Friday I grabbed my Leatherman like I do a hundred times a day. I needed to straighten a single piece of 9 gauge steel on the corner of a piece of expanded metal. Just a single strand that got turned up. I needed to bend it back down to weld it to the ramp I’m building for my trailer. I had barely closed the plier jaws when one side snapped off. That leatherman wave plus has been on my hip since it came out in 2018. I lost my first and second ones both to belt sheaths that failed. Never broke one before.

I’ve probably reached unconsciously for it 50 times since Friday. It’s on the way to Leatherman for replacement but I may need to join a support group before the new one gets here. I’ve had a Leatherman on my hip since my stepson got me one for Christmas in 1993. That one is somewhere on the banks of the South Fork Koyokuk River in Alaska. Victim of a failed sheath strap.

prayers sent

" Victim of a failed sheath strap" = Planned obsolesced maybe?????

I'm sorry for your loss...

I'd be lost without my Leatherman Wave+. For some reason, I bought 3 of them about 3 years ago. Two in stainless, one in black.