The thing about edc is if you’re really into it it’s going to change based off the expected tasks of the day. The knife I carry to a dinner date with the wife is a different knife than I carry to work out on the property. Unless you carry a bag and are prepared for the apocalypse you taylor your gear based off the expectations of the day. If you have something in your pocket and the only reason you can honestly say you’re carrying it is because it looked cool or some UA-cam personality said you had to have it I hate to break it to you but you probably got played and don’t need it. Every piece of gear can be justified in a certain scenario but only a few can be justified every day but that is up to you to decide.
I use leatherman wave or sak and outdoor edge sidewinder and spyderco serrated ambitious for work. The multi tool is in my bag. And for walking around I have several small folders I rotate. But my keys have flashlight olight ir3? Flytanium prybar and sog key knife ,glow rhino spark, and small peanut lighter with oring so gas doesn't escape and parachord lanyard. It's not to heavy and affordable. Comes in handy every now and then. So yeah depends. I have smaller house keys pretty much same setup just much smaller stuff.
Thank you for doing videos like this. We need more people talking about stuff that isn’t practical and that isn’t necessary. And people need to stop getting but hurt about people talking about this stuff. I just bought the exact same Rovyvon keychain and i love that thing, but im not going to sit here and let it effect my day. Im glad he is saying what he actually thinks about it! He is being real and we need more of that in this world. Keep up the good work!
I use a edc pry bar everyday on my work keys. Mostly it gets used for raking elevator tracks. It only takes a dime to shutdown a million dollar elevator 😉 Other uses is its great for opening cans of urethane and finish. Anywho, the little pry saves the tip of my expensive knife from getting damaged or broken 😞
I almost said NO to the prybar and then realized I have one on my key chain. It is super small. Great for soup cans and adult beverage tabs. Great video. I never leave home without a fixed blade and a small leatherman. The fixed blade never comes out. The leatherman for boxes, letters, etc.
Just used the gerber dime to remove a stuck yubi key from a usb-c port. For me the key is that it is so small I always have it when I need it, but it clearly doesn’t look like it would withstand a lot of force.
I only have one Leatherman, the Surge with an extender that takes regular bits and I added a small ratchet handle. I bought the original Fisher Space Pen when it first came out. NASA had a contest in a science magazine for entries for suggestions for a pen that could write in a vacuum of space and one kid from Germany suggested a pencil. Now I have a tactical zebra pen. It uses regular cartridges but each time you click it the mechanism inside pressurizes the cartridge. Instead of heroclips I keep meat hooks. It's two 4-in meat hooks with a swivel in between. That way I can hang them on anything or I can hammer the point into a tree or piece of wood to hang my stuff. And instead of hanging my backpacks on hooks, like you do, I simply use heavy duty coat hangers. I'm old school so I only use maglights. They haven't changed since they were invented and I can still use parts from a 25-year-old light on my new flashlight. Your knife is very similar to my Ruike P155 except for the blade shape. But the only knife I carry is the Cold Steel AD 10.
I agree with quite a bit of your conclusions! The Fisher Space pen I don't like but moreso because of the way it writes. I like gel pens, fountain pens, Japanese pens etc and the way they write. I also agree with you about the Leatherman bits. If you lose just one bit, you are hecking SOL. And speaking of ergonomics they are horrible on all those tools ironically, just janky the way they go on them. So yip would rather go with dedicated Wiha or Wera bits. I also agree with prybars. I find they're ironically unneeded. For people who need to use them a lot they ironically just go with a real prybar that's huge. And for those who have pristine $400 prybars they never use them. Both really proving you don't really need a fancy one.
I’ve said it before and I stand by it… EDC prybars make about as much sense as EDC sledgehammers. I tried one. I intentionally looked for reasons to use it and never found one opportunity to use it where another tool was better for the job. That was the end of me and EDC prybars forever. They’ve always seemed gimmicky to me. Had a Gerber Dime once as well and wasn’t impressed so I gave it away. Good stuff as always my friend👊🏻
I have a rovyvon pocket light with the reversable clip that is great for handsfree mechanical work or whatever and I love that light but the one your talking about is already too bulky for my use. I have tried to use those wedge type prybars but I use my matco straight prybar that doubles as a flathead screwdriver. I saw your video a while back where you talked about over praised EDC and I fully agree with you then and now with keeping stuff simple. For example I dont carry one of those useless metal cards with 4 hex holes in it I carry the small knipex waterpump pliers that can go up an inch and still get a fantastic grip. Another cool video.
