Battle of the Mini Multi-tools: Leatherman Squirt PS4 vs. Gerber Dime!! A great comparison!!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- #knife #knives #edc #tools #small #trade #work #skill #handy #quality
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Leatherman Squirt PS4: www.amazon.com...
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Gerber Dime: www.amazon.com...
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Gerber Dime Red: www.amazon.com...
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Gerber Dime Green: www.amazon.com...
Whoa! Double take at 0:57. I'm pretty sure the LM Squirt is made in Portland, Oregon, not China.
They are.
First vid I've watched of this guy and I'm already scratching my head lol
Where he got that any leatherman is made in China is beyond me.
Leatherman is definitely better quality, but I have a dime and have gotten a lot of use out of it. The package opener is such a great tool. I love using it to open hard plastic blister packaging. Goes through it like butter. I wish Leatherman would include one, then it would be a no brainer to get the squirt. But for half the price, I'll stick with my dime. Now for full size multitools, Leatherman is king.
same thoughts exactly. The screwdrivers and blades and files work for small stuff in a pinch but you're not going to use them for big jobs or any extended period of time. the package opener comes in handy pretty often and I also like the bottle opener without having to open anything. Put those two things on the leatherman and I would buy 2 haha
@@tfwoodcraft Lol...I hear you. I'm hoping some time in the near future, Leatherman will update the squirt and add the package opener. It would be perfect!
If Leatherman would put their package opener on some of their smaller tools I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
I liked my Squirt a lot when I first bought it just over a year ago - at a discount because I wasn't willing to pay the asking price of £45 here in the UK, that's about 60 US$. However bit by bit I've become a bit disenchanted. The knife blade isn't bad for opening packages and it's a bit larger and more robust than the Victorinox 58mm knives but the backspring tension is virtually non-existent, almost to the extent of it being floppy. Doesn't hinder me when using it but it's disappointing for a so-called premium product, at a premium price. Second, the bottle opener is a pain to use, it takes 3 or 4 attempts at a sharp angle, and I've stopped taking it to work because it was embarrassing trying to open a beer at the end of work, and them handing me their lighters to open it with as they could see me struggling. Third, the flat Phillips driver is made of something like butter because although I've used it less times than I have fingers on one hand, the sides of it have deformed. Finally the scissors: at first I thought they were 8/10 (compared to 10/10 for Victorinox) but now I'd rate them at most 4/10, the rivet in the centre means that the blades are so loose they are unable to snip threads or open soft plastic packaging, or cut fabric...The pliers/wire cutters and file are great though, I especially like that the file has a serrated edge and can actually be used to saw through plastic and aluminium, and, I suppose, wood in a pinch. But that's only 2 out of 6 tools which are good
A few months ago I took a punt on the Nextool Mini Flagship, it was a risk as I'd read a lot of reports of springs on scissors/pliers breaking straight out of the box or with little use, but it was only £15 including delivery. I haven't had any problems with the springs, perhaps Nextool fixed the issue. Anyway it scores
performancewise over the Squirt with those 4 tools with issues outlined above. If I am likely to need to cut or screw anything, or open a bottle, I take my Nextool. I only carry the Squirt now on days off where I'm less likely to have to use it, as a ''gentleman's carry'' mini multitool, as it does have a better form factor and is more compact.
One thing I do to sharpen or touch up little scissors like those is if you cut some tin foil it will sharpen them and get rid of that snag some.
I just read this and I think it's amazing, does this work for the blade too?
Great job with the comparison. I have both, and I agree with you on all points. For the Gerber, the package opener is excellent for opening that horrible sealed plastic packaging a lot of products come in. I wish more multi-tools included something like it.
The Leatherman warranty puts it over the top. If you are talking about value, you can’t beat what essentially is a lifetime repair/replacement warranty with no questions asked.
For my uses the Dime has been good. Between the Dime and an SAK Farmer there is pretty much all of the improvisational tools needed out in the woods in a fairly compact package. Will admit though, if I lost the Dime, would probably give the Leatherman a go next instead of getting another Dime.
