few times you use it. This is why I only buy Knipex. You never have to worry about that with them.

I love knipex ❤❤❤

Knipex will always be the pioneer. This is a great tool.

When I ran a franchised tool truck route, new tools like this plier would be brought in for 'show & tell' to the customers as an opening to make a small impulse sale and generate the conversation towards selling more tools.

It's also a hammer when an electrician needs a hammer. Literally anything they have in their hands become hammers

Nice clip. Interesting to see Klein copy and slightly modify the designs for two different Knipex tools. Where are these made?

I've had a Pittsburgh adjustable wrench like that for years, best $10 I've spent on a tool. Amazingly strong for it's size and the pipe side was able to twist a 3/4 thick steel rod 😮 i thought it was slipping, nope! The solid rod was twisting 😊

That's....actually really cool

I could see it being good for someone who works out of a bag a lot: my concern with the jaw coming out like that is it's not going to be as rock solid as a knipex.

I like the rear button. Wish Knipex had of done that before i ordered all 8 of them..

I love how the button to unlock it is much lower on the handle.

As long as the work environment isn’t gritty dirty, hell yeah! I can see that slide channel gunking up fast.

I love my knipex version of this minus the removable jaw

I will happily keep both of my Knipex Cobra and Pliers Wrench.

I hope they make a 4 inch and 5 inch model💯

Reminds me of the RoboGrip pliers from Sears back in the 90s but without the automatic adjustment feature 🤔

I always love a good plier-ranch

Love the plier wrench from Knipex, wouldn’t mind a cheaper one for work specifically, but the 7” is the most useful and the knockoffs are all larger

Poor vice grips being neglected since the new guy came through the door

That is a pretty clever improvement to parallel jaw pliers 👍

Love my Klein tools, but I've got a lot tied up in my Knipex stuff. For a compact tool bag. This would be cool.

You had me at the adjustment button

Looks like something a office worker would buy. I love my klein linesmans and somw other stuff but knipex just has them beat with channel locks

So basically Klein went China mode with Knipex.

Nice idea but I’d rather buy 2 fixed version of this rather than the reversible jaw, just seems like it’d be more stable that way

Really awesome!

That's really cool but reminders me of what Ford is doing with the full-size bronco to the Jeep Wrangler copying but giving it just enough to say it is better. Klein was my first tool love but Knipex is my everyday carry and use.

Can’t wait to see a pipe ranch 🤔

I love these plyer wrenches but have serious concerns about that removable jaw

I just added a Knipex to my toolset, and love it. Now I need one of these as well. I work with items that are easily marred and that's always unacceptable in my field, so I avoid pliers as much as possible. Still, I see a bunch of problems this tool could solve quickly compared to the traditional options.

Love these pliers

Okay. So, I don’t have to use my $7 t shirt anymore when I don’t want to damage something? Sweet! This is revolutionary!

The slide groove and the leverage nub are both going to strip.

For all the "Klein copied".. look up Joseph Eifel's patent history. He was a Chicago based inventor that developed over 100 versions of this tool eventually founding the "American Plierench Corporation" in 1916. After APC dissolved there were many Japanese companies that modified the design in the 80's very similar to the current platform; but they were mostly cash-register, low quality, trivial tools. Knipex pushed the design and quality to the next level making a robust and refined design, but they certainly weren't the inventor's of the platform. With this new Klein design, Klein appears to be pushing this platform to yet another level as Knipex did fifteen years ago; same size, two functions. Forged, machined and assembled in the USA to boot.

DAMN! Wheres the mini, EDC size one. Thatll be a game changer. Knipex cobra sized.

If Klein has a 22" I'll happily buy THAT one, as Knipex decided they don't want full sets to all match sizes and it bugs me. My drawers need symmetry lol

finally, Klein copy Knipex designs! there is the sample!

I could have used these when I was in the work force. Would have saved some room in the tool pouch.

When he flipped that, why did my mind go straight to sigorney weaver in Alien 😂

That’s beautiful!

That's Bloody brilliant!

"mooom can we stop and get some knipex" "Son we have knipex at home" ^^^ the knipex at home 😂😂😂

5" version to fit in an edc kit please.

