Gear Armbar Drive 8-in-1 Pocket Knife EDC Multitool with Screwdriver, 2.5" Blade, Urban Blue

Gerber quality is up there with leatherman

I purchased this for potential cub scout knife. I am not a fan of the swiss army knives. Some brands are amazing some are garbage. Those blades and tools do not lock when opened. the blade locks when opened. the blade is made better with a quality metal that will hold an edge. the swiss army's will not. The lock for the blade could be better. Any teen can do it. an 8-10 year old can not unless they use a tool to help them. (a stick, pencil, marker) they do not have the thumb strength. You need to put your hand infront of the blade and close the blade towards your hand to close. NOT A SMART IDEA! But I get it. it was an option for including a lock open. The awl is sharp. The point is piercing. be careful. I do not know the hardness but if they used a quality steel it could be a scribe. that would be impressive! an awl and a scribe. it will scribe on wood, plastics and soft metal. The double headed screwdriver is nice to have! It too needs a lock on it to stay open or a ball indent that simi locks it in place at different angles! I reached out to Gerber 2 months ago and they have not called or emailed me back! I guess they do not like my ideas. The screw driver has been helpful. alot more helpful than a corkscrew. I can not recall the last time I went camping where I needed a corkscrew! I know in college we needed one but none of us had one so we used a hammer and a screw driver. It worked but that was 20 years ago. The scissors. Those are the best tool on this! i use them frequently! They do open very weird, you have to flip them around. They need to include a feature so the scissors will not push back into the knive containment area. the small piece of bent metal is a joke as it does not work well to prevent that. it does work well as an extra wide handle. Please keep that and make it bigger and add something inside the scissor recess area to prevent it from pushing in! The hammer/ bottle opener is a great fidget device. I find myself opening it and closing it. they both work but the hammer is only for tacks and soft things. It will not drive a large nail into wood but a tack nail into gypsum board. I did buy this for my Bear Scout and one for dad and older sister.

I bought this because I realized that the tools I used the most weren't my single-blade folders, and my OG Leatherman Wave weighs half a pound. Long story short, this tool is great, and any tools that are better are less likely to get carried around. Things I like: Size: it's less than half the size of the Leatherman Wave. It's not going to bash into my leg if I just threw it in my pocket. It's small enough that I'll probably end up having it on me all the time. Screwdriver: I've used it to set up an air conditioner vent, and to tighten up a drawer pull. Other reviews were really worried about it closing up in use, but I haven't seen that. The screwdriver is angled slightly so it puts the point on the axis of the tool body, but the line of action points toward forcing the pivot open. So if you really push on it should tend to stay open. It also sticks out farther overall than my Wave, and has swappable bits. This is the single best feature and the one I use the most. Awl: I've used this to scribe part of the window trim for the AC unit. It's not carbide, but I think this is how I'll end up using it. Are ok with caveats, and the caveats are all basically "these can't be improved without screwing up the form factor of the tool, but they are still pretty great to have in your pocket" Bottle opener: it's too short to reach halfway across the bottle cap, so it takes two hits to open. One to bend up an edge really far, then a second hit farther over to ease the cap off. Overall it's reminiscent of the "You Earned It" opener that bends the cap in half, other than it's only big enough to bend a quarter or so of the cap, and isn't half a pound. Pry bar: I've used it to get battery covers open, but it is a little short. Better than my fingernails though, which is the key here. Knife: it's sharp, it's decently shaped, but opening one hand is a bit slow and fidgety. The problem is that the tool is basically square in cross section, so as you push the blade out with your thumb, the whole tool wants to spin in your hand. I tested this by holding one side only of my Wave, and had the same problem. The best I've come up with was while cutting strapping, I popped the blade out partway with one hand, and let the cutting stroke open and lock the blade. To the extent that it's a pain to open, it's unavoidable for this form factor of knife. Bashing face: I haven't actually used it yet. The tool is under an inch square, and under a quarter pound, so I doubt I'll be pounding in nails with it. However, this does seem like it would be an improvement over whacking stuff with a closed fist, or with any other pocket tool that's not made for whacking. The bad: Scissors: they can be opened and closed with one hand, but they just feel cheap and ill-thought. The opening is just bizarre, the angle of opening seems weird, the cutting action isn't smooth, the spring loaded return isn't smooth. Cutting paper, it's hard to tell if you're cutting, because the drag on the blades is so much. These are about the same closed size as the Wave scissors which are so much nicer in every way. These are really the only thing that are deficient in an obviously fixable way, and it's glaringly obvious.

Gets a bad rap from smoothbrains who don't know how to attach a pocket clip. There's a cheap one on Amazon and with some a simple peened pin holds well. It isn't advertised but it fits a bonus double sided driver bit from wiha, and a tooth pick or victorianox pen under the scissors. Spring tension is low but it doesn't matter. It's small, light, and every tool is good quality. None of this junk you get on other small tools.

I carried this around for a while, always offering it, "hey, that cheese looks non-partitioned", "kids, get back!", "Wait while I rinse this multi tool off here". It never came in handy, but it was a pretty lightweight knife that caused no trouble and was available. Could be sharper. I don't think I will use this as my EDC. I don't have an EDC. Just stuff I forget to take out of my pockets and gets me into trouble at airports. BUT ANYWAY: DECENT!