February 2008
An Amateur Expert with an Amazing Tool ... for Awesome
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, is worth 8 times its weight in gold, if not platinum.
As I mentioned before, I work at a knife shop, and use your tool daily, from setting up displays from scratch, to making other, less awesome, multitools look respectable (hey, we gotta sell what we can.) And as of 10 minutes ago, I used it in dental surgery on myself. It was an emergency situation, with no funds for help, and a jar of clove oil.
I've used this same Kick for a couple years, and feel not just naked, but dangerously vulnerable, without it at least in my pocket. I've used it to remove long slivers or cactus barbs quickly, assemble entire electronics, open bared doors in dangerous situations, to rewire the battery compartment of a car (also a .22 jacket found in the trunk and some duct tape) and so many other things I can't begin to thank you appropriately.
I am looking into becoming a carpenter soon, and will have to upgrade, at long last. Thank you again. And from my mother, a cancer survivor going through her second year of chemotherapy just now, thanks for all your smaller versions. She loses them like crazy, and I get her new ones just to see her light up. Thank you everyone involved, without you guys, the world would be a dreary, dark place.
Neil B.
Mesa, AZ
OK, you voyeur, you. Enough of reading other people's stories. It's time you told your own tale of gripping heroism or even just neat DIY'ism. We know there's a Shakespeare in you somewhere. Don't make us use the Steens to find it.