1 Year Rust Review: Leatherman Kick

[NeitherExtreme]

Great thread guys!

Thanks spoon for the write-up and pics, very informative. Thanks for the rust-removal tip LM123. And great job with the clip DaveK! (I also liked the captions)

I used my kick (clipped in my pocket) for construction work for about a year and gave it very little care, and it had only a couple of small spots every once in a while. Right now it's being sheath-carried for farm work and it's holding up well.

[Benner]

Great pics Spoon. 

I think the Kick did pretty well. 

[Sea Monster]

I just think it is neato that you can swap the broader range of Blast tools into the smaller Kick frame.

Take that Sog.

Still, no reamer eh.

[Spoonrobot]

Interestingly enough the SOG tools will fit in the Leatherman frames. In stock form the SOG implements will partially engage either the locking tab or the flatspring tab with a 5-10 degree deviation from true when open. It appears to me that with a small amount of material removal from the tang of the SOG implements they will work fairly well. Or at least the Saw/File/Blades; since using a drivers with that degree of deviation is not going to work very well.

I'm still messing around with the implements but I'll have a thread about it when I get some time. I've got Bear parts and Gerber parts to try too.

[Poncho65]

I do know that Bear Jaw parts and older LMs can be interchangable I took a diamond file from a PST II and put it in my Toolzall (Super Bear Jaws) Maintenance Pro and put it's file in the PST II so not to have the gap

If the Blast Kick series tools are anything like the older LM tools then it should all work