True Tales of Tools

One day, driving alone in my SUV, one of my tires went flat. When I took out my jack stand I discovered I didn’t have the handle to raise the jack up with. I ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I've been a Buck knife user for a long time. My last 110 folding hunter I used for 15 years. While in K-Mart, purchasing a new Folding Hunter, I noticed a Leatherman Fuse on clearance ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I've owned and sailed wooden sailing boats for forty years now. Tradition requires the crew of an old boat to carry a marlin spike and a blunt ended sheath knife known as a riggers' knife. ... Read the Rest of This Story »

At the end of the workday, I started my truck and the starter stuck on, running along with the engine. When I turned the key off, the starter was still turning the engine over! Knowing ... Read the Rest of This Story »

An ex-girlfriend bought me my first Leatherman about 8 years ago and it has gone just about everywhere with me. It has proved its worth too many times to list here, but the most memorable ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I am now close to 55 yrs. old and I have known Squeaky since I was In High School, which was around the late 60's. Squeaky was operating his body shop at this time and ... Read the Rest of This Story »

In 2002, during an army cadet field training exercise, one of the officers commented that the steering wheel on her car was shaking severely when she arrived at the exercise site. Upon investigation, it was ... Read the Rest of This Story »

For many years I was involved in Practical Shooting as a Range Officer. This meant going to shooting ranges in the boondocks of Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa, Argentina, Venezuela and the US. I started out ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I work for a contractor, and was working on a local community center. Sometime during the renovations a pregnant cat made her way into the site and gave birth to six kittens. We quickly discovered ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I am a Prison Guard, and I'm also responsible for maintaining all the "hard" security at my facility. Problems with locks, keys, bars, doors, fences, etc., I'm the guy you call. With inmates conspiring everyday ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I have the Super Tool 200 and, yes, it's appropriately named. I don't have a story about one occasion the tool has saved the day. I am a construction contractor and it has saved many ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Well I have had my Super Tool now for 9 years and it has survived rock shows, medical emergencies and most of all save my life in my opinion. Well this is a simple story ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Hi, I am a 20 year old associate at a knife shop in the middle of the desert, and I would just like to inform you that even your least tricked out tool, the Kick, ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Right after Leatherman came out with the Juice line I bought a KF4, so maybe it was 6 years ago. After owning it half a year or so, I was driving down a winding and ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I have wanted one of these things for years but just never got around to buying one. I work on computers for a living and thought it might come in handy, so my brother finally ... Read the Rest of This Story »

In 1997 I bought my Wave. I used it many times just like everyone else. I work in the automotive industry as a salesman, and wore my Wave everyday. Many times my mechanics knew I ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I purchased an original Leatherman Super Tool in 1993 while serving in the U.S Army. This tool traveled on my many deployments around the world. In 1994 it traveled to Guantanamo Bay Cuba, while we ... Read the Rest of This Story »

As a unit armorer I have to work on weapons pretty frequently. I found myself on a range and part of a weapon broke, which wouldn’t have been bad except there was a round in ... Read the Rest of This Story »

As a real beachcomber I was collecting all sorts of things to decorate the sand built Dome of Rome, formed with my grandson Tom, on the Israeli Caesarea beach. Among the woods, synthetics in various ... Read the Rest of This Story »

A friend and I were heading out to our cattle lease to do some shooting. At the time I had a truck that was a little above stock. On the way out, I was playing ... Read the Rest of This Story »

We were on a holiday in the African bush when the following happened. It is interesting to note that we were an hours drive of rough 4X4 into the mountains (no cell phone reception) and ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Wife or Knife?
Just short and "sweet" note - when my wife asked if I would ever leave the house without my Leatherman, I advised I would leave her home before I left my ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I am a Locomotive Engineer for the Canadian National Railroad in Chicago and I have on more than one occasion had to make emergency repairs to a Locomotive when all else failed and no one ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Two years ago this January, my wife and I went to Addis Abba, Ethiopia to visit her family. Her eldest brother Gulelat, who works for Ethiopian Airlines, took the month off to be our personal ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Last weekend, I was at my sister’s house playing cards with her brother-in-law and his friends. While playing cards I heard a scream coming from the basement where Jim, my brother-in-law, keeps all of his ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I traveled with my brother to the country of Surinam and took my Leatherman Super Tool with me as I always do. I've owned this tool for over 20 years now. We went on ... Read the Rest of This Story »

