Metro, why the Raptor???
...boots are now my big worry for her. I forgot she has spent some time in Africa a few years ago but doing more touristy type stuff.
Drum roll..........For her multi tool I ended up finding a Victorinox Spirit X within her budget. Took a while hunting ebay like a hawk for more than almost a week but I found one.For smaller knives (pocket knives) we're going with a huntsman, tinker (or super tinker) and a classic or two. ....may double up on the tinker if she chooses.I'm also "donating" 50' of black and 50' of bright yellow or green (her choice) of paracord.....we all know how useful that could be and 100' might not be enough but I don't want to weigh her down too much since she is probably still going to pack like a girl. I stock thousands of feet of the stuff anyways and can spare someMight send her with a 111mm "adventurer" I just picked up as well but I don't want to be giving her a bunch of good tools if she won't respect them. I'll gauge her needs when we meet up again later and go from there. I wish she knew where she was going, if push came to shove and mail was a possibility I could send her requested tools after her first year or so.
Quote from: wonderwolf on February 21, 2014, 06:29:39 AMDrum roll..........For her multi tool I ended up finding a Victorinox Spirit X within her budget. Took a while hunting ebay like a hawk for more than almost a week but I found one.For smaller knives (pocket knives) we're going with a huntsman, tinker (or super tinker) and a classic or two. ....may double up on the tinker if she chooses.I'm also "donating" 50' of black and 50' of bright yellow or green (her choice) of paracord.....we all know how useful that could be and 100' might not be enough but I don't want to weigh her down too much since she is probably still going to pack like a girl. I stock thousands of feet of the stuff anyways and can spare someMight send her with a 111mm "adventurer" I just picked up as well but I don't want to be giving her a bunch of good tools if she won't respect them. I'll gauge her needs when we meet up again later and go from there. I wish she knew where she was going, if push came to shove and mail was a possibility I could send her requested tools after her first year or so. Personally, those are excellent choices, even though I too love my leathermen.It'd be great from time to time we get some action report back from her to see how she likes her tools. Vic Spirit is pretty, and unless it is carried in sheath, I do suggest to use lanyard with it. Maybe a small clip/paracord lanyard on person?
Spirit itself doesn't have a dedicated lanyard anchor point, but an easy way to solve this is simply to use the corkscrew attachment point as a lanyard hole. Many of our members here do use it this way:http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?topic=382.0Personally, I did make a lanyard with a small clip on one end, so you could unclip the tool when you take it out.
Quote from: comis on February 25, 2014, 08:11:17 AMSpirit itself doesn't have a dedicated lanyard anchor point, but an easy way to solve this is simply to use the corkscrew attachment point as a lanyard hole. Many of our members here do use it this way:http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?topic=382.0Personally, I did make a lanyard with a small clip on one end, so you could unclip the tool when you take it out.The documentation for the Spirit actually does mark the corkscrew attachment on one side as the lanyard attachment point.
If you need it I can donate 10 or 20 feet of safety orange paracord, and probally 50ft of od green if you want it. Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk