Leatherman PST chronology project

[ryan1835]

what about the hollow rivetd screws?

[DaveK]

..and the screwed rivets?

[ryan1835]

 

and the oh wait

[J-sews]

Great idea with the demo picture Dave! 

[Zed]

I shall have a look as I go through Ryan

In the meantime, tell me what you think of this as a diagram:

thats great Dave, just printing it out 

paul

[DaveK]

I'll send you a bill for the royalties Paul

[Zed]

I'll send you a bill for the royalties Paul

     i owe ya mate  do you except all major credit cards and PST's 

[Poncho65]

Very comprehensive Dave Will be a great help in determining age of some PSTs that otherwise would just be educated guesses at best Can't wait to see it all when completely finished

[DaveK]

It's coming along, but I'm not happy with the pictures I'm getting at the moment. Need to fix up my lamps or wait until the weekend and get outside I think

The wordy bits are coming together though

[Dunc]

Looks really good Dave , I'm looking to expand my PST collection so this will be a great help 

Dunc

[Poncho65]

It's funny looking back to 2 years ago how little we really knew about the PST until a few threads like this 1 shed so much light on them

[DaveK]

Well, I'm starting to think I imagined the 4th blade type 

I'm sticking with three for now, but who knows

[J-sews]

Well, I'm starting to think I imagined the 4th blade type 

I'm sticking with three for now, but who knows

Were you thinking of a PST II combo blade perhaps?

[DaveK]

No, it was a bit more subtle than that.

I thought I'd spotted a sort of "halfway" between the sabre and the final clip point blades, not quite the usual one or the other. But it was late, so maybe I was just tired - very odd

[DaveK]

At the meet on Saturday, I saw a PST that belonged to Tony that was every bit as interesting as I'd hoped.

I'd asked Tony to bring it along, based on some comments he'd made about it on another thread some time ago - I suspected it might be a bit special....



As you can see, it's unused as Tony received it as a gift from his parents in the late 80s. Consequently, it has no date codes (pre-1992)......



It has the "saber blade" and tools that are consistent with a late 80s PST, but has both cm and inches on the ruler - this would suggest a very late 80s model with the metric scale on there.



BUT - this PST has the original plier heads, without any TOOL or USA markings, as used on the early PSTs. I haven't seen this plier head on a tool that doesn't also have the drop point blade, old style awl etc. Has anyone else?

The fact that it is still with its original box too made me want to throw it in the back of the Landrover and clear off with it - but Tony's a big bloke

Discuss!