![]() The Sheffield has never actually been near magma, nor do magical rings actually exist.Ģ. – $14.00 price tag compared to the $87.00 Leatherman Waveġ. The Sheffield Outdoorsman #12007’s key features: The important thing is that it still functions like the day I opened it up, except for the smell. It cuts flesh like butter (beef, venison, poultry, etc.) and the pliers substitute perfectly well for a fork when dinnertime comes, but best of all: it has never, ever been cleaned. It has built dry-ice bombs, Pringles-can roman candles it’s been the primary surgical device used in countless emergency procedures (that bone-saw comes in real handy sometimes), and if you built a ladder from all the cheese it has sliced, you could paint a real tall house. It has been dropped out of a moving vehicle at 55 mph, soaked in camping fuel and set ablaze, and retrieved a magical golden ring from a pool of hot liquid magma. It has opened hundreds of beers without a complaint, made scrap-metal of countless tuna-cans, and spent 36 hours completely immersed in Goobers (peanut butter + jelly + a single jar = one fantastic idea) without suffering in the slightest. Since then, The Sheffield has changed my life, and more importantly, my opinion of lard-asses in general. This was no sleek, aerodynamic, ergonomic, multi-use machine that I had opened up but a clunky, red, heavy, and squarish lard-ass of an all-in-one tool kit. Imagine my surprise when on Christmas morn I found this…this…Sheffield in my stocking. This was right around the time of the big Leatherman boom, when everybody and their grandma started sporting a Micra on their keychain, or a Wave on their belt. It was sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, about 10 years ago, that it occurred to me that I needed some sort of multi-purpose tool that I could take with me everywhere - so I asked my Dad for a Leatherman.
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