I carry a small, lightweight, no name, inexpensive, stainless steel pry bar. I tend to carry a SAK of some stripe as my multi=tool and I don't like to pry things with it. By keeping the cheap pry with me, I am never worried about using it, abusing it, or losing it. And I always seem ti find scenarios where it comes in handy.
As a tradesmen the pocket prybar is something I don't even consider. Any task I would use it for is something I already have a dedicated tool for that would do a much better job.
Yes! Those small, two layer hanks, don’t work for me. I stay mostly with cheap, all cotton, bandanas. When I want some thing that folds a little smaller I like to carry a quality linen handkerchief.
Yep... I'm with you on the Dime. It is an almost but not quite. Scissors are a difficult item when it comes to EDC. I have settled on folding Fiskars. In lieu of a Space pen I like the Zebra F 301 compact. It is ergo friendly and just writes nice.
On pry bars, mine doesn't technically count since I'm in the trades. I just want to help leave more comments because I like your videos. I only recently started carrying a decently functional EDC pry bar. It was one of the Lyle or cheap ones from Amazon, has a strike cap at the end, but turns out I guess I'm one of those kind of people who need them. Now in my tool kit I've got four or five different pry bars of varying sicknesses and angles and lengths all under 12 in. And two prime type instruments in my pocket now. Something really thin and light just to wedge it between things. And something kind of more substantial because I used to have a county comm titanium screwdriver and use that when I needed it. By just taking a flat head and I ground that down to a sharp edge and that would get me into things. But I just stopped carrying that and put it in my tool kit
I just received some Dryki’s a few days ago and used one today for my sweaty face (99 degrees today) and I love them. Especially the price point for 5 of them ($14.99).
I like making my own hanks with whatever cotton fabric I can find on sale at walmart or thrift stores. For way less than the price of one of those hanks, i can make several dozen.
I completely agree about the super-nice handkerchiefs. I own a few and almost never use them. I'm just too precious with them. But my stack of cheap, basic, cotton handkerchiefs I use everyday all the time. I think handkerchiefs are one of those things that you have to be comfortable with using and abusing or it just doesn't serve a purpose.
A prybar alone I dont feel the need but the Gerber Prybrid is in my pocket daily. I am in the trades always use the razor blade and it's nice to have the prying capability whereas I am a firm believer in not using a screwdriver for prying.
Have to disagree with you on the fisher pen X but I get your points. What do you think of the oracle d1 driver as a small edc driver kit to actually carry as opposed to some of the bigger ones that should really live on desks or in larger pouches. I don't hate it I love it just curious what you think about them
I personally disagree about the prybar. I'm a rock climber so my nails are always super short to where I can't get my nails really under anything. I found myself using the built-in pry part of my keychain ring so much that I bought a dedicated prybar and utility blade combo tool (Rexford RUT) and it stays on me wherever I go now.
I agree with the Leatherman bits .. I really do dislike them. I took them out of my EDC last week. As for the hanks, I use the olight hank that I got as a free sign in gift. I use it almost every day and ended up buying a few more when they went on sale. It's bigger than those 25 dollar hanks and has both cotton and microfiber sides.
The only purpose I can see using a hank for is pretty ass pics. And any flashlight that looks like a garage door opener, I tend to stay away from. Pry bars are a joke. Get yourself a throw-away big flat screwdriver and you’re good. ☝🏻🧐
I'm a machinist and aside a flashlight, edc tools don't translate to my work space. A prybar would be an inconvenience compared to chisels, wedges, full-size flat pry bars and construction wrecking pry bars. Anything I'd do with scraping would be satisfied by a utility knife or a utility knife blade locked into a set of vice grip pliers
Everything he said about the gerber is fair, but also true of all Keychain multitool. Roxon has placed themselves firmly at the top of the multitool game, especially in the scissors
In regards to the prybar, I work security and I'm not allowed to carry knives. My edc prybar pulls heavy duty as a box cutter and a letter opener, a pry tool, and an edc defense tool in one.
I work in security and have never been checked for a knife. Or when using a knife, ever been questioned about it. All in front of clients, tenents, owners, or leos.
