The story begun around 1999, when I found a SAK at my friend’s step-father home, it was just sitting in a drawer doing nothing, so he gave it to me. It was a handy little gadget and I kept it on my key ring for a while. It was too heavy for key ring really, after I started driving later that year, I took it off and kept it nearby until it MIA after we move in our new home in 2010. Later I learned that SAK was called the “Mechanic”.
In 2002, I purchased a Swiss+Tech Utili-key 6-in-1 (Made in USA) as my keychain tool. It doesn’t offer much but a few basic functions are covered. It stays on my key ring every single day ever since then.
Fast forward to Dec 2013, I was shopping in Home Depot, the $20 Leatherman Wingman caught my attention, bought it and really impressed by its OHO blade and pocket clip. I couldn’t believe how easy to carry a MT and how useful it could be! Researching it on internet led me to MT.o, that really sucked me into the MT madness.
Everyone on MT.o were friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. I rapidly upgrade to a Sidekick, then Wave, then Surge within my first month of MT addiction. By Apr 2014, Breezy12 helped me to construct my first custom MT, the infamous Mini-Surge.
Mini-Surge was as close to the perfect MT as it gets, but it didn’t stop me from exploring other options, I carried different MT throughout the years for experiment, and the Skeletool/Micra combo remains as one of my favored.
By June 2015 I mostly settled on the setup of one light weight mid-size MT plus a dedicated folder as my EDC. The search for perfect MT and folders goes on.
My current EDC took shape in Jan 2016 after I failed the “SOG Power Challenge”, I begun to carry a Victorinox Spirit and a Cold Steel mega folder. Life is good and I have no complaints on the setup whatsoever.
For more details, see my EDC thread at
http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,49951.0.html
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