I've been using the Squirt PS4 for 13 years. Use it constantly. I love it and it has always been in my pocket. Hasn't rusted but I have used it under ideal conditions. Note that the file on the PS4 has 3 edges: for fingernails, metal file (also good for sharp edges on hard plastic); and saw (not a real saw, but other UA-cam channels have shown that it does cut through certain woods and aluminum).
Pliers on the Leatherman are supported by the frame.
Pliers on the Dime are supported by a rod that can buckle if too much pressure is applied.
I had both of these at one time. Both are really great little tools. I found however for me I just didn't use them and passed them along. For me as a long time mutlitool carrier a full size Leatherman is a better option paired with a smaller sak. This is alot to do with my work in custom manufacturing which requires more full size tools. For the price either is well worth the money if they suit your needs. Leatherman uses 420 stainless for there knife blades FYI. This was a great comparison alot of very detailed info. Great video brotha 👍
Have both, but have found the Dime more useful. Especially the bottle opener/pry tool. It has let do small pry jobs that took enough force to ruin a knife or screwdriver blade. The Dime pliers have also been handy.
I liked it. You Should do another one comparing the Leatherman squirt to the Leatherman style CS. This was one of the things that got me into carrying a knife all the time.
Bought the Squirt with scissors. It was a little to small, gave it to my wife and bricked up a Juice. Carry it every day and love it.
To note, I’ve carried a squirt for 2 years. The two dimes I carried before it broke way, way too easily
I have the Dime, an zero complaints, I have several multitools an have the original Leatherman which is my favorite tool, due to being given to me bye my late father. I wouldn't sell it for a million bucks, I have used Gerbers warranty for a tool almost 22 years old, they were fantastic, I didn't need to send the old one ba ck an in one week from contacting them received a brand new one in the mail free of charge, with a new pouch an all. I have an will always love Gerber American made tools. An Leatherman is also a great company! Thank you Tim Leatherman for believing in your design, there is no telling how many countless hours you have saved people over the years!
Researched this and went with the squirt. Reviews on the dime and gerber multitools in general were that the pliers where too weak, chipping too easily.
So true i wish the squirt had a box opener and easier bottle opener. And it would be edc easy.
If you a chipping the pliers, you are abusing this little guy and need a full size multi tool. It's something for your pocket for when you need something immediately, not your truck tool box.
@@nunninkav same goes for the larger gerber tools most reviews say the same, either inferior materials or incorrectly hardened. Resulting in the jaws breaking too easily.
@@blackadder1966 if a metal is heat treated very hard, that leaves it prone to cracking.
i love lm squirt.its my primary multitool. trust me you don't carry a surge when going for a run or in you boxer going to the toilet in your house don't you. so this one is truly always with me all the time.for the tweezer, my only wish is if the lm squirt knife can be lock because it almost cut me when i try to cut hard material,it will flick close on you but not all the way close.
Very interesting comparison 👍 I have a Gerber Dime I like it but Leatherman Squirt offers more useful tools. So I am ready to spend money and have pleasure to use it. Thanks for sharing your review.
Good review. I will definitely go Leatherman. Regarding the tweasers, I would probably use the pliers if I got a sliver or something like that.
Dimes have a design flaw.
They will break if you squeeze the pliers too hard.
That's what happened to mine haha, I bought a Squirt to replace it
The leatherman is made in the USA fyi... great video I have both and carry the squirt in more relaxed around the house situations and the dime lives in the car as a backup if I forget a multitool... switch between the wave and skeletool as EDC multitool otherwise
I could have sworn the Leatherman Squirt is made in the USA.
I do own both and absolutely hate the Gerber Dime. I'll also say, not only is the knife super dull on the dime, my tweezers are completely useless. They're bent and one side is shorter than the other.
Man I knew I should of picked up the dime yesterday at the store, but I didn’t have a lot of money and skipped it and now every social media I go to, it’s rubbing it my face I didn’t get it ugh. It’s funny how the universe works. 🤷♂️ what do you do lol.