I find most of the prybars out there are overbuilt for EDC, and unnecessarily complicated. I might add a prybar to my keychain if it was only a key length, or bit longer, piece of titanium (to make it light enough that I might add it), with a hole at one end and a screwdriver tip at the other end about the width of my Farmer X screwdriver/ cap lifter, for those times I cannot carry the SAK, or just don't have it with me. Perhaps a smaller tip at the end with the hole. If the hole is 1/4 inch hex shaped, more functionality, although chances of me having a bit are remote. Still it could work for a small space when one did have more tools. The larger end should not be too sharp on the corners to avoid pocket or pouch damage, but the driver itself should not be too rounded either. It should not be luxury priced as then one might not be inclined to use it, say to scrape something, or clean an door track, etc.
no hanks. brown fast food napkins. they absorb everything including face oils. space pen insert goes in a zebra f701. also I swear that's a marathon watch. and finally pry's are not my thing. the leatherman has a flathead on it, that's usually good enough
I actually agree with everything said here. And while you were quite judicious by saying the Gerber Dime "just really doesn't work for you", I'll just come out and say it - it's garbage. It was poorly made, functioned terribly, and I don't understand how it has garnered such a following. Gerber should be embarrassed.
On the roe von E30 Pro, I'll have to disagree. But it just works for my hand, so I don't think you're wrong. I just think definitely different hands and maybe styles of use and carry. I still own the Nightcore EDC 27. And I want to like it so bad. But I've gone through two of them. They've both melted holes in my pants. And have just destroyed their own lenses. The wedge I owned. But that thing literally burnt a hole through its own lens. As in, straight up put a q-tip handle all the way through it. Well also melting my pants. Problem is, my main complaint for all of the flat carry flashlights barring the stiletto series from Surefire, because I haven't owned any of those. They all have plastic lenses, and I've had melting issues with them. And I just don't understand why they would have over 2,000 lumens and not glass lenses. At least with the E30 Pro, they've got that proximity sensor you can turn off if you want. I keep it on.
As the comment show, with respect to many of the products, everyone's needs and experiences vary. For many years I carried a Fisher Space pen in the pocket under my wallet, where it fit just fine. The advantage is that I already had a pen and it would always write. Recently I have carried some other pens there, hopefully ones that less than, equal to, or did not exceed the 0.7 ounces of the bullet space pen by too much. {4:30 in the video] I do two things to improve my writing experience with the Fisher Bullet Space Pen which may or many not be helpful. The thixotropic ink of the Fisher space pen shears off with rotation of the ball. This takes more pressure than many other refills. Thus, I substitute a fine point refill which allows me to press a bit harder and still have a reasonably fine line. I also try to clean the tip off, by rotating it on something I don't care about, before use as the pressure over time, or any lint, can result in a blob when one starts to write. Another advantage of the fine point refill (assuming Fisher does not try to cheat and include less ink) is that the fine point lays down less ink, so will write longer. Of course as Marine X alludes to, those in extreme environments appreciate the Fisher space pens more than those sitting at a desk.
Carry a Leatherman surge with a pair of Knipex Cobra XS and Leatherman bit kit as emergency tools when travelling (not by car), otherwise I agree - have a Leatherman copy with a full size bit driver on the outside of my work bag that I can use with other bits in the bag, in my toolbox etc as they are much better quality and more convenient to have more options.
The clip on the space pen is terrible. It only fits over the thinnest of fabric, 1/3 of the pen sticks up out of the pocket, and it’s a friction fit, so it can slip off. I ended up making a little sheath for it that can hang on a keychain.
Gerber dime is great for vacation. Especially for the price. Perfect grooming tool. Siccors for beard, finger nail file, tweezers and pliers. Bottle operner for beers But yeah the knife sucks
Berber Dime does suck, get a leatherman Micra or any S.A.K. That has good scissors. I will never buy ant MT that needs a modular bit kit. You can buy 24 cotton bandanas for $12, is that a coaster with a snake on it?😳 the Olight I3T 180, cheap enough IPX8 rated to have one in every bag . Ended up with a TOPS UTE 2 instead of the prybar thing.
all the Space Pens I have used the housing has split and it falls apart, also not a fan of pressurized link not a fan of Nitecore, their charger is junk!
