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Offline Accujohn

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Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« on: November 19, 2011, 11:38:59 PM »
Headed out to the Oregon coast for the weekend. Love to hit the shops for used treasures or whatever. Heck thats where I found the 1984 PST I just sold here. Not so much this time. But my sense of humor has improved:

First contact: my wife couldnt stay away from the fing outlet mall... Enter Eddie Bauer. They had something that seemed awful similar to a Gerber for $17. From China. Nope.

Second contact: the chinese as seen on TV store. Mtech multitool with spring loaded pliers. I bought it for the actual Spring in the plier :) photo to come :)

More to come: Leatherman...

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Re: Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2011, 12:41:33 AM »
Headed out to the Oregon coast for the weekend. Love to hit the shops for used treasures or whatever. Heck thats where I found the 1984 PST I just sold here. Not so much this time. But my sense of humor has improved:

First contact: my wife couldnt stay away from the fing outlet mall... Enter Eddie Bauer. They had something that seemed awful similar to a Gerber for $17. From China. Nope.

Second contact: the chinese as seen on TV store. Mtech multitool with spring loaded pliers. I bought it for the actual Spring in the plier :) photo to come :)

More to come: Leatherman...


HMMM......... Very interested.  :)

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Re: Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 01:22:07 AM »
Anyway, I had never bought a Chinese multi tool but since it had the slinky spring in the plier jaws, and is proudly labled "USA DESIGN, Handcrafted in China" I had to fork it out. I'll elaborate in another thread.

Third contact: a Gerber MP400 or something that had been loved way too much for $35. in a pawn type shop.

Lastly, I found a Leatherman at the same place I think I found the 1984 PST. Nothing spectacular but certainly unusual... a 04/97 Micra with USA on the scissor pivot. Completely unused MINT. I actually had missed my Micra from many moons ago and had my eyes pealed for one. So, I was pretty happy I didn't come up too dry. Leatherman was mostly what I was looking for (and Gerber secondly, or anything vintage)

I did see a couple oddball Solingen multi tools, one name Bonsa with nice attachments (exchanger saw, etc). They had it as WWI but looked closer to WWII to me. And it was $95 which seemed high :)

Anyway, loved finding a 1997 mint USA Micra. That's all I got so far. 1 or 2 places tomorrow on the way out. Here's that wierd slinky spring loaded plier. I'll post the Micra after I take pictures :)

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Re: Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2011, 01:23:59 AM »
Micra photos to come...

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Re: Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2011, 05:09:16 AM »
here's a photo of the 97 Micra

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Re: Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2011, 05:14:46 AM »
I think you just made me carry my Micra tomorrow.  :D

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Re: Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2011, 06:43:10 PM »
Glad to hear you had a good trip, and the USA Micra is a bonus find!  Those are getting tougher to find these days.

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Hunting for Leatherman on the coast
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2011, 07:28:23 PM »
Yeah, not going to hit any places on the way out, unless they beckon me :)......... Or if they have an animatronic Leatherman on the roof
« Last Edit: November 20, 2011, 07:31:03 PM by Accujohn »

 

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