Just bought both of these! But i wish i could find something a little bigger, with a pocket clip! So i settled with the SOG powerpint
I have the Powerpint and I really really love it.
@@RamblinPhoenix I have to agree
I like the look of the Powerpint. Can't help feeling that LM are missing a gap in the market here i.e. medium sized pocket multitools, since they no longer make the pliers-based Juice range. Okay there is the Skeletool but it's a bit minimalist plus it has a locking blade which I can't EDC here (UK, our laws suck). I reckon if LM just made a larger Squirt, so same size as a Juice or medium SAK, with scaled up tools and backsprings, perhaps adding a saw and reamer and making the 2D into a 3D Phillips, as well as a pocketclip, they'd be on to a winner.
@@simonh6371 I can’t believe they don’t have a juice sized EDC anymore. Makes me so mad. PowerPint is it.
@@BrandonGavin_EDC Good choice. I'd get one except it too has a locking blade. My mid-sized multitool is the SOG Micro toolclip which is okay - pliers and blade are fine but the file is pretty useless and the Phillips is a bit awkward to use - which I pair with a SAK. My larger ''UK legal'' multitool is the Gerber MP600 bladeless, again paired with a SAK and/or slipjoint folder e.g. Bokerplus Atlas.
The mini mutitools are really nice. I really liked them had 2 different leatherman minis and as I was using them a couple of different family members loved them so I gave them away. Will replace them sometime just not sure when. Liked your battle. Talking scissors no one beats Victorinox. Of you want to see what an every tool multitool looks like the knife center for this week's new knives has the Victorinox XL XL. It is very expensive at 325 but it has every tool Victorinox has ever had. It is wild looking.
I literally got myself a squirt 🤣. I gave my dad a dime and wanted a small multitool for myself for work.
Just recently got a used squirt (picked it over the dime) and really like it. Btw I’m pretty sure they’re made in Oregon.
says made in USA on Amazon but who knows.
They are made somewhere in the USA. Not sure how I screwed that up, but you are correct. My bad.
@@Nordraw but who knows???
They have been made on Portland Oregon since the very first one.
Leatherman PST is literally the first multitool ever created lol.
The Leatherman ES squirt is my favorite as it has the wire strippers...Also congrats on getting hitched! May your marriage be blessed!
Thank you very much, Johnny! 👊🏼
Probably the only faceoff where the Gerber product beats the Leatherman. after a while my ranking for keychain size would be 1- Leatherman Micra 2- Gerber Dime 3- Leatherman Squirt. At some point it comes down to personal preference, but the aluminum squirt should not be carrying a Leatherman logo (cute but terrible)
For 52€ Leatherman Squirt must bee beter, tools are so soft that some smole screws are tering the tool on my Leatherman And i pay litle players 52€, when you exe. Buy Victorinox every thing is snappy and wery well made I didn't feel that way with Leatherman. That tool worth maybe 25€ but you can buy for that price Victorinox Alu. With smole tool but coality is not in the same space . Its yunk with good litle players.
Thanks for doing the comparison!
I agree on almost all points and just might have to buy a squirt now. I carry the dime almost every day. Its so small and comes in handy all the damn time. If I can improve it even a little bit in the same size/form factor I'll probably love it even more.
The dime goes on sale for ~$15 in some ugly colors pretty often so if you don't mind what it looks like you can score one for dirt cheap.
That package opener works for blister packs like a dream too, but I don't have to open them too often.
I don't like too much crap on my key ring and I have a Jeep Gladiator so the fob is already obnoxiously big, but if you have a bag you carry to work you could stash one of these little tools in there and barely take up any space but have a bunch of handy tools at your disposal.
ok, rant over - as you can tell I'm a big fan of the mini-multitool haha
Spring mechanism of the gerber dime's scissors is more robust than the squirt's. I currently bought a dime and previously owned a squirt. The spring on the squirt's scissors snapped for no good reason! Fit n finish, leatherman wins but quirkiness and functionality i think the dime takes the cake.