Hoy en día en cualquier ciudad del mundo no se necesita cargar con tanta "basura", la cultura EDC ha sido desvirtuada por fabricantes que nos han hecho creer que necesitamos sus productos o artículos, pero sin lugar a dudas se trata de mero consumismo, muchas veces se trata de artículos poco funcionales, sumamente incómodos de usar, limitados o definitivamente innecesarios, además de costosos, incluso más costosos que las herramientas dedicadas o de uso profesional. Otro artículo que agregaría a tu lista sería la pinza ajustable Knipex "Cobra", especialmente el modelo de 100 mm ... ¿para qué demonios alguien carga una pinza que originalmente fue diseñada para su uso en fontanería? Yo tengo esta pinza para uso exclusivo en casa, y es la versión de mango aislado de 180 mm de largo (modelo específico 87 02 180). Mi versión EDC más sencilla y que va en la bolsa derecha del pantalón, consta de: Linterna-llavero TrustFire Mini X (luz blanca/ultra violeta) Tijeras plegables Fiskars Victorinox "Rally" (59 mm) Saludos. ✌😎
Don’t know if it’s my connection but if you get a lot of watch time drop around 9:50 after that commercial it keeps kicking me to a new video instead of finishing yours. Still 6 min left….. wtf UA-cam! lol
I absolutely despise the Leatherman juice. Lmao I will never get one again.. I have the LM juice cs4. I'm not saying it IS bad.. but for me it's horrible. 1. No spring for the pliers. When I have to use the pliers in a place that's not very big having to manually open it every turn is ass. 2. The fucker literally fell apart on me twice! There's these like, bars inside of it that holds the tools in place. 3 of them fell out. I said, I heard so much about LM warranty let me try it out. And they had me send it in, they sent it back fixed, sharpened the blade, figured we back in business. Not too long after that one of the bars fell out again. Smh 3. I was using the screw driver to unscrew a plastic light cap on my car and the damn screwdriver head got all twisted and bent out of shape. I spent $60 on this lil bitch if I remember correctly. It's now on living room nightstand duty. At least the one I got, it's not made hardy enough to stand up to my use. A $25? $30 Gerber multi tool that also came with a knife is my pure beat to shit multi tool and that thing has held up to everything. But the pliers on the Gerber suck, at least they're spring loaded, but still suck. So now I have a lil belt pouch where I carry a 4in knipex pliers (should've went with 5in but still better than any multi tool pliers I've used), a lil screwdriver bar set, and a swiss army knife with all the other shit I want from a multi tool. Then I carry a separate knife bc I use that mostly and can't one hand the swiss army. But yeah I'm team #fuckjuice
My EDC is a bic lighter ,streamline flashlight,Victorinox Huntman knife and Milwaukee box cutter.
Más que suficiente ! 😌👌
The thing about edc is if you’re really into it it’s going to change based off the expected tasks of the day. The knife I carry to a dinner date with the wife is a different knife than I carry to work out on the property. Unless you carry a bag and are prepared for the apocalypse you taylor your gear based off the expectations of the day. If you have something in your pocket and the only reason you can honestly say you’re carrying it is because it looked cool or some UA-cam personality said you had to have it I hate to break it to you but you probably got played and don’t need it. Every piece of gear can be justified in a certain scenario but only a few can be justified every day but that is up to you to decide.
I use leatherman wave or sak and outdoor edge sidewinder and spyderco serrated ambitious for work. The multi tool is in my bag. And for walking around I have several small folders I rotate. But my keys have flashlight olight ir3? Flytanium prybar and sog key knife ,glow rhino spark, and small peanut lighter with oring so gas doesn't escape and parachord lanyard. It's not to heavy and affordable. Comes in handy every now and then. So yeah depends. I have smaller house keys pretty much same setup just much smaller stuff.
Agreed. My knife or knives are selected based on what I'm wearing and what I'm doing that day.
Thank you for doing videos like this. We need more people talking about stuff that isn’t practical and that isn’t necessary. And people need to stop getting but hurt about people talking about this stuff. I just bought the exact same Rovyvon keychain and i love that thing, but im not going to sit here and let it effect my day. Im glad he is saying what he actually thinks about it! He is being real and we need more of that in this world. Keep up the good work!
I use a edc pry bar everyday on my work keys. Mostly it gets used for raking elevator tracks. It only takes a dime to shutdown a million dollar elevator 😉 Other uses is its great for opening cans of urethane and finish.
