The Leatherman Wave is my every day carry. I've owned both the original version and the newer version. Love this tool. I use it several times a day at work and at home. I've tried other multi-tools (SOG, Gerber, and others) and have always gone back to Leatherman. They are the ones all others strive to be.

Pocketable edc is so big these days that the juice makes more sense now than it did before.

Been carrying a Leatherman since they came out, a WAVE since they came out. Before Leatherman, I carried a 4” crescent and the smallest ChannelLocks (and of course a pocket knife).

Cowabunga matey.! Great observation as always. Still progressing in field testing the Nextool. Have a great festive season mate.

I agree that would be very cool, I also wish Leatherman would re-release the LEAP. I gave one to my grandson, and it has really been one of his favorite gifts ever. he uses it several times a week, around the house, as well as when his parents take him on hikes, and over night camping. I have been carrying Leatherman tools since basic training in 1985. and would not want to leave my house with out two if them. if you count the LEAP I gave my grandson, I have everything you have on that table. My PST is actually an original, one of the two I bought in '85, and carried for the 10 years I was in the ARMY. I also do have and wear every day a tread. I did a video on my Leatherman collection a while back, it was one of my more viewed videos.

A green Leap is my EDC. It's my favorite multitool; great balance of size, weight, and functionality. I got each of my four kids a Leap for their 10th birthdays. The blades were installed when they hit around 12 to 13 years old. I picked up an extra one for myself when I saw they were being discontinued and I wanted a spare. The last 3 that I bought (one each for my younger two children and then my spare) off the last place (other than eBay) still selling them: the BSA scout store. All they had left were blue but I didn't care.

I owned the pulse back in the day, loved it. Now I have a wave + and thats my jam.

Solid video. I actually just got my leatherman bond today. Leatherman will always be king in my opinion. And yeah unfortunately some tools just don’t make the cut or last. Keep making your awesome content and thanks for the solid information.

I've never used the bottle opener. Never needed it. We need a customizable build for these tools. The 1st company to offer this is gonna be the winner.

Interesting perspective. Sometimes the unique is admired from afar. I thought the leap was an interesting concert but not enough to pull the trigger on one

Have my Tread almost daily. Converted to a watch band (had to give up some tools), but has proven useful when needed

You've got me hooked I have another tool in the post 📯

I think people are to harsh and critical at times. Leatherman probably gets hundreds of thousands of request each year. Can I get this, can you make that? It's just not feasible all at once. It takes a lot of time to develop a tool. That's why Leatherman has a wide variety of tools, they try to have something for everyone. Here's a paragraph from one of the letters Mr. Tim Leatherman wrote me concerning tool manufacture time frame." The date stamps in the handles of our tools are the month and year that we stamp the handles in our punch presses(the first step in the process of making the handles). It then takes several weeks before the parts work their way through the rest of the operations to finish the parts and than get assembled into tools with all the other parts needed for a complete tool. So yes, your handles (Super Tool 300) dated 0221 and 0321 were started somewhere between 1 and 59 days apart. Probably closer to 1 than 59". Hope this helps a little.

In the UK, leatehrman is quite common, more so than gerber etc, victorianox is probably the most common for SAK, incidentily a lot of the leathermans are illegal to carry as they have locking blades..unless you have reason, ie fishing, camping, working....

The best tool for rough work or construction camping etc is the surge. The vets ECT is the Rebar.

You have to respect a company that pays attention to its customer base. I’ve had Leatherman tools for over 30 years. No complaints. I did have send one unit back for a minor repair. The unit is still going. Pay attention to what Leatherman is doing. Not what they are not doing. Leatherman takes care of its products and customer base.

