My review is 100% perfect in every way. Heavenly, perfect, wonderful and magnificent. Almost everyone who reads it hears angels singing. You have angels in Canada, don't you?
well the pictures were nice, but the words were less perfect.
The scissors work just fine.
Yours do. Mine didn't. But I didn't review your Wingman, did I? Send me your Wingman and I'll be happy to review it. Right after I stick it down the back of my pants. Then I'll hear angels singing.
I think you are doing it wrong... of the 10 or 15 I've given as gifts ($17 or less on sale at HD with military discount) I've had to help each and every one figure out that until you lock it in the scissors don't work. Once you open it (with the handy spring which substitutes for a nail nick) you have to push on the non lever part of the scissor until it positively clicks into place (at which point the lever part pops open.)
As far as wire cutters not overlapping..... I don't know of too many purpose built wire cutters that do!
Virtually all MTs have real cutters that overlap like scissors. This is not indictment of the Wingman. Its just a benign fact. The Wingman's don't. Thats just a fact too. No biggie.
Most wire cutters do not use bypass (scissor type) cutters, if you look at just about any electrician equipment you will find this is so. Bypass suffer issues with cutting hard and thicker items such as thicker wire, nails ect. and thinner flimsier things, such as stranded wire. In the first case you have the whole reason behind the replaceable cutters on the new surge, charge, rebar, supertool, ect. When you try something tougher and they break or bend you can spend the money to replace them. In the second case they will often fold the material over and not cut it, often getting stuck and requiring breaking it off in order to free it from the jaws because the handles don't have a lot of lock going back the way they fold up.
With the Anvil style cutters, as on the wingman and the sidekick, I cannot imagine the type of material that you would be able to damage that style of wire cutter. I know it would be possible, but honestly my guess is the pliers hinge would fail first. Every time i've used them for cutting wire they cut cleanly and do the job in some cases better than my other leathermans.
I agree wholeheartedly with you on the spring loaded pliers and I do wish every leatherman i own had them, however, I do think that the pliers would likely
not be as tight and would
have to have the anvil cutters for that reason. which you seem not to prefer.
Since 2012 I've carried a sidekick (I have a micra on my keychain) every day in my pocket, except while travelling.
When I have to fly I just buy a wingman at the closest HD to the airport when I land, then I return it before flying home.
I do have a number of other leathermans,
nearly all that I want, but there are still a few I currently covet and will own in the future.
and a few i
can't justify but want
the nicest parts about the sidekick and the wingman in addition to the springloaded pliers is the outside opening knife and other tool (saw or scissor) That feature seems to raise hopes for people as they expect that a premium feature like outside opening tools should put these in the class of the Wave, Surge, Charge. When you look at the price though. These are the in class of the Kick or Fuse, and compared to those tools you really are getting a more comfortable, feature laden tool.
I too like leatherman and taking the sidekick and wingman for what they are, lower end tools, they beat any comparably priced tool. nothing by gerber or victorinox in this price range has the abilities or features or quality level, it's not even close.
Here is most of my collection right now sans duplicates (except for the 2 original waves, have to show them off) and the rest are with the wife, an XE6 and a Surge or Father, original 1990 PST that went to war with me.
The Surge, and the Wave's each have a vehicle they are assigned to. The rest are used, loaned, carried as needed.
The best part? I haven't paid over $50 for any of them.