Quality steel, you will know this as "right" when you heft it.

By cortezbankbugslayer Ranked #438 - Summer Accessories March 16, 2009

Bulletproof. Originally purchased in '96 to fill a requirement that students have available at all times a multi-tool (during a half-year diving course at Diver's Institute of Tech, Seattle, WA) that has the following attributes: must be well-made (we used ours BRUTALLY hard), of excellent steel, tough, have diverse applications easliy accessed, and be a real ONE-HANDED OPENING DEVICE. I took this program with a bunch of SeAL's and other professionals in the commercial deep-sea diving industry. When I arrived on campus the first day I simply asked around, "What should I get?" "SOG" was the consistent answer, assuming one could afford it. Back then it was about seventy bucks. It has never left my right hip since. With time, the tool has loosened up in a very good way - the actions become silkier with time, and the steel is top-notch; holds an edge, fiercly sharp, brutally hard - no hint of cost-cutting overseas alloy to the metal. You will know this for exactly what it is the first time you hold it in your hand - it's just feels "right" (I think of it as art in the same way a perfect tool can be a perfect friend.) I just now bought a second pair so I can give one to my brother to keep in his car. In my own experience, those who know use SOG. It's made here in the US, and it is dedicated

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