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Picked this up in a 2 pack with an aluminum handled lockback knife for 19.99 at Target. It was priced $14.99 alone, and the Leatherman Micra was $17.99. I got it for my dad to use with his planting.
It has black anodized handles 2 1/2" long and 3/8" thick, a 1 3/4" blade 1mm thick which could shave a little out of the pack, keyring, nail file, flat screwdriver/can opener, flat phillips (something I've never really cared for on small multitools), tweezers, small, not-quite-eyeglass-size, flat screwdriver. Held together with torx screws, the heads don't sit flush with the scales, but they didn't snag anything. It has a strong snap open/close, and decent spring to the scissors. 1" edge on the scissors, with a rather wide spread on the handles-3 3/4" between centers is where the spring keeps them at. The scissors pivot is just pinned, so you cannot disassemble them, not that I generally expect to be able to with small scissors. The nail file and blade are marked on respective handles, I guess since they look the same closed. The black ano was chipping on the handle corners early on, though I don't know where they were impacting on anything. The tools had soft edges, so you can tell they were stamped instead of machined out. The nail file definitely won't file down anything harder then your nails.
The knife has a 3 1/2" handle, 2 3/8" edge of 2.5mm stock (excuse the mixing of units), 6 1/8" oal. Good snap from the spring, solid lockup with no play vertically or horizontally. The anodizing was even and clean matte black, torx screws again not flush, but they are rounded pan heads. Allen head on the pivot, so have a couple drivers handy to work on it and the scales. Being a cheap Gerber, it has poor blade steel-very soft on sharpening stones, I needed to use very light pressure and fine abrasive to get to barely shaving without flopping over a burr. The blade was not completely centered in the handle but there was no rubbing.
The tools on the Shortcut could probably stand to be a bit thicker, but the handling of the scissors is decent. With a steel worth a darn for knives, the accompanying lockback would have been a really nice companion piece. These should at least be ahead of the two small stainless lockbacks that a friend of my dad got on ebay for about fifty cents each.
http://image.rakuten.co.jp/sirius/cabinet/gerber/img11500021.jpg
Picked this up in a 2 pack with an aluminum handled lockback knife for 19.99 at Target. It was priced $14.99 alone, and the Leatherman Micra was $17.99. I got it for my dad to use with his planting.
It has black anodized handles 2 1/2" long and 3/8" thick, a 1 3/4" blade 1mm thick which could shave a little out of the pack, keyring, nail file, flat screwdriver/can opener, flat phillips (something I've never really cared for on small multitools), tweezers, small, not-quite-eyeglass-size, flat screwdriver. Held together with torx screws, the heads don't sit flush with the scales, but they didn't snag anything. It has a strong snap open/close, and decent spring to the scissors. 1" edge on the scissors, with a rather wide spread on the handles-3 3/4" between centers is where the spring keeps them at. The scissors pivot is just pinned, so you cannot disassemble them, not that I generally expect to be able to with small scissors. The nail file and blade are marked on respective handles, I guess since they look the same closed. The black ano was chipping on the handle corners early on, though I don't know where they were impacting on anything. The tools had soft edges, so you can tell they were stamped instead of machined out. The nail file definitely won't file down anything harder then your nails.
The knife has a 3 1/2" handle, 2 3/8" edge of 2.5mm stock (excuse the mixing of units), 6 1/8" oal. Good snap from the spring, solid lockup with no play vertically or horizontally. The anodizing was even and clean matte black, torx screws again not flush, but they are rounded pan heads. Allen head on the pivot, so have a couple drivers handy to work on it and the scales. Being a cheap Gerber, it has poor blade steel-very soft on sharpening stones, I needed to use very light pressure and fine abrasive to get to barely shaving without flopping over a burr. The blade was not completely centered in the handle but there was no rubbing.
The tools on the Shortcut could probably stand to be a bit thicker, but the handling of the scissors is decent. With a steel worth a darn for knives, the accompanying lockback would have been a really nice companion piece. These should at least be ahead of the two small stainless lockbacks that a friend of my dad got on ebay for about fifty cents each.