Anywho, the little pry saves the tip of my expensive knife from getting damaged or broken 😞
Always thought a pry bar was ridiculous. If I was in the trades like you said, a putty knife works better
I almost said NO to the prybar and then realized I have one on my key chain. It is super small. Great for soup cans and adult beverage tabs. Great video. I never leave home without a fixed blade and a small leatherman. The fixed blade never comes out. The leatherman for boxes, letters, etc.
To each his own. I LOVE the Gerber Dime.
I broke mine but it was very VERY hard used😂
Gerber dime is great
I agree with all of your points. For me personally, I used and discarded these items for things that just work better.
Just used the gerber dime to remove a stuck yubi key from a usb-c port. For me the key is that it is so small I always have it when I need it, but it clearly doesn’t look like it would withstand a lot of force.
I only have one Leatherman, the Surge with an extender that takes regular bits and I added a small ratchet handle. I bought the original Fisher Space Pen when it first came out. NASA had a contest in a science magazine for entries for suggestions for a pen that could write in a vacuum of space and one kid from Germany suggested a pencil. Now I have a tactical zebra pen. It uses regular cartridges but each time you click it the mechanism inside pressurizes the cartridge. Instead of heroclips I keep meat hooks. It's two 4-in meat hooks with a swivel in between. That way I can hang them on anything or I can hammer the point into a tree or piece of wood to hang my stuff. And instead of hanging my backpacks on hooks, like you do, I simply use heavy duty coat hangers. I'm old school so I only use maglights. They haven't changed since they were invented and I can still use parts from a 25-year-old light on my new flashlight. Your knife is very similar to my Ruike P155 except for the blade shape. But the only knife I carry is the Cold Steel AD 10.
Surge is KING. Love mine.
I agree with quite a bit of your conclusions! The Fisher Space pen I don't like but moreso because of the way it writes. I like gel pens, fountain pens, Japanese pens etc and the way they write. I also agree with you about the Leatherman bits. If you lose just one bit, you are hecking SOL. And speaking of ergonomics they are horrible on all those tools ironically, just janky the way they go on them. So yip would rather go with dedicated Wiha or Wera bits. I also agree with prybars. I find they're ironically unneeded. For people who need to use them a lot they ironically just go with a real prybar that's huge. And for those who have pristine $400 prybars they never use them. Both really proving you don't really need a fancy one.
I’ve said it before and I stand by it…
EDC prybars make about as much sense as EDC sledgehammers.
I tried one.
I intentionally looked for reasons to use it and never found one opportunity to use it where another tool was better for the job.
That was the end of me and EDC prybars forever.
They’ve always seemed gimmicky to me.
Had a Gerber Dime once as well and wasn’t impressed so I gave it away.
Good stuff as always my friend👊🏻
I have a Dime Travel attached to my travel backpack. It’s TSA approved and better than nothing on vacation.
I have a rovyvon pocket light with the reversable clip that is great for handsfree mechanical work or whatever and I love that light but the one your talking about is already too bulky for my use. I have tried to use those wedge type prybars but I use my matco straight prybar that doubles as a flathead screwdriver. I saw your video a while back where you talked about over praised EDC and I fully agree with you then and now with keeping stuff simple. For example I dont carry one of those useless metal cards with 4 hex holes in it I carry the small knipex waterpump pliers that can go up an inch and still get a fantastic grip. Another cool video.
So I’m a Full Time FF. I carry EVERYDAY a Vero fulcrum. It gets used often and also I use the bits too decent. But mostly I use the pry bar a lot.
Spot on with the Leatherman bits.
Wiha should make some to fit, beat them at their own cash grabbing game!
I carry a small, lightweight, no name, inexpensive, stainless steel pry bar. I tend to carry a SAK of some stripe as my multi=tool and I don't like to pry things with it. By keeping the cheap pry with me, I am never worried about using it, abusing it, or losing it. And I always seem ti find scenarios where it comes in handy.
As a tradesmen the pocket prybar is something I don't even consider. Any task I would use it for is something I already have a dedicated tool for that would do a much better job.
Yes! Those small, two layer hanks, don’t work for me. I stay mostly with cheap, all cotton, bandanas. When I want some thing that folds a little smaller I like to carry a quality linen handkerchief.
