Japan riveted PST

[Dunc]

I've wanted one of these for ages and Dennis was able to fix me up with one  As you can see its in as new condition with box , sheath and user guide    I'm sorry Ben but its going to stay that way  Its going to be displayed alongside another treasure I have ...... a BO non cap crimper PST  I have 6 PSTs now and can see why DaveK has quite a few , they are very addictive .

  One thing I'm not sure about is the box states 1985 on it but I thought they werent made in Japan until 1986  can anyone confirm this please ?

Right without further dilay heres the pics 

[Andreas]

Congrats 

[MultiMat]

Very cool Dunc  .

[Dunc]

Just realised I was still at school when this was made 

[J-sews]

Wow, a real piece of history you've got there Duncan! I cannot believe there are many of those left around that are still complete with the Made in Japan box!   Congrats!


As regards manufacturing dates, here it is straight from the man himself:

"From day one, in 1983, we have had our factory here in Portland, Oregon, from which we produced more than 10 million PSTs.  From late 1985 until early 1989, in an attempt to fill exponential demand, we also had about 300,000 PSTs produced in Japan.  The easiest way to identify the Japan PSTs is that they used rivets, with smooth heads, instead of pins and screws, with knurled heads to connect the blades and jaws to the handles."
 
-Tim Leatherman

[Gareth]

Great bit of LM history there Dunc.

[Pacu]

new is awesome ...but with box and guide

i love the big lettering

very nice

[Dunc]

Wow, a real piece of history you've got there Duncan! I cannot believe there are many of those left around that are still complete with the Made in Japan box!   Congrats!


As regards manufacturing dates, here it is straight from the man himself:

"From day one, in 1983, we have had our factory here in Portland, Oregon, from which we produced more than 10 million PSTs.  From late 1985 until early 1989, in an attempt to fill exponential demand, we also had about 300,000 PSTs produced in Japan.  The easiest way to identify the Japan PSTs is that they used rivets, with smooth heads, instead of pins and screws, with knurled heads to connect the blades and jaws to the handles."
 
-Tim Leatherman

Cheers Bob    Was all the Japanese packaging like mine or did it change at any point ?

[J-sews]

Yours is only the third or fourth Japan box like that I've seen Dunc. I've never seen any other packaging with Japan on it.

[Poncho65]

new is awesome ...but with box and guide

i love the big lettering

very nice

Yeah the papers and box plus sheath makes that a much more rare find than just a Japanese PST by itself Thanks for sharing Dunc

[David]

Very     Dunc!!

[Dunc]

The more I read up about it the more I love it  I'm so pleased with it .

[Dunc]

I posted the pics up on LMs facebook page just to see if someone would say " Leathermans aren't made outside the U.S " or words to that effect and sure enough I've already been told it must be a fake 

[Pacu]

It's clearly a fake

That big lettering is a clear giveaway...   better send it to me for proper disposal...wouldn't want such a blatant fake in circulation.

[Dunc]

It's clearly a fake

That big lettering is a clear giveaway...   better send it to me for proper disposal...wouldn't want such a blatant fake in circulation.

lol I'm packaging it up as we speak