Hand Tool Reviews

You can tell from my title description that I'm a girl, but this thing (really a manly item) is so cute! Girls would love it, too! It has MORE attachments than I thought it would. I assumed my husband would NEVER want to use the pen, but it is an unbelievably smooth and comfortable writing tool. The tiny scissors are powerful buggers! Although you'd think Hello Kitty Fan Sized hands may be the only ones to operate such a small tool, but I have fairly large hands and so does my husband (Christmas present for him) and the comfort and efficiency of this thing is great. MiniChamp is a champion!

Though this knife IS a bit heavy it is well balanced with a nice combination of tools.

This is my first high-quality multitool.
I also considered buying Leatherman Wave, but that's much more expensive and it's not "Swiss quality".
I'm thrilled with the appearance (didn't get to use it yet): it's like having a whole tool set in your palm!
The only drawbacks: there is no knife in the tradiional sense (no "pointy knife", but a "square headed" one, and you cannot open it with just one hand, the way Wave works), and the pouch is kind of bulky if you only need to carry the main tool (given that I got the "Spirit Plus", so it needs to accomodate the extra tools as well).
Definitely satisfied with the quality and price I got.

I bought this gadget at a boutique chi-chi store in Cambridge, MA. It was the cheapest item there was. I was so impressed by its performance I returned to buy more for Christmas stocking stuffers- they were out of it! Thank you Amazon- I found Snip-It. The Snip-its razor blade is consistently sharp! ergonomically handy for the fingers and very handy to store. For those who bring home fresh flowers weekly (even the affordable carnations), this tool is a keeper!

I use the Total Trolley for everything from trash duty to carrying 1,600 CDs. We stack our 26 CD cases, weighing about 20 pounds a piece, on the cart and wheel it around with no problems. That's well over 500 pounds! I bought the collapsing cases, too. They are very handy for groceries, small items, etc. The ladder set-up is fast, easy, and very stable. I feel very safe standing on the TOP rung - fully allowed. The versatility is endless. We use it to move furniture, carry several large sacks of dog food, just about every lifting job I used to do manually, I now let the cart do it for me. This cart is well worth the cost, and then some. I have no idea how I managed without it!

Having looked at a number of loppers, this one combines great value and quality. The ratcheting action leverages cuts, making them smooth and easy, even through dead branches!

I live in a duplex neighborhood where other's trash accumilates in my yard(which is opened to the nieghborhood and not really mine). Although I am responsible for keeping up my "yard" I am not authorised to tell people or children to "leave my yard" since it is public rental property. Trash(usually other's) often gets left after loitering teens at night or children playing during the day. I do NOT like to touch other peoples toilet paper, cleanexs, underware, or diapers or more frequently cigerettes and tabacco cans which get left in my yard and so this tool is great for quickly despensing of the refuse and me keeping my lease.

This little pick is invaluable to the concrete flatwork formsetter for digging under stringlines and prying forms up and into place. Also handy for stripping forms. Highly recommended.

Well, maybe not all, but I have been using these for 20 years or more. Number One, they are hands down The Best IC chip extractors. When I can't find one of the several I keep around, I'm lost without it. Any job that needs a long skinny sharp pointy thing, this does it. BTW, I've *never* used it to scribe anything!

For all printmakers who are still filing edges of copper and zinc plates, this tool is wonderful! The time filing edges is reduced to several passes with the Shaviv and a few minutes of filing of the corners. Your hands will thank you too.