Yep... I'm with you on the Dime. It is an almost but not quite. Scissors are a difficult item when it comes to EDC. I have settled on folding Fiskars. In lieu of a Space pen I like the Zebra F 301 compact. It is ergo friendly and just writes nice.
On pry bars, mine doesn't technically count since I'm in the trades. I just want to help leave more comments because I like your videos.
I only recently started carrying a decently functional EDC pry bar. It was one of the Lyle or cheap ones from Amazon, has a strike cap at the end, but turns out I guess I'm one of those kind of people who need them. Now in my tool kit I've got four or five different pry bars of varying sicknesses and angles and lengths all under 12 in. And two prime type instruments in my pocket now. Something really thin and light just to wedge it between things. And something kind of more substantial because I used to have a county comm titanium screwdriver and use that when I needed it. By just taking a flat head and I ground that down to a sharp edge and that would get me into things. But I just stopped carrying that and put it in my tool kit
i have 4 Dimes...had all for over 10 years..great keychain use..
I just received some Dryki’s a few days ago and used one today for my sweaty face (99 degrees today) and I love them. Especially the price point for 5 of them ($14.99).
Can you do a knife video on the Kershaw DIY Shuffle?
The Nextool Mini Sailor is a really solid multi-tool around the size of the Gerber Dime.
As far as knives go, the Smith & Wesson Boarder Guard is a monster. Belt cutter, glass breaker, and the blade is scandi grind and half serated. ☝🏻🧐
I like making my own hanks with whatever cotton fabric I can find on sale at walmart or thrift stores. For way less than the price of one of those hanks, i can make several dozen.
I see where you are coming from. I like my Fisher space pen for when I go out, but not for heavy writing
I completely agree about the super-nice handkerchiefs. I own a few and almost never use them. I'm just too precious with them. But my stack of cheap, basic, cotton handkerchiefs I use everyday all the time. I think handkerchiefs are one of those things that you have to be comfortable with using and abusing or it just doesn't serve a purpose.
The point of the custom hanks is in the fun of collecting and comradery. Forrest Hanks is my favorite maker ✊
A prybar alone I dont feel the need but the Gerber Prybrid is in my pocket daily. I am in the trades always use the razor blade and it's nice to have the prying capability whereas I am a firm believer in not using a screwdriver for prying.
I love the Prybrid. If I’m wearing pants I have one with me. 😉
U got a favorite pressure washer? I might just get whatever the freight has to offer. Thanks X
Have to disagree with you on the fisher pen X but I get your points. What do you think of the oracle d1 driver as a small edc driver kit to actually carry as opposed to some of the bigger ones that should really live on desks or in larger pouches. I don't hate it I love it just curious what you think about them
I personally disagree about the prybar. I'm a rock climber so my nails are always super short to where I can't get my nails really under anything. I found myself using the built-in pry part of my keychain ring so much that I bought a dedicated prybar and utility blade combo tool (Rexford RUT) and it stays on me wherever I go now.
I agree with the Leatherman bits .. I really do dislike them. I took them out of my EDC last week. As for the hanks, I use the olight hank that I got as a free sign in gift. I use it almost every day and ended up buying a few more when they went on sale. It's bigger than those 25 dollar hanks and has both cotton and microfiber sides.
Niteize s-biners are 1/4 the price of the hero clip for the same or less weight but a noticeably higher weight bearing capacity
The only purpose I can see using a hank for is pretty ass pics. And any flashlight that looks like a garage door opener, I tend to stay away from. Pry bars are a joke. Get yourself a throw-away big flat screwdriver and you’re good. ☝🏻🧐
Manly answer
I'm a machinist and aside a flashlight, edc tools don't translate to my work space. A prybar would be an inconvenience compared to chisels, wedges, full-size flat pry bars and construction wrecking pry bars. Anything I'd do with scraping would be satisfied by a utility knife or a utility knife blade locked into a set of vice grip pliers
Everything he said about the gerber is fair, but also true of all Keychain multitool. Roxon has placed themselves firmly at the top of the multitool game, especially in the scissors
In regards to the prybar, I work security and I'm not allowed to carry knives. My edc prybar pulls heavy duty as a box cutter and a letter opener, a pry tool, and an edc defense tool in one.
I work in security and have never been checked for a knife. Or when using a knife, ever been questioned about it. All in front of clients, tenents, owners, or leos.
