Best multi-tool for carrying in your pocket?

harronek said:
How do you not cut yourself holding it like that ?

Ken
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That's the bottle opening position, so you're lifting upwards making the blade edge go downwards in the opposite direction away from the palm, plus the middle and ring finger in this grip are inside the cutout area keeping the tool from moving against the palm.
A very well thought out design.
 
bld522 said:
If you don't need pliers, I'd suggest the Micra. I work in an office and I I use the Micra's scissors all the time. In fact, if push came to shove, I could get by with just a Micra and a pair of ordinary office shears for all my cutting needs.
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This is my solution too. Single blade folder in RFP and Micra in LFP.
 
When I'm off duty I keep the Skeletool clipped to my back right pocket so my front right pocket stays available for my clipped folder (lately it's a custom SAK). The pair work great like a portable tool box :o
 
I love Leatherman. I had a Style CS in that little front jeans pocket. Bought my girlfriend a Squirt PS4 for her handbag.

Today I replaced the Style CS with the Gerber Dime. I really wanted a Squirt PS4 as well, but I found out the Gerber has tweezers. The Dime has a greater range of useful pocket tools than the PS4, though everything on the Squirt feels much better made.

If you don't need tweezers, the PS4 is great and disappears into your pocket. Above that size, I personally think you'll want one with a clip that can either go on your belt or clip inside your pocket. Otherwise you feel it bounce around.

The Juice series give you perfect tools for urban carry (I love my Charge TTi the most, but find my friend's Juice XE6 is more useful for "normal" things) with some bulk. The Skeletool CX is bare bones and does it quite well. The bit driver and holding system means you essentially have 4 heads, plus a pair of pliers and a knife with the best bottle opener. Clips in to a pocket or belt quite well. The knife is a little stubby but very useful.

The Swiss Army knives are cool and will be a bit lighter without pliers, but I find the pliers to be indispensable.
 
The SOG pocket power plier is a good smaller multitool, and it has serious gripping power thanks to the gears on the plier head. Also fun to flip open and close like a balisong, very smooth and easy to open one handed.
 
I picked up a Skeletool for EDC pocket carry. However, I found that the lack of true needle nose to be a pain and I didn't care for the blade. So I went back to carrying my knife and either a Sidekick or MUT on my belt- depending on which one I feel like using that day.
 
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