To Whom It May Concern. Hello. The reason I am writing is to tell you why you should never leave home without your Leatherman. I am a fairly new Leatherman owner, but since the very ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Last Spring, while finishing some work at a trailer I have in the woods, my Juice fell into the leaves. It wasn't until I got home that I realized what had happened. When I finally ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I have been a heavy multi-tool user for about 10 years. Once I was of age, my obsession with multi's began. I have used Leatherman tools for the most part, but have experimented with other ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I have been using Leatherman since 1985. I would buy Leatherman in bulk to give to my accounts for Christmas presents. I had one left so I used it for many years.

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Two years ago I got a Leatherman Wave for Christmas. I loved it and used it often. One day that following March I was snowboarding and I badly dislocated and broke my arm. The ski ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Back sometime in the late 90’s my father-in-law and I where fishing on the Susquehanna River. As we were polling across a shallow pool, I looked down and saw what I thought were needle nose ... Read the Rest of This Story »

A recent graduate of law school, I found conservative wisdom in continuing to drive my 1982 VW Rabbit diesel to my first "real" job as a County prosecutor. The car had served me well for ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I work in the health care field and very often I need my Leatherman to repair some of the wheelchairs on campus. As it turned out my Leatherman helped me to help someone in the ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I am a certified Arborist. I have had several (at least 6 that I can remember) different brands of multi-tools. None have held up to my Blast. All the other brands broke in one way, ... Read the Rest of This Story »

On November 2, 2007 the State of Tabasco, in Mexico, suffered the worst floods in 50 years. It was a major tragedy that was known around the world. Villa Hermosa, the capital of the state, ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Obsessively self-controlled (the nice way to say anal) is one way in which I have been described. I like decency and order. I believe it makes life easier if we control that which we can. ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Just a note to say thank you for making such a great tool. I bought a Wave about four or five years ago with some Christmas money from my mother. From maintenance at our church ... Read the Rest of This Story »

Back in 1991 I was working for a small town hardware store. One day the boss and a coworker came up to me and said check this new tool I got in. It was the ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I worked in a factory where I drove a forklift and boxed and shipped products. I always needed a tool for pulling staples, cutting cardboard, tightening screws and bolts, fixing my air stapler and lots ... Read the Rest of This Story »

It was 9:30 at night as we were leaning into a left hand curve in Arkansas. As I twisted the throttle on the Goldwing we started losing speed quickly. The throttle cable had broken only ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I am a Dental Missionary. I traveled to Burundi last year for mission work amongst the TWA people. I met a woman with a hole in her cheek. I had not prepared to do any ... Read the Rest of This Story »

My son has a Leatherman Wave tool. I love him, but he is not the most "tool wise" guy. He kept telling me how great this tool was. Well, I have had several tools that ... Read the Rest of This Story »

I have been a Mission Dentist in Madagascar since February of 2007. My wife and I have been living with only the things we brought in our suitcases since that time, because we believed our ... Read the Rest of This Story »

The house prices in London are astronomical these days and I certainly can’t afford to buy just yet. So I am forced to rent ever decreasing shoeboxes to live in. From time to time I ... Read the Rest of This Story »

It was the end of my senior year and time to prepare for college, but not before one last missionary trip with my friends at CMC. After weeks/months of scavenging for money, and selling off ... Read the Rest of This Story »

When I was six years old, I got my first pocket-knife, a Victorinox. I really loved that tool until I got my first Leatherman for Christmas at the age of thirteen. Now, there is no ... Read the Rest of This Story »