@@bigjohn17 It's in my company's policy. The only time you can is in an armed role.
I just carry a microfiber cloth in my kit. It’s cheap and does what I need it to do.
The caribeaner 4mm bit driver is good for folks with glasses to always have a bit if they needed to adjust their glasses out in the day to day
Prybar in I.T. is pretty common to need.
I find most of the prybars out there are overbuilt for EDC, and unnecessarily complicated. I might add a prybar to my keychain if it was only a key length, or bit longer, piece of titanium (to make it light enough that I might add it), with a hole at one end and a screwdriver tip at the other end about the width of my Farmer X screwdriver/ cap lifter, for those times I cannot carry the SAK, or just don't have it with me. Perhaps a smaller tip at the end with the hole. If the hole is 1/4 inch hex shaped, more functionality, although chances of me having a bit are remote. Still it could work for a small space when one did have more tools. The larger end should not be too sharp on the corners to avoid pocket or pouch damage, but the driver itself should not be too rounded either. It should not be luxury priced as then one might not be inclined to use it, say to scrape something, or clean an door track, etc.
Hello Marine X, have you seen the new Shinjuku sling from WaterField??
no hanks. brown fast food napkins. they absorb everything including face oils. space pen insert goes in a zebra f701. also I swear that's a marathon watch. and finally pry's are not my thing. the leatherman has a flathead on it, that's usually good enough
I actually agree with everything said here.
And while you were quite judicious by saying the Gerber Dime "just really doesn't work for you", I'll just come out and say it - it's garbage. It was poorly made, functioned terribly, and I don't understand how it has garnered such a following. Gerber should be embarrassed.
Thank you X!
I keep Gerber Dime for small tasks. Otherwise I agree
I have a Gerber Dime that has no blade. It is perfect for taking in a plane.
On the roe von E30 Pro, I'll have to disagree. But it just works for my hand, so I don't think you're wrong. I just think definitely different hands and maybe styles of use and carry.
I still own the Nightcore EDC 27. And I want to like it so bad. But I've gone through two of them. They've both melted holes in my pants. And have just destroyed their own lenses. The wedge I owned. But that thing literally burnt a hole through its own lens. As in, straight up put a q-tip handle all the way through it. Well also melting my pants. Problem is, my main complaint for all of the flat carry flashlights barring the stiletto series from Surefire, because I haven't owned any of those. They all have plastic lenses, and I've had melting issues with them. And I just don't understand why they would have over 2,000 lumens and not glass lenses. At least with the E30 Pro, they've got that proximity sensor you can turn off if you want. I keep it on.
Bought a Dime for my employee and the frame bent on it when he was using the pliers. Definitely not for anything outside of light use.
😂 lol so with you on the space pens, worst writing experience everrr!
As the comment show, with respect to many of the products, everyone's needs and experiences vary. For many years I carried a Fisher Space pen in the pocket under my wallet, where it fit just fine. The advantage is that I already had a pen and it would always write. Recently I have carried some other pens there, hopefully ones that less than, equal to, or did not exceed the 0.7 ounces of the bullet space pen by too much. {4:30 in the video]
I do two things to improve my writing experience with the Fisher Bullet Space Pen which may or many not be helpful. The thixotropic ink of the Fisher space pen shears off with rotation of the ball. This takes more pressure than many other refills. Thus, I substitute a fine point refill which allows me to press a bit harder and still have a reasonably fine line. I also try to clean the tip off, by rotating it on something I don't care about, before use as the pressure over time, or any lint, can result in a blob when one starts to write. Another advantage of the fine point refill (assuming Fisher does not try to cheat and include less ink) is that the fine point lays down less ink, so will write longer. Of course as Marine X alludes to, those in extreme environments appreciate the Fisher space pens more than those sitting at a desk.
That dime works
Carry a Leatherman surge with a pair of Knipex Cobra XS and Leatherman bit kit as emergency tools when travelling (not by car), otherwise I agree - have a Leatherman copy with a full size bit driver on the outside of my work bag that I can use with other bits in the bag, in my toolbox etc as they are much better quality and more convenient to have more options.
The clip on the space pen is terrible. It only fits over the thinnest of fabric, 1/3 of the pen sticks up out of the pocket, and it’s a friction fit, so it can slip off. I ended up making a little sheath for it that can hang on a keychain.
