I still have a mag lite from the eighties and although it's a new one I carry a Buck 112, oh and a Buck 102 LoL. Over the years my Buck 110 disappeared 😔. I switch back and forth from a Gerber Suspension and a SOG PowerPint. These days I have a couple cheaper flashlights and a head lamp I rotate through depending what I think my days look like. I enjoyed the video thank you Cheers beers and whiskey 🤠🥃
The flashlight and the RoboGrip pliers bring back some memories. I still have the RoboGrips but I have been enjoying the Roxon Flex and companion. I like having the options to switch out the implements.
In the early to mid 90s I carried a Victorinox old-style German Army knife, the one with the nylon scales and that odd combotool with saw, bottle/can opener and awkward screwdriver on the end, with a fairly large reamer and corkscrew as backtools. I bought it in Germany whilst I was stationed over there in the British Army and carried it for a few years, later losing it as a civilian, whilst visiting Berlin actually. Between then and 2020 I probably only carried any kind of knife for a couple of years. a small backlocking Buck clone in the late 90s when I lived in Spain and then Ireland, then I bought an Opinel on a trip to the UK and not knowing it was illegal carried it there, then a few months later after I'd moved to the Netherlands I lent it to a friend little knowing he was going to use it to open a can (!) and chucked it after that as obviously the blade came back destroyed. When I got back into EDC a few years back I wanted an old style German Army knife and was dismayed to find the Victorinox ones had long been discontinued, so I opted for the Hiker as that was a UK legal knife with pretty much the same toolset of the current German (and Swiss issue) army knife, also known as the GAK, Soldier 08, or the civilian equivalents the One-Handed Trekker, aka Trailmaster. Since then I've gone deeper down the EDC rabbithole and have over 10 SAKs, half a dozen folders, and about half a dozen multitools as well as Knipex Cobra XS and other gear. Sat here now with a Swisschamp in my pocket, that's my only ''one and done'' multitool as I like to have scissors on me at all times.
I found the 3 piece set of those exact Craftsman robogrips new in box old stock. My best garage sale find of 2024! I do have to admit I edc my newer knipex cobra 125s though.
That was great evolution video. Thanks so much.
I still have a mag lite from the eighties and although it's a new one I carry a Buck 112, oh and a Buck 102 LoL. Over the years my Buck 110 disappeared 😔.
I switch back and forth from a Gerber Suspension and a SOG PowerPint. These days I have a couple cheaper flashlights and a head lamp I rotate through depending what I think my days look like.
I enjoyed the video thank you
Cheers beers and whiskey 🤠🥃
The flashlight and the RoboGrip pliers bring back some memories. I still have the RoboGrips but I have been enjoying the Roxon Flex and companion. I like having the options to switch out the implements.
I have the kobalt plier in that size range it sounds dumb but I put a pocket clip on there for a little bit more security. It works.
In the early to mid 90s I carried a Victorinox old-style German Army knife, the one with the nylon scales and that odd combotool with saw, bottle/can opener and awkward screwdriver on the end, with a fairly large reamer and corkscrew as backtools. I bought it in Germany whilst I was stationed over there in the British Army and carried it for a few years, later losing it as a civilian, whilst visiting Berlin actually. Between then and 2020 I probably only carried any kind of knife for a couple of years. a small backlocking Buck clone in the late 90s when I lived in Spain and then Ireland, then I bought an Opinel on a trip to the UK and not knowing it was illegal carried it there, then a few months later after I'd moved to the Netherlands I lent it to a friend little knowing he was going to use it to open a can (!) and chucked it after that as obviously the blade came back destroyed.
When I got back into EDC a few years back I wanted an old style German Army knife and was dismayed to find the Victorinox ones had long been discontinued, so I opted for the Hiker as that was a UK legal knife with pretty much the same toolset of the current German (and Swiss issue) army knife, also known as the GAK, Soldier 08, or the civilian equivalents the One-Handed Trekker, aka Trailmaster.
Since then I've gone deeper down the EDC rabbithole and have over 10 SAKs, half a dozen folders, and about half a dozen multitools as well as Knipex Cobra XS and other gear.
Sat here now with a Swisschamp in my pocket, that's my only ''one and done'' multitool as I like to have scissors on me at all times.
I found the 3 piece set of those exact Craftsman robogrips new in box old stock. My best garage sale find of 2024!
I do have to admit I edc my newer knipex cobra 125s though.
The times sure have changed lol, I started carrying a knife at 8 years old so it was 1990.
Robogrips came.out in the 90s... maybe I'm wrong and if I am correct me. I still have mine as well