#Leatherman multi tool full
Full Size: Charge+, Crunch, FREE P2, FREE P4, PST, Raptor, Rebar, Sidekick, Signal, Wave+, Wingman, Z-Rex.Heavy Duty: Super Tool 300, MUT, OHT, Surge.Leatherman Tool Group offers an extensive family of multitools categorized into the following product lines: Leatherman is not publicly traded so you can’t buy stock in the company and their website states they are unlikely to go public in the foreseeable future. Since its inception, Leatherman has always been a privately-owned company. They currently offers over 28 different models of multitool and sells folding knives using the Crater name. They introduced folding knives into the product line in 2005, added their first retail outlet in 2007, and in 2011 they acquired German light manufacturer LED Lenser. Not enough options/features! Leatherman Todayįrom the 30,000 PST sold in 1984, Leatherman now outputs up to 17,000 tools each week from their only manufacturing site in Portland.Sheet metal handles dig into hands when gripped tightly.Fortunately, the drawbacks of the PST created an entire industry that set out to solve the following challenges with consistent innovation: After catching on in the market, the PST took off and the rest is history. The Pocket Survival Tool (PST) was originally sold through mail order outlets because the established knife companies thought it was a tool and the tool companies thought it was a knife. And over the next decade, they would sell over one million PST multi-tools. In the first year of business, Tim and Steve hoped to sell 4,000 tools instead, they sold 30,000. Eight years in the making, the PST comprised of 13 different tools and folded up into a five ounce, four inch toolbox. The original Leatherman tool was called the PST, or known as the Pocket Survival Tool. Until he partnered with his college friend, Steve Berliner, and in the spring of 1983, they received their first order for 500 tools from Cabela’s and launched the first Leatherman tool. Neither were interested.įor another three and a half years, Tim faced one rejection letter after another.
Knife companies thought his invention was a tool, and tool companies thought it was a gadget. Unfortunately, the companies he approached didn’t bite. With the patent application and prototype in hand, he set off to sell his idea. Instead, it took the next three years to build the prototype he envisioned and file for a patent. When Tim started on the prototype for this new tool, he estimated it’d take him a month. When Tim came back to the states, he took his “multi-tool” idea, some sketches he made on the trip and got to work. But I kept wishing I had a pair of pliers!”. “I was carrying a scout knife and used it for everything from slicing bread to fixing the car. Tim realized the need for a pliers based, multi-purpose tool. While on a budget trip to Europe in 1975, Tim and his wife Chau constantly came across leaky hotel plumbing and road-side fixes for their cranky Fiat. Tim Leatherman (an Oregon native) received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Oregon State University. The Origin of Leatherman Why Yes, There IS a Mr.
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