Awesome Tools

Designed for professional first responders, but a great tool in any emergency bag, Leatherman’s shears make quick work of gauze, tape, and seatbelts, and can also cut off a ring, break glass, or operate an oxygen tank’s valve. Made from durable stainless steel and glass-filled nylon.

UPKnife’s unique multitool packs a 3-position, bolt-action hybrid tanto blade with OTF operation. Functions include a saw, bottle opener, box wrenches, a 1/4″ bit driver, a wire stripper, and a tungsten carbide glass breaker. Each one is made in the U.S. entirely from stainless steel.

Get rid of those cheap sawhorses, and upgrade to heavy duty steel. ToughBuilt’s folding sawhorses hold up to 1300 lb each and offer support arms that hold 2x4s or 4x4s, adjustable height legs, and side brackets for holding sheet goods. Buy two, and create a work table by inserting 2x4s into their end slots. Sold individually.

This stainless steel folding multitool packs an impressive 30 functions into something you can fit in your pocket. In addition to the usual screwdrivers, pry tools, wrenches, and blade tools, it has a spoke wrench, wire cutter, saw, protractor, firestarter flint, and even a built-in pulley.

This substantial pocket tool is made from durable 6AL4V titanium, and provides three useful functions. It works as a pry bar, nail puller, and bottle opener. Its long handle and scalloped sides are designed to optimize leverage. It has a built-in pocket clip, and comes in antique bronze or stonewashed finishes.

This modular pocket tool set offers 12 functions, including a bottle opener, knife, wrenches, flat and phillips screwdrivers, box opener, cord cutter, and flashlight. The bundle includes a pair of pocket clips, along with paracord zipper pulls. Save 31% in The Awesomer Shop. (WeeLink module shown in video not included.)

Just because you carry a pocket knife doesn’t mean it needs to be bulky or heavy. These days, there are lots of great options made with materials like carbon fiber and aluminum, or with skeletonized frames that reduce weight. Everyday Carry shares their top 12 lightweight knives for 2020.

Carbon13’s nifty keychain tool might just be the smallest knife you can buy. The tiny knife features a double-edged knife that remains safely under a rubber guard until you need it. Available in carbon fiber, titanium, brass, or a mix-and-match combo pack.

CRKT’s convenient lanyard tool makes quick work of starting campfires, with its magnesium spark rod and striking surface. It also doubles as an in-the-field knife sharpener, perfect for putting a new edge on your pocket knife in a pinch.

Upgrade your everyday carry and keep your pocket organized with this complete Keyport Pivot set. Not only does it hold your keys, but this bundle includes the pocket knife blade, mini flashlight, MOCA 10-in-1 multiport, Keyport ID, and an S-Biner. Save 24% in The Awesomer Shop.

Leatherman’s Style PS multitool combines eight functions in a single keychain- and pocket-friendly package. Packing flat and phillips screwdrivers, spring-action pliers, wire cutters, scissors, tweezers and a nail file, but no knife, it’s TSA-compliant too. Available in black or red.

If there’s one thing that belongs on every keychain, it’s a flashlight. Everyday Carry selected 10 great little pocket light sources you’d be happy to have with you the next time you’re fumbling around in the dark looking for the right key or the keyhole. We really dig the design and power of the Prometheus Foursevens Mini MK III.

This folding carabiner-style clip packs a dozen tools, including phillips and slotted screwdrivers, metric and spoke wrenches, a wire cutter, and bottle opener. It’s made from stainless steel, and also comes in a curved variant.

Westmark Germany’s tempered steel tool easily pops open bottles and undoes screw caps, but it can also temporarily seal bottles, preserving carbonation and freshness for those times when you don’t want to finish a bottle all at once.

Sometimes, the blacksmiths at That Works like to make tools and weapons by recycling old metal. In this episode of their “From This to That” series, they take a big old link of a ship’s anchor chain, and transform it into a beautiful hammer with engraved detailing and a copper, silver, and gold inlay.

Loggerhead’s multitool packs in 34 functions in one, with its self-adjusting “bionic wrench” that covers 14 different metric and Imperial sizes, along with a 1/4 driver and 20 bits that stow inside of its handle grips. Its handles are designed to maximize torque, allowing for confident turning of even stubborn nuts and bolts.

This keychain-sized flashlight features a CREE XP-G3 S5 LED that can produce up to 550 lumens of brightness. Its durable polycarbonate body glows in the dark, and its built-in LiPo rechargeable battery is juiced up via a Micro USB connector. Save 19% in The Awesomer Shop.

Keyport’s blade-style multitool combines a bottle opener, flat-blade screwdriver, cord cutter, box opener, scoring tool, hex bit driver, 2″ ruler, and 1/4″, 5/16″, and 3/8″ wrenches. The stainless steel tool works standalone or loads into the Keyport Pivot key holder. The MOCA II adds a pocket clip/handle and a philips driver.

So you’ve got a rusty old hatchet lying around. What do you do with it? You could remove the rust and polish it up, or you could do what Bobby Duke Arts did, and cut it up into smaller pieces and make a shiny new battle axe – albeit one designed for the world’s tiny warrior.

Grim Workshop makes this set of 15 stainless steel tools and survival items, each of which can be loaded into a silencer tag for everyday carry. The dog tags include a bottle/can opener, fishing hooks, arrow, saw, lock picks, wrenches, sewing needles, signal mirror/glow tag, and more. Individual tags available here.

DV8’s unique bottle opener pays tribute to famed A-10 Warthog fighter plane, bearing its menacing teeth at bottle caps this time. Each one is precision CNC machined from a solid billet of aircraft-grade aluminum. Engraving is available direct from DV8 for an extra 10 bucks.

A versatile compact tool for your belt loop or keychain. It packs 4 to 7mm and 5/16″ wrenches, 1/4″ driver, a bottle opener, pry tool, screwdriver, and scoring clip. The XL version gains extra wrench sizes, a ruler, and a nail popper, while the mini version is, well, mini. Available in brass, copper, titanium, and stainless steel.

Omniwall makes strong and versatile storage systems for tools, and this is their best setup. The 8-foot-wide Weekend Warrior kit includes a variety of shelves, hooks, bins, and holders, keeping all of your tools at the ready. It comes in a variety of panel and accessory colors, and an even bigger 12-foot-wide version.