It appears the Blacktip is gone from West Marines website.
those paladin tools...drool........
Where can a guy find one of these to purchase? Sure don't see them in the usual places.
Quote from: captain spaulding on May 16, 2014, 10:08:49 AMIt appears the Blacktip is gone from West Marines website. It's still listed on their website with "Limited availability" and still at the discounted price.http://www.westmarine.com/multi-purpose-tools/blacktip--fisherman-s-ii-multi-tool--11752177I have noticed that the "Performance Sailing Multi-Tool" which is made for West Marine by SOG is no longer listed though.
My biggest & smallest pliers.
They'll restock. They always do. Prices vary from 40 something to as low as $27 last time (I think someone bought half a dozen once). I'm always tempted when there's one of these sales but cause of the size of it I doubt I'd ever actually use it.
WHS ^I believe the BlackTip was made exclusively for West Marine, so when they do finally run out of stock I guess it will be whatever comes up on eBay etc.
Quote from: gregozedobe on September 20, 2014, 02:09:18 AMWHS ^I believe the BlackTip was made exclusively for West Marine, so when they do finally run out of stock I guess it will be whatever comes up on eBay etc.That well may be. Here's what I received:'Dear Dxxxxx,thanks for contacting us. The Blacktip Fisherman is an old item currently on clearance, we have only few left now.'I won't bet on this being re-stocked or not, but according to this message those few left are a pretty much it. And for a $31 + shipping for a full-size SOG it's a no-brainer in my books. I should have it in NZ for about $43 all inclusive, so ...yeah First time I looked into owning one of those about 2 years ago they were $65 + shipping and that pretty much put me off back then.
Mate it was almost the price of the tool itself to ship to Aus/NZ...so I used my shipping address I set up in US. All in all it will cost me about $13 to reach my door.Cheers
I have plans to customize the blacktip to make it more useful.Added a 3 parts to cart on SOG website, with shipping these three parts already cost as much as the blacktip itself... Never mind, since I will never carry it outside of my home, I guess I will just leave it alone.