What's your most used/favorite tool beside flashlights?

Thanks. Yes, these Enzo’s have fantastic steel, and understated like you say. No reason to spend huge money on some boutique knife. It’s hard to believe they are as inexpensive as they are. I mean, not chinese inexpensive, but I’d put this up against any $400 boutique knife of the same type

Opinel number 6. Super easy to sharpen and is fantastically cheap.

The “fixer” in my two-member household is actually my wife. She can fix almost everything. Just two days ago she put new glue to repair my walking shoes.

I use my big and very sharp scissors to unbox packages. And I have a tiny Swiss knife with scissors on my keychain, which I have used quite often while going out.

“What’s your most used/favorite tool beside flashlights?”
For most guys, that’s a very personal question. :open_mouth:

My Smartphone

I have a special relationship with my grinder. (this is not my grinder…photo borrowed from the googlers.)

That’s a really beautiful fixed blade, Robert! I wasn’t aware of this brand before. Will have to look it up. :slight_smile:

Difinately my saws, most days I’m behind a chainsaw.

I almost always carry an assisted-opener.

My very favorite is the...

Kershaw Payout 2075!

A simple whetstone, like this (picture borrowed from AZ).

EVERY piece of a light that I can make a bit flatter gets a spin.
Led-boards, shims, retaing rings, the ends of bodies/tubes, et cetera.

And of course my collection of (old) garden tools, almost every time I use them.
BTW, collection is just a politically correct word for pile or heap.

Leatherman Blast.

I have a Leatherman Blast, but I don't like it.

I much prefer my Leatherman Wave, though I don't use any of my multi-tools very often.

My favorite budget multi-tool is my Xiaomi 16-in-one.

It seems to be almost as good as my Leatherman Wave.

Then there's the Xiaomi 13-in-one.

It's also very nice, and even cheaper.

The multi-tool I use the most is my keychain Leatherman Squirt PS4.

It's really expensive for what it is, but nothing else comes close (except other Leatherman keychain multi-tools.)

super needle-nose pliers

great for untying jammed knots

getting toast out of toaster

many other things

EDC…S2 Baton

Leatherman Surge

Cold Steel Ultimate Hunter Orange

There are so many tools. Do knives count? Maybe my Knipex mini pliers?

Irwin GV6 6-inch groovelock pliers with the V-Jaw. I don’t EDC them but on the job yes all the time. And in the US the TSA has a list of hand tools that you can carry on to a flight and that includes pliers less than 7 inches. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030XMFJI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_MPW6F391YX8T9714A269?\_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

These are in a drawer in my kitchen so I don’t always have to run to the shop or garage when I need something bigger than leatherman. Great pliers.

Knife, toss up between my oldtimer 510t, benchmade OTF, or boker strike. The oldtimer is my food only knife. Boker is my utility blade. The benchmade is just a toy I like to use to make idiots nervous, something about an otf makes a karen back up out of my personal space at the grocery line.

I love my Leatherman Wave. I have two of them–an early USA original, and then a later one with slim profile bit sockets and accessory tool locks. I’ve got a SOG PowerLock multitool that has innovative compression pliers (3x the “squeeze power”), which are wonderful, but the rest of the tool isn’t quite as good as the Wave. Just amazing what Leatherman achieved. I wish the basic Wave had detachable cutter bits on the pliers as with one of the other models. Xiaomi is an interesting brand. Is the 13-in-one pretty much identical to the 16-in-one aside from 3 less features? Or does it feel like it’s made a little cheaper?