I had a tree guy on my property today, and while he was de-vining some pine trees he found a leatherman wave in a leather case under the vines. Someone lost it behind my fence line. Wondering who was walking my fence line, but also happy to have a new free tool It appears to be an older Wave. It does not have locking inner tools, and it has "PAT PEND" under the Leatherman logo. All the blades and tools are fine, but there is some rust on the rough textured end pieces. It may or may not clean up. One side has a flat driver, phillips driver, can opener, and tiny lanyard loop. The other handle has scissors and three more flat drivers. I don't know much about the history of leatherman (I'm a Gerber guy), so I'd appreciate any enlightenment you can give as to the generation and year it may have been made.I'm going to clean it lube it and put it into rotation. BUT, I'm guessing there's no provision for a pocket clip for this old model, as the only clip I can find seems to use the locking mechanism on the current tool to retain it. Charles.
98-99, nice score
I never knew they made a Wave without locking tools.
It was inside a tightly-fitting brown leather holster, which seems to have protected it from the worst of the weather, as there was only minimal rust. I've already cleaned it up and lubed it, and everything is working great. Charles.
Two date codes inside either handle. 0299 and 1198.Also i'd post pics but the site is broken and now I have to host them elsewhere and it's really annoying.Charles.
Any photo I try and post from my phone gets me this:
Yeah, I'm not going to do all that. It's 2021, not 2001. The forum software should automatically resize incoming images. Charles.
Well then, maybe you could help fund the software upgrades needed to do that
Or you could reset your phone or camera's settings so that it automatically records pictures in the acceptable size format for posting on websites. There's no reason to take pictures in what would in the real world be the size of a poster if you printed them in actual size. I don't even know why that exists as a setting, let alone why it is the default setting for most of our devices. Reducing the default picture size saves memory too.