Frag Out! Magazine
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steel blade with the sheep's foot profile. As usual- ly, it has been designed to be opened with one hand (even with gloves) and has a liner lock. The second arm has a wood saw – again, a standard Leatherman tool. Although you will not be able to open it with one hand, it has a liner lock and badass sharp teeth. On the opposite side of the tool, there is a clip that helps to hold it in your pocket – one of the bolts fixing the jaws was used for this purpose. The name of the pro- ducer was stamped on the clip, while below the clip, on the arm – some geographic coordinates. Google Maps shows that those indicate the localization of the company's HQ. Sides of the arms have survival tools, such as a fire striker, a whistle and a file/sharpening stone. Those tools are mounted in plastic yellow sockets, which go nicely with the blackness of the grips. The file/sharpe- ner has a separate cap, while the fire striker and the whistle share the same cap. The file/sharpener is co- vered with diamond dust and is approx. 25 mm long – it is a miniature version of the file known from other Leatherman tools, but is has a flattened triangular pro- file, thanks to which, eventually, you may sharpen the serration of the blade. It is fixed to the body with a mu- shroom-shaped protruding spindle that cooperates with a particular hole in the grip, and is blocked with the locking device of the inner tools. The rod of the fire striker (that has about 5 mm in diameter) is mounted in the grip, the lower part of which is the whistle. The whole element is fixed on the arm of the tool and held inside thanks to a wire clamping ring. It can be acces- sed after opening the arms of the tool. The end of the arm with the fire striker has a massi- ve head that connects several tools. The head itself, if you hold the tool in a certain way, may be used as a primitive hammer. The head includes a carabiner to attach Signal to a backpack, equipment, or pants etc. and it may, at the same time, be used as a bottle ope- ner. Next to the carabiner, we will find a hexagonal hole with different diameter on both sides. It is a cap for regular and ¼" bits – without the cap, the holes may be used as an o-ring spanners (but it is quite inconve- nient). At the end of the head that cooperates with the second arm, the is a clasp that prevents the arms from accidental opening. It is made from a flat wire, that is why it is discreet and easy to use. The arm, to which the file/sharpener is attached, holds three tools for several functions. We will find there a cap for Leatherman bits (so flat ones, not hexagonal) with a two-side bit. A can opener is next to this (but may also be used as a bottle opener); it goes together with a wire stripper. The last tool is a punch/awl with a thread loop. After opening, all the tools are being blocked with a back lock. What is interesting: only one tool – the awl – may be used when the arms of the multitool are in the closed position. The remaining two tools make in impossible to close the handgrip. KNIVES & TOOLS