LEATHERMAN
TOOLS
Worldwide,
millions of Leatherman multi-purpose tools are gripping and crimping and filing
and cutting in places as far flung as the South Pole and the Australian Outback,
even in space! Not only did they invent the category, they have also sold more
multi-tools than anyone else. Ever. The originator. The
innovator. Leatherman sets the standards in the multi-tool world. No one else
can say that.
In 1975, Tim Leatherman
was on a "low-budget" trip through Europe. He got fed up with his standard "scouter's
knife." It just wasn't much help on old hotel plumbing and his unreliable car.
What he really needed was a compact pocket knife with full-size pliers, but
no such tool existed. "I made notes of what I really needed," says Leatherman.
"When I returned to the United States, I went to work in my garage and started
designing a new kind of tool—one that would replace the knife with something
more useful." He says he was "trying to build a pocket tool that met not only
my needs, but the needs of others as well." Tim spent the next eight years using
his engineering background to design such a tool. In 1983, after working with
hundreds of prototypes, he and Steve Berliner founded Leatherman Tool Group,
Inc. and began production of the original LEATHERMAN® Tool, known as the PST™.