I liked the idea of pliers on a multitool this size, but I haven't found them useful. The tasks I've needed pliers for have always required heavier-duty pliers than those on my Leatherman Squirt PS4. I could see the Leatherman Squirt as a great Tackle Box tool, but for a pocketable pliers multitool, I switched to the Skeletool.
I AM PURE MUSCLE in the legs.
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Good review lad... cheers
Cheers, friend!
Would you be able to make a video on how to sharpen the retail package opener and its standard blade on the Gerber Dime as I don't want to ruin it, and I'm unable to find out how to sharpen it, but a simple way that can be done at home without needed specialist tools?
Should be simple to do. Not sure if I can work one in, but will try! 👍🏼
@@WaynesSharpWorld thanks that would be much appreciated
Height and width on both anyone please. I have a nice small leather sheath but not sure if any would fit.
The Micra is my favorite followed by the Victorinox Pioneer X.
At about 1:00 you said the squirt was made in China. This is false. As far as I’m aware lm’s only factory is here in the us and the Squirt PS4 is absolutely made here in the USA, in Portland Oregon.
You are correct. I later clarified in a post in my UA-cam community feed. My bad.
Uh, leatherman Squirt is made in the USA.
Squint carrys great on a keyring. I gladly pay for the Leatherman name :)
Same 👌🏼
I'll pay for the Leatherman name on a Micra but not on this aluminum POS...
Now where does the top tool rank against the swiss army knives?
That’s a great question, but a tough one. I like the smaller size of the multi-tools and to be honest, I think I’d take either one of the multi-tools over a SAK.
@@WaynesSharpWorld I think either one (preferably Squirt PS4) pairs well with an SAK, or even a dedicated folder, or even all 3. My EDC varies depending upon whether I'm carrying a bag with a larger multitool for my bike. But without a bag, I carry the PS4 in a coin pocket, paired up with a Vic Hiker or Farmer in another pocket. Gives me a complete toolset: blades, pliers, scissors, saw, file, reamer, openers and 4/5 different size screwdrivers. But in compact format which doesn't bulge in the pocket, which for example a Vic Handyman or Swisschamp would. Sometimes I add a dedicated (slipjoint) folder like the Bokerplus Atlas or Douk Douk, just for fun.
Have you ever tried Victorinox scissors?
I have. They used to suck. But the new ones are pretty nice!
Theyr'e generally held to be THE best multitool scissors going. Even the 58mm tiny ones are very capable. They are the same size as those on the LM Squirt but a tiny bit more precise.
Yes, they were horrible.
I have the Dime in my "fag bag" carhartt edc waist pack. The lil drivers work fine, the bottle opener is GREAT! The scissors are sharp and will cut threads and tags, one thing I love and used to lose all the time on my swiss army knives are the little tweezers.
It’s a bit hard to tell the size of them
Needs “side by side, RAT 1 & 2 size comparison” - as this appears to be the industry standard in knife videos :)
the PS4 IS NOT MADE IN CHINA!
You are correct. I posted in the UA-cam community post to correct that. My bad.
@@WaynesSharpWorld your sins are forgiven but you must buy two Leatherman’s to make up for it.
so the main complaint with the gerber scissors is that you are right handed.
Dude ... do you not own a computer?
Don't know what the blade on the squirt is made of?
It's not specified????
It literally says on the box... or the website... it's made of 420HC..
Like literally EVERY SINGLE LEATHERMAN SINCE THE VERY FIRST DAY.
The entire tool is made of 420HC.
*I AM DISGUSTED WITH LEATHERMAN GOIN IN THE CHEAP ASS DIRECTION OF REMOVING THE ABILITY TO SCREW AND UN SCREW SCREWS AN INSTEAD HAVE THOSE BULLSHT NON SCREWS ON THE TOOL. WONT BE BUYING AS LONG AS THAT IS A THING. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MOD MY SHIT WITHOUT USING GAD DAM FKN DRILLS 8/*