Yes, the Gerber Dime is bad. I go back to my SAK every time.
Gerber dime is great for vacation. Especially for the price. Perfect grooming tool. Siccors for beard, finger nail file, tweezers and pliers. Bottle operner for beers But yeah the knife sucks
Berber Dime does suck, get a leatherman Micra or any S.A.K. That has good scissors. I will never buy ant MT that needs a modular bit kit. You can buy 24 cotton bandanas for $12, is that a coaster with a snake on it?😳 the Olight I3T 180, cheap enough IPX8 rated to have one in every bag . Ended up with a TOPS UTE 2 instead of the prybar thing.
all the Space Pens I have used the housing has split and it falls apart, also not a fan of pressurized link
not a fan of Nitecore, their charger is junk!
Titanium just feels bad in my hands, so I try to avoid it in most things
Is the audio out of sync on this video or are my headphones bugging?
The first few minutes my timecode got out of sync so I cut in the products sooner than later
all good!
Milwaukee utility multi tool
Milwaukee fast back
Croc tool
Vehicle stem removal tool
Privacy lock key
Olight warrior 2
Boker dvilian tanto
Resqume
Pocket ifac/
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Hoy en día en cualquier ciudad del mundo no se necesita cargar con tanta "basura", la cultura EDC ha sido desvirtuada por fabricantes que nos han hecho creer que necesitamos sus productos o artículos, pero sin lugar a dudas se trata de mero consumismo, muchas veces se trata de artículos poco funcionales, sumamente incómodos de usar, limitados o definitivamente innecesarios, además de costosos, incluso más costosos que las herramientas dedicadas o de uso profesional.
Otro artículo que agregaría a tu lista sería la pinza ajustable Knipex "Cobra", especialmente el modelo de 100 mm ... ¿para qué demonios alguien carga una pinza que originalmente fue diseñada para su uso en fontanería?
Yo tengo esta pinza para uso exclusivo en casa, y es la versión de mango aislado de 180 mm de largo (modelo específico 87 02 180).
Mi versión EDC más sencilla y que va en la bolsa derecha del pantalón, consta de:
Linterna-llavero TrustFire Mini X (luz blanca/ultra violeta)
Tijeras plegables Fiskars
Victorinox "Rally" (59 mm)
Saludos. ✌😎
Mannnn my roxon KS2 scissors are sharper than a mfr
Don’t know if it’s my connection but if you get a lot of watch time drop around 9:50 after that commercial it keeps kicking me to a new video instead of finishing yours. Still 6 min left….. wtf UA-cam! lol
Might be because it’s still member’s only video. I have UA-cam premium and it just lets me watch all the way through
The gerber dime is absolute garbage! I had one fold in on itself while trying to twist a bolt. Will never buy one again.
These videos could really use timestamps
Naw. Not these. Maybe instructional videos but this is talking head. I’m sure UA-cam will auto generate some in a few days
I absolutely despise the Leatherman juice. Lmao
I will never get one again.. I have the LM juice cs4.
I'm not saying it IS bad.. but for me it's horrible.
1. No spring for the pliers.
When I have to use the pliers in a place that's not very big having to manually open it every turn is ass.
2. The fucker literally fell apart on me twice! There's these like, bars inside of it that holds the tools in place. 3 of them fell out. I said, I heard so much about LM warranty let me try it out. And they had me send it in, they sent it back fixed, sharpened the blade, figured we back in business. Not too long after that one of the bars fell out again. Smh
3. I was using the screw driver to unscrew a plastic light cap on my car and the damn screwdriver head got all twisted and bent out of shape.
I spent $60 on this lil bitch if I remember correctly. It's now on living room nightstand duty. At least the one I got, it's not made hardy enough to stand up to my use.
A $25? $30 Gerber multi tool that also came with a knife is my pure beat to shit multi tool and that thing has held up to everything.
But the pliers on the Gerber suck, at least they're spring loaded, but still suck.
So now I have a lil belt pouch where I carry a 4in knipex pliers (should've went with 5in but still better than any multi tool pliers I've used), a lil screwdriver bar set, and a swiss army knife with all the other shit I want from a multi tool. Then I carry a separate knife bc I use that mostly and can't one hand the swiss army.
But yeah I'm team #fuckjuice
4! ;)
mouth and sound not synced, fyi