![]() Due to the weak pocket clip, the knife dropped out of my pocket a couple of times, which somehow damaged the screwdriver bit retention mechanism.The pocket clip is too weak and doesn’t keep the knife in a pocket.The blade has stayed sharp and taken all the abuse I have thrown at it.Leatherman Skeletool CX Update – after eight month’s use The Good: I would have bought the $60 Leatherman, Skeletool, which is essentially the same, but I do not like the Skeletool’s serrated blade you cannot easily sharpen them, and that’s a deal breaker for me. Don’t get me wrong, I very much like and enjoy it, but I have other things I’d spend $80 on. Summary – See update belowĪt $80 this was a bit of an indulgence and not one I could really justify – so I put it on my birthday list. While preparing for our most recent backpacking trip we realized that this knife doesn’t have a can opener and had to take along an extra knife just for that purpose – we couldn’t find our old tin opener. We’ll see how it frees off with time and use. It is still a little tight at the moment.Not a lot, though a can opener (See below) would have been handy!.Retention clip for screwdriver bits so they cannot fall out.The blade can be deployed and put away single-handed.Lots of research got me to the Leatherman Skeletool CX. My Swiss Navy knife has all the tools you’d need (and more), but it’s getting old, has ‘a bit of history’ and the blade is just, well, meh! So I went looking for a lightweight multi-tool be my new Everyday Carry knife, as well as my backpacking and hiking knife. The steel used in the blade is a lot better too.Įarlier this year I was looking for a new backpacking / hiking knife because my (then) everyday carry knife, a Milwaukee Fastback, only had a blade, and I wanted more tools for the weight I was carrying. Unlike the Navy Knife, the Leatherman Skeletool CX’s blade is not serrated, which I much prefer. ![]() The only tools I miss from my Swiss Navy knife are the marlin spike, tweezers and toothpick. I’m glad the bottle opener holds itself on the cap, as I needed both hands to take the picture If only they would use a better steel for the knife blades they would be so much better.Leatherman Skeletool CX – Bottle Opener. SAK blades are much the same stuff as Opinel SS and don't hold their edge for long. where a locking blade just is not necessary. And the thin "carbone" steelblades are so much better than the stainless variants if you actually use one regularly for e.g whittling, or food prep. So small, so light, so capable, so inoffensive looking, so traditional, so lightweight, so inexpensive. And you would have good reason to be carrying it home in the locking format along with a dead deer or other such thing. a gralloch a deer with it, which it will do competently. Carry the ring with you and you can easily push it back on again without tools if you find the need to e.g. sub 93mm.īut a SAK is so well understood for EDC, no explanations needed, unlike carrying something more gucci that for example can be opened with only one hand, which is a no-no in some places.īest way to take off the ring is with circlip pliers but a twist with a fat screwdriver will open it up. Quite a bit longer than any UK legal SAK i.e. 2.9 ") so legal UK EDC if you have popped off the Virobloc locking ring. Click to expand.Opinel #6 is just under 3" (mine is 7.3 cm i.e.
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