I love my Leatherman Juice C2! 👏

I'd love the estimate of how many blades or tools have snapped in the last 15 years of low grade steel and inconsistent heat treatment 🤔 Sadly 90% of leatherman tools don't ACTUALLY get used daily... example this video, where someone has a dozen models and probably opening boxes is "tough everyday use" same goes for most people that look for a need to use their emotional attachment multitool rather than NEED the functionality... I have stopped buying leathermans and currently have a few pounds/hundreds of dollars in broken leathermans, including a surge that snapped a blade within 3 weeks while CUTTING, not prying 😡 Until they offer something better than recycled 420hc potmetal with poorly QC'd heat treatment I'm done with them... My ancient leathermans have worn out plier heads but no broken tools and were put through years of work and hard use, occasionally even abuse, but they never SNAPPED... I now carry Chinese made improved wave style copies and couldn't be happier with those/more disappointed that I can't buy an American equivalent that 100% will have to be mailed in for some broken implement replacement (even a plier jaw!) at any possible moment 😒 Who cares "how great" the warranty is if you can no longer trust the products to last for a minimum period of time?! My advice? go buy two multiforce multitools which have a 1/4" bit driver and a REAL pocket clip, all without being covered in neodymium magnets for collecting every bit of metal dust/shaving within a mile! If you somehow get a bad one and it breaks like a leatherman you have a replacement the same day for less money than a single wave+! (Not to mention buying the stupid afterthought of a pocket clip, and the shipping and handling for the warranty) I wish Victorinox would come out with an improved wave clone now that the patent has expired! They use far better steel, and have better quality control in my experience, I just vastly prefer the Surge/Wave/Charge design/layout... Leatherman spending so many millions on advertising and sending out "review samples" while continually refusing to invest in better blade materials or even better quality 420HC is absolutely infuriating... But the Leatherman "fans" seem to often be the first to argue these points, all while having less time actually using the product than someone that owns a single 20 year old wave 🙄🤦‍♂️ Anyone else finally fed up with Leatherman following in the footsteps of Gerber, formerly a high quality, affordable knife brand with products that were nearly all produced in Oregon... before focusing on selling CCP made multitools, cheap quality knives, and bear grylls gift sets at Walmart? 😐 It's been over 20 years and the wave still doesn't have a decent pocket clip, but does now have worse quality steel... The Chinese clones addressed these issues on day one and are continuing to improve designs and materials as they get market feedback... This is why Leatherman will finish turning into Gerber... A mix of expensive US made items, decent CCP made items, and a ton of absolute CCP junk with their name stamped on it 🙄

I'm a HVAC contractor, also a farm and rancher. I'm a hard severe use kinda multitool guy! I own a leatherman Surge, Supertool 300, Wave and my current EDC the Leatherman Free P4. I've tried every major tool brand out there and it's hard to beat Leatherman for toughness and functionality. I don't baby 'em!!

Instead of having variations of the Juice....have one model, such as the Juice S2 at least. I'm sure that an updated model would sell.

Leatherman tools are some of the best I own 3 of them I have the Super tool 300 the Juice XE6 and the Free P4 Leatherman is the Vacheron Constantin of multi-tools

I just wish Leatherman would concentrate on build quality. Their products are great and practical and all that good stuff. ....... And then I pick up a Victorinox and just marvel at its sheer beauty.

my main tool is the juice s2 (this is my 2nd) with a niteize pocket clip on it

For years I have been suggesting that they make an aluminum handle version of some of their tools, because it would reduce the weight. I believe it would be plenty strong for most tasks. I have never heard a peep from them. I suspect they don’t bother because of their 25 year warranty and maybe anything less than steel doesn’t interest them because they don’t want to have to pay out failures via the warranty

Not much love for the Free P4. It is a good start, but, as I watched your video, it occurred to me that the Free P4 may be retired, due to low sales. There are many things I like about the Free P4, but it is not perfect. I own more multi-tools than I want to admit to, but have yet to find the perfect multi-tool for me. Dunno about anyone else's needs. Other than the Leap, I own at least 1 of every multi-tool in this video. I put each multi-tool through my own set of tests. No tool has passed every test, but the P4 did fairly well. The problem is that it is a premium cost tool with budget implements, literally from the budget multi-tools in their line-up. Basically, the P4 is a proof of concept. My fear is that Leatherman may see low sales on the P4, and decide to abandon all those ideas altogether, rather than refine the tool. People may not buy, due to magnets, cost, budget implements, or poor tool selection, but Leatherman may just see low sales. If Leatherman discontinues the odeas from the P4, we have only ourselves to blame. One thing I do not understand why Leatherman won't fix: the scissors. Leatherman scissors are sub-par. For all other implements, they have a good version somewhere in their line-up, but their scissors all have the same issues.

NGL The victorinox card multi-tool I never stop carrying since its purchase, and my leatherman micra never leaves my travel gear. (No TSA, I don’t fly with it(duh))

I love the free p4

As far as innovating things go i have to give it to Leatherman, but quality wise the Swisstools are superior. But the only thing Victorinox changed over 20 years with the big Swisstool is they made the pliers beefier and reversed them, made the file even better and the action of opening and closing is slightly different (better) in comparison to a 1998 Swisstool. I would love a powerpint sized tool from them, but the work very slowly, but then again their multitool had all outside tools from the beginning...