Knipex is the way. I stopped buying Klein when they went Chinese

Klein makes some of the finest tools out there, bar none!

the smallest knipex ,fits the nut of my argon reducer

Same thing basically as a craftsman robo grip. Nothing new but is a great tool to have I use mine all the time

This wrench strike me as a Klein take on the design of the vintage Craftsman Robogrip. Love Klein, love (vintage) Craftsman. Neither one has ever failed me.

That’s freakin genius… how much do they cost?

I got these today, and I can put that jaw back on. No, I’m not mentally challenged, and yes, I’ve been in construction for 20 years. Getting knipex cobras 🐍

Love Klein tools ❤

I see a lot of one jawed tools kicking around in the future

Klein trying to keep up with knipex, I like it!

great tool just surprisingly heavy

Some people will like this new model but real craftsman who appreciate a quality product will always lean toward Knipex.

Now I do like the design, definitely the thumb adjustor compared to the button on knipex, but knipex are way more durable. Put mine through hell as a ture factory machine technician, and they are still in amazing shape

I kinda like it , hope to see a smaller version soon . Of late , Klein has stepped up their fit and finish game !

Looks like the Diablo logo when it transforms

These would be good for alignments

I have this tool I will say I wish the top had some teeth. Tightening compression couplings isn’t as easy when the top of the jaw slips out.

I just use these for commercial plumbing on flush valves and parts 😅

That button is nice

Work Smarter NOT Harder!!! 🤠👍

I need this. 😂

Can't wait for the HF version to drop

I have both and I'm pretty sure the Klein's only got to 1 and 3/4 but the adjustment is way quicker in my opinion

I like the idea I'm just not so sure how long they're going to last

Man they were LATE to this party. Hard to copy a tool and not get sued I guess.

"Id lose that piece" -my helper

Great tool of it’s made well could be a great thing I am gonna definitely try it out

Brilliant !

A nice take on the Knipex

That is so cool.

Dam i want 3

Klein and channel lock are both finally making knipex designs to prove to those krauts that us made is still better. Good on em

I use use good quality Rothenburger pliers and i have never once thought i wish these things had a flat face. It would be faster to grab the right tool out of my bag than root around with these things

Mannnn I loved these things, I do hvac and was trying to break open a 3/4” union and they snapped on me

That is slick! 🐺🔧

I have a set of Erwin similar to this, but not where you can turn that part around. I love stuff like this!

Looks exactly like the knipex except the lever to unlock is much nicer. OTOH that half-open pipe wrench jaw looks it would just be a hassle, just adds bulk to the otherwise slim shape. The pointy end would scratch up any parts it hits. I use mine for tightening nuts on front panels so that's a dealbreaker for me.

Klein took two of the best pliers from Knipex and mixed them together😅. I will give it a try

I would like to see how many foot pounds of force It can put up with before it brakes.

use these and the knipex chrome version side by side everyday, the Kleins are really good, but the knipex just has a better grip. I use the kleins as the support and knipex for the twisting. But the Kleins teeth work damn good on iron pipe, almost as good as a Knipex Cobra

If this can grip a pipe and not slip easily, then i may want one of these for HVACR. It would be interesting to see what the test results of a 5" and 7¼" one of these would be.

I think Funk would approve

Absolutely love these things. Love them specially for smaller brass fittings. I used to use box wrenches but even the correct size will round those stupid things out

I am spoiled by Knipex. Tsunoda (King) in Japan is making very fine pliers too. Got a couple Klein's as well. I'm a Tool Junky, especially pliers and multi-bit screw drivers like a Piquick Dash or Ideal USA.

Knipex have been making them for the last 12 years 😊

Damn you know you’ve hit peak dad mode when you’re drooling over tools 😅

I need this in XXXL for truck front end alignment

I like the adjustment button a LOT. Not so sure about the jaws. I like the idea, but I typically like dedicated function tools. As do dads are added the main function tends to get diminished. Not that this wouldn’t find a place somewhere in my workflow, but for me it’s a niche that I am not sure needs filling.

Hammer!

To me the “multipurpose” tools just seem gimmicky and seems like a weak point in the tool. Buy a pair of separate Knipex Cobras and Knipex plier wrench and you won’t regret it

father's day coming up, boys !

It's the first time I see hex bolt with pointy screw.

Captain Kirk just yelled out, "Klein!!!!"

Looks like a prototype with too many wonky things going on. Like the idea and innovation. I'll wait for Gen2 if this is gen1