| LEATHERMAN Charge Tti | 
| Brand: Leatherman
Category: Sports
Buy Used: £114.79 - £150.59 (On sale from £169.95)
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Titanium Handles Needlenose Pliers Regular Pliers Wire Cutters Hard-Wire Cutters Saw Scissors Wood/Metal File Diamond Coated File Large Bit Driver Large Screwdriver 8 Double Ended Bits Ruler Bottle/Can Opener Wire Stripper Removable Pocket Clip Small Screwdriver Serrated KnifeCrimper Cutting Hook Fixed Lanyard Ring Quick-Release Lanyard Ring S30V Clip-Point Knife
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
Women! July 25, 2010
Armchair
Women! Do you have a Husband/Boyfrined/Son who you always struggle to buy presents for? Ever get the impression he's only pretending to like that jumper with the snow man on you bought him for Christmas? Is he - dare we say it - a tad geeky in a techy sort of way?
He will probably like this. Once he's absorbed the technical specs that is!
On paper it's impressive. I thought hard about whether to give this 4 or 5 stars though for two reasons:
One, it is VERY expensive. Becuase of it's cost, I avoid using this as a primary tool for the jobs it can do, which means it's always gonna be an indulgence. A luxury.
Second, it was very stiff when I bought it. Given the costs I didn't think it was unreasonable for this to be more precision engineered. However, repeatedly opening and closing it (whilst watching telly for what must have been in total a few hours), with the occasional application of WD-40 has left it satisfyingly smooth.
I'll give you two reasons it does get 5 stars though. Firstly, it's clearly better than the opposition. I have a Gerber Suspension too which costs around £30. The Charge makes that seem like a toy.
Secondly, the technical specs translate to real world impressive results. I was recently cutting down a large bush in confined space in my garden, my normal hand saw was too big for the space so I tried the wood-saw on this, I was honestly surprised to find out that not only did it work, it worked better than my full size wood saw! Same with the hard wire cutters in the plier jaws. Cutting a wire coat hanger the other day with the Charge was fine. Later using an older normal set of proper pliers for the same task, I was surprised to see the wire coat hanger had distorted the cutting edge of the normal pliers.
So, not just advertising bumpf this.
Brilliant......!!!! May 12, 2010
M. T. Schofield (Bournemouth UK)
I bought this to replace my ''Wave'' about the only thing they don't do is stop themselves being lost. I had read a review that said the quality was not as good on the later tools, I find this not to be the case, and I'm fussy.
The Charge is a well built, piece of kit, feels like it'll take some rough handling, and stand up to it, it has additional features to the wave, which has been a great tool.
If you want a multitool there really isn't a choice, pay the extra and get one of these, still expensive, but this price is a considerable saving to other internet retailers. It's quite bulky in the leather case supplied, but has presence, so that makes up for it.
 Good, but not cheap March 28, 2010
Mr. D. Walker (London)
Lots of useful bits. Like all these things there are just far too many blades - I'm not sure what they expect me to be hacking away at! Very slight flex in the arms when putting a lot of pressure on the pliers. Rather a lot of cash for what it is, but an essential part of my emergency-tool-kit.
A Mans Best Tool February 27, 2010
Bobbo (Europe)
My GF bought this for my birthday and it's a cracking piece of kit. I've been wanting a leatherman for years to replace my ageing swiss army knife and I got the Charge TTi.
It's not a beautiful piece of kit like the swiss knife, more functional and there to do the job its designed to do. Feels rock solid and heavy and I could probably throw this through a heavy duty shredder, run over it with a few trucks and chuck it off a cliff and it will still come out unscathed.
Best features: the new cloth cutter on the back of the waved blade is useful,I do cut canvas with it. Also, the locking mechanism is safe and secure unlike my swiss knife where I've been screwdrivering and then it slips into my finger, resulting in a lot of pain. Won't happen with the leatherman. Blades are razor sharp. Love being able to change the driver bits.
Only thing I really miss on this compared to the swiss knife is the tweezers.
