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BEHIND THE LINES MAGAZINE
NEW
– A NEW GENERATION OF MULTI-PURPOSE TOOLS
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After 35 years of producing multi-
customers used the tool, what they
at home in your hand, the FREE
tools and folding knives it’s fair
did and didn’t need in a multi-tool
incorporates the first-of-its-kind,
to say the team at Leatherman
and started designing. With 35
magnetic architecture which makes
know a thing or two about tools!
years of fan insight and feedback
it easier for you to open, handle
But it’s Leatherman customer
incorporated into every tool, the
and close the tools without using
feedback that resulted in the
FREE series represents a new
your fingernails. The magnetic
NEW Leatherman FREE. The
generation of Leatherman multi-
internal system also reduces wear
design team went back to the
purpose tools.
and tear, making FREE tools even
drawing board and looked at how
With an evolved design that feels
THE REVIEWS
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE
GEARJUNKIE.COM
Respected international outdoors,
“In my opinion, this is now the only
"For other Leatherman faithful, it may
technology and men’s magazines
series of multi-tools you should consider.
prove the most innovative tool since
have been overwhelmingly
The entire point of one of these devices
Tim Leatherman's first PST."
favourable in praising the
is to offer convenient, versatile utility,
practicality of the FREE range.
and so by vastly improving the interface,
Check out what some of them
Leatherman has pushed those two
have to say.
things so far forward that the P4 doesn’t just feel like a better multi-tool—it feels like an entirely new solution.” Wes Siler, Outside.
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more durable.
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ISSUE 8 -NOVEMBER 2019
Adam Ruggiero, Gear Junkie
