Leatherman Micra

The Leatherman Micra is one of those invaluable little tools that once you use, you find it hard to live without. Mine was bought for my birthday by my step dad after I kept borrowing his. It is very useful to have in your pocket around the house, especially when trying to open up boxes or packets.

The Features
The Leatherman Micra has the following features:
* Scissors
* Knife (about 4cm blade)
* Tweezers ...
...thing for cleaning them as well
* Flat screwdriver designed to fit Phillips screws
* Extra small screwdriver (useful for those extra small screws)
* Medium screwdriver
* Bottle Opener
* Ruler (inch/metric) (though this is not very easy to use)


As you can see, this knife has all of the features that you are likely to need for general use around the home. The knife also has a loop for attaching ... more

The Leatherman Micra is one of those invaluable little tools that once you use, you find it hard to live without. Mine was bought for my birthday by my step dad after I kept borrowing his. It is very useful to have in your pocket around the house, especially when trying to open up boxes or packets.

The Features
The Leatherman Micra has the following features:

• Scissors
• Knife (about 4cm blade)
• Tweezers (useful for splinters)
• Nail file with a hook thing for cleaning them as well
• Flat screwdriver designed to fit Phillips screws
• Extra small screwdriver (useful for those extra small screws)
• Medium screwdriver
• Bottle Opener
• Ruler (inch/metric) (though this is not very easy to use)

As you can see, this knife has all of the features that you are likely to need for general use around the home. The knife also has a loop for attaching to a keyring

The Style
There are various different colours that the knife can come in. The main style is stainless steel. Mine is more of a grey colour. On the internet, I have seen blue ones, red ones, green ones and black ones. I am aware that there are other colours aswell. The coloured and the grey ones are basically the stainless steel one with a cover over it, as it is slightly thicker. The cover is metal though and will not come off. My step dad has the stainless steel one and I have the grey one, so as to avoid confusion.

Uses
As I said before, this knife is very useful to carry around the house. I often use it for opening boxes and bags that are around products. The scissors are ideal to cut toe and finger nails, and you can use the file on them after. The screwdrivers are ok, but do not provide enough torque for some applications. The tweezers are great for getting out any splinters. I have not used the bottle opener, as I am not very keen on beer (prefer cider), but it looks pretty standard, so I assume that it will work ok. The ruler is not very good, it is on both halves of the knife, and you have to try to line it up. You can get a general idea of sizes with it though.

Specification
The following figures are for the basic stainless steel knife. The coloured ones are ever so slightly bigger and a tiny bit heavier (because of the metal cover)

• Size:2.5 inches / 6.35cm closed
• Weight:1.75 ounces / 50 grams

In conclusion, I would highly recommend this knife. It is small, light, tough and extremely useful. It is a bit expensive though at about £25, but I would say it is worth it.

© Matty0501 

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