5/5, best multitool on the planet. Will last forever and durable enough end up as a museum artifact in a few thousand years time.
Leatherman Charge TTi January 12, 2010
I. Johnston (London)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As the result of a stupid (and expensive!) mistake at the airport, I lost my first Charge TTi to the security dustbin at Gatwick recently. This is my second Charge TTi and my third Leatherman ( my first one is a 14 year old SuperTool that is still in very good condition and which I keep as a fallback). The fact that I replaced the lost Charge with the same tool says a lot - including the fact that although it's not cheap, I think this tool is worth every penny of the asking price.
Any problems or issues?
Well, on first inspection, the new tool was extremely stiff, but the trick of soaking it in very hot water, followed by a sparing squirt or two of PTFE lubricant spray helped a lot and I'm sure that with use it will continue to free up as the previous one did.
As with any plier-based tool you need to exercise care to avoid nipping your finger in the apex of the grips if you allow the jaws to slip on the workpiece - but then care in use should be a 'given' with any type of tool.
Something I have noticed over the years is how many people seem to be rather nervous around multi-tools - many of my otherwise perfectly capable friends and colleagues hand back the Leatherman to me still open after they have borrowed it, saying something like, "I like my fingers, so I'll let you close it up !" & I suppose the point here is to take the time to get to know your multi-tool inside out. Every item on the Charge TTi locks firmly into position for use, but the lock releases are well implemented and very easy to use. Yes, of course you need to be careful, especially when closing a blade, but then so you should be with any sharp tool - and if you don't keep tools sharp then they are worse than useless, blunt tools are positively dangerous!
I have heard it rumoured that Leatherman blades don't hold their edge as well as, say Victorinox. All I can say is that in my experience, Leatherman blades as supplied are very sharp indeed, and it is perfectly possible to keep them that way. I use a small kitchen knife sharpening tool (can't remember the exact details, but made or sold by 'Aston' rings a bell) that I picked up a few years ago at the ideal Home exhibition, which not only keeps the clip point blade razor sharp, it does a brilliant job on the serrated blade too.
What do I like about his tool? Lots!
The main difference between this and the previous model I owned is the cutting hook on the tip of the serrated blade - it is shown as being useful for cutting seat-belts, and whilst I am comforted by the ease with which I could escape from a seatbelt should I need to, I find a far more mundane use for it as an excellent tool for cutting nylon cable ties without risking cutting into the cables, and also for cutting packing strapping and the like.
Between them the clip pointed blade and the serrated blade/hook will cope with just about any cutting task - though there are some I would avoid with any non-disposable blade such as cutting carpet, as this is one of the quickest ways I know to take the edge off a blade. The wood saw blade is superb and will cope easily with surprisingly heavy cuts - there is absolutely no feeling of it being a last resort if no other option is available, it does the job very well indeed, and can get into places that would not be accessible with a more conventional saw. The box joint on the plier is very firm and convincing, and on my previous Charge TTi showed no signs of becoming sloppy after considerable use.
One of the great things about this multi-tool is that every item on it is both sensible & useful - obviously there will be tools you use more than others, but I find that I do use pretty much every aspect of this tool. The interchangeable bits bring considerable additional flexibility, and whilst I tend to leave a reversible medium cross/flat bit in the holder as 'standard' the fact that you have the option lifts it above most of the competition.
Talking of which, when I had to replace the lost tool, I took the opportunity to do some research, and came to the conclusion that the closest competition came from the Gerber range. Whilst there are some very attractive options in that range, I came to the conclusion that the combination of tools on the Charge TTi was the most useful to me - and that together with the very positive experience I had already had with Leatherman products, that made the decision.
A multi-tool is a very personal choice, driven in part by the nature of the tasks you wish to undertake with it. I can't help you decide if this is the right tool for your needs, but I can tell you that in my view, if the combination of tools it contains matches your needs, and you are prepared to spend the money, then the practicality & quality with which Leatherman has implemented the tools in the Charge TTi is of the very highest order.
There are different multi-tools, there are cheaper multi-tools but I don't think there are many that are anything like this good.
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