10-12-2012, 05:47 PM
As the customary best man's gift, LB sold me (for a penny) a Black Leatherman Skeletool.
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Back story: LB and I used to compete in skull/skeleton collecting. We both amassed large skeletal collections of all manners: statues, fobs, candleholders, even actual human skulls. We did this for years.
Now, I love Leatherman tools. I've used an early black model for years, and just this year, invested in a new Wave. Gerber's multitool is probably better designed, but I'm brand loyal. I haven't packed a knife in years, at least nothing beyond a keychain Leatherman, mostly because I have to go through a lot of security checks, or I'm just lazy now. The Skeletool is a clip knife, so I can keep it in my pocket. It is also designed with a flick-it style hole in the blade so you can open it one-handed. In fact, that's the main reason it breaks from the traditional Leatherman blade-in-plier-handle design, strictly for the one-handed blade opening function. I carry it now regularly in honor of dear LB, as a meditation of our long friendship. In fact, the morning after the wedding, I was stumbling around very drunk at the Venetian, fingering it in my pocket like Frodo and the Ring, just waiting to pull it on some other drunk tourist who might cross my path. Fortunately, that didn't happen and it remained just a meditation.
For the record, the Skeletool is the most fucked up Leatherman ever. The finger hole is at an awkward angle and given the blade shape and length in relation to the handle, it's easy to turn the blade on your thumb. I've already cut myself pretty badly on it. The blade is also at such an angle that it loosens when using the wire cutters, and it's very sharp, which just isn't what you want sticking out of the handle of wire cutters. And the skeleton design is stupid for a pocket clip knife because it fills up with lint. But still, I carry it as it reminds me of LB.
At the Here Comes the Boom screener, as CF will attest, they held all our cell phones and wanded us before entering the theater. I held my Skeletool in my hand and jedi-ed the security guards (These aren't the skeletools you're looking for) and got it in, much to our delight, because there was someone talking behind us so we neatly slit their throat, stole their cell phone ticket, and now sold their iPhone for beer money.
I love my Skeletool.
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Back story: LB and I used to compete in skull/skeleton collecting. We both amassed large skeletal collections of all manners: statues, fobs, candleholders, even actual human skulls. We did this for years.
Now, I love Leatherman tools. I've used an early black model for years, and just this year, invested in a new Wave. Gerber's multitool is probably better designed, but I'm brand loyal. I haven't packed a knife in years, at least nothing beyond a keychain Leatherman, mostly because I have to go through a lot of security checks, or I'm just lazy now. The Skeletool is a clip knife, so I can keep it in my pocket. It is also designed with a flick-it style hole in the blade so you can open it one-handed. In fact, that's the main reason it breaks from the traditional Leatherman blade-in-plier-handle design, strictly for the one-handed blade opening function. I carry it now regularly in honor of dear LB, as a meditation of our long friendship. In fact, the morning after the wedding, I was stumbling around very drunk at the Venetian, fingering it in my pocket like Frodo and the Ring, just waiting to pull it on some other drunk tourist who might cross my path. Fortunately, that didn't happen and it remained just a meditation.
For the record, the Skeletool is the most fucked up Leatherman ever. The finger hole is at an awkward angle and given the blade shape and length in relation to the handle, it's easy to turn the blade on your thumb. I've already cut myself pretty badly on it. The blade is also at such an angle that it loosens when using the wire cutters, and it's very sharp, which just isn't what you want sticking out of the handle of wire cutters. And the skeleton design is stupid for a pocket clip knife because it fills up with lint. But still, I carry it as it reminds me of LB.
At the Here Comes the Boom screener, as CF will attest, they held all our cell phones and wanded us before entering the theater. I held my Skeletool in my hand and jedi-ed the security guards (These aren't the skeletools you're looking for) and got it in, much to our delight, because there was someone talking behind us so we neatly slit their throat, stole their cell phone ticket, and now sold their iPhone for beer money.
I love my Skeletool.
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