I got a mini on a lanyard with a little tiny maglite. However I never figured why the main tool in that is scissors. Much less useful than pliers. I got a classic leatherman and the pliers are not stiff at all. And it survives falling off your belt into the toilet. Just wash it off.

Leatherman drops the ball, Nextool picks it up and it goes rushing to the goal

I wouldn't be 100% sure that Leatherman now dominate the multitool market, especially since Victorinox released the MX variants of the Spirit and Swisstool. By all accounts their multitools are better than those of Leatherman, and as an owner of 10 Victorinox knife based multitools I can relate to that. However they only effectively have 6 plier based multitools out, at least here in the UK, compared to Leatherman's 40. Interesting that both companies started off making a specific type of multitool i.e. Victorinox made knife based multitools (SAKs) only until the 1990s and Leatherman didn't start making knife based multitools until the early 2000s (I think). I'd say objectively that Victorinox have excelled in the Leatherman's speciality, whereas the reverse isn't the case. I'd take a Victorinox Farmer X over a Leatherman Free T4 any day of the week. By the way I'm not hating on Leatherman either, I own 3 of their multitools, the Rebar, Bond & Squirt PS4 and overall I'm impressed, although the scissors spring on the Squirt has broken.

Casing cracked on my mini , misplaced it , my loss , I carried it for years.

I would hate to send money on a surge only for it to come with Cabellas advertising on the side....

Some tools sell well to niche markets when they first come out, but then that market segment gets saturated and sales drop off. And, if they are following the market they realize that as market for a new tool in the same market niche, now needs some different tools. For example my original Leatherman was great for the late 80s. It had enough tools to get me home in an emergency, and not so many as to weigh me down. But, think on screwdrivers: A Phillips No2 and a 5/16 flat blade did 90% of what I might need. But today I need Torx, and an Electrical Combintion driver would sure be handy. And if they made a tool with a needle nose, a wire stripper, and ecx/eye tips, they would sell like hotcakes for a bit, and then the market for them would saturate.

The answer to the question why a tool was retired is much the same as the answer to the question why is the WNBA paid less than the NBA.

Well.... I am not getting that 7 minutes of my life back. Hmmm....

So 3 million times after cutting that piece of wire and nothing going wrong we decided to put replacement wire cutters on our pliers,? Because they just wouldn't wear out

Is that why they put replacement cutters on their tool

I thought the Leap was a neat product and was going to purchase a couple for my children. Unfortunately I didn’t know they made them until they didn’t anymore. Seems like their advertising doesn’t reach me for many of their products and big box stores only carry a small portion of leatherman’s catalog.

I love my Surge but the quality control on it was Crap, because of this I have not bought a single Leatherman product in years, now its Spyderco knives I can not stop buying.

Did they end up unblocking your account?

After buying and getting the Juice I will say I was kinda disappointed with it. Like the Rev excited about getting it but disappointed with it. Put the Rev up for sale quickly. The Juice I guess I will see if grows on me. Surge & Signal I will say that I do like them just you add things them as you need it.

Love my juice

Leap shuld be made all steel and be an adult tool with a SuperSteel (replaceable) blade.

I can't understand why people think Victoronox is a superior to Leatherman. It's not even close in my opinion

Victorinox all day long.

I would try Leatherman tools, but for the price, my (Victorinox) Fieldmaster is already better.

LEAP = Take the blade off for kids yet leaves SAW

😀😀😀cool

It sounds like you had a conversation with Leatherman, or maybe a written communication, but either way it answers questions we all had, but already kind of arrived at the answer. 👍🏻 That’s just business… if it doesn’t sell or perform as expected, move on. 🤷🏻‍♂️

You don't have the best Leatherman for EDC on the table (Skeletool)

Im not the biggest fan of Victorinox

Not sure how credible that argument is if true victorinox a much bigger global manufacturer should have plenty quality control problems. Don't see them therefore Leatherman doesn't have that excuse

They are the grandfather of multi tools they can do what they want

I owned several leatherman (didn't buy any) and I really don't like the quality of the steel and have would never buy any of their products! I stick with Victorinox and Gerber! Imho leatherman just suck!

leatherman is hands down the worst most over priced completely against what there customers want and they just discontinue things with no for warning of any kind they are a total joke never give them any money

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