Hunting for Leatherman on the coast

Accujohn · **on:** November 20, 2011, 12:38:59 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...

captain spaulding · **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2011, 01:41:33 AM

Quote from: Accujohn on November 20, 2011, 12:38:59 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.

Accujohn · **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2011, 02:22:07 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

Accujohn · **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2011, 02:23:59 AM

Micra photos to come...

Accujohn · **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2011, 06:09:16 AM

here's a photo of the 97 Micra

captain spaulding · **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2011, 06:14:46 AM

I think you just made me carry my Micra tomorrow.

The Copilot · **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2011, 07:43:10 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.

Accujohn · **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2011, 08:28:23 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

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