Isn’t that a dinky little tool.
Best EDC Prybar?
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Yeah, lives in the nylon slip with my Charge and bit kit. Not sure you can get them anymore, I remember searching high and low for this one years ago.
I do like that Fiskars, I may succumb eventually. The FUBAR has a better strike face for hammering but its jaw is too symmetrical. The smaller lower jaw on the Fiskars makes inserting the upper jaw simplerFiskars have their equivalent of a Fubar
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The guy is building EDC kit, not a demolition business 
EOD Breacher bars are good, but silly money now. I use one for everything from weeding between veg rows to lifting inspection covers, great for opening cans and crates.
An equivalent of the McFeelys is available, just seen one on eBay stamped EDCGear.
Which happens to be a place where the OP could quickly bankrupt himself
edcgear.co.uk
EOD Breacher bars are good, but silly money now. I use one for everything from weeding between veg rows to lifting inspection covers, great for opening cans and crates.
An equivalent of the McFeelys is available, just seen one on eBay stamped EDCGear.
Outdoor EDC Pocket wrench ruler multi tools ultra hard stainless steel tool | eBay
Stainless Steel.
www.ebay.co.uk
Which happens to be a place where the OP could quickly bankrupt himself
Prybars
EDC Prybars and pry-tools in titanium and steel. Compact widgy bars, CountyComm EOD Breacher Bars and Rogan EOD and Pocket Tools. Prybars are essential kit for your everyday carry.
edcgear.co.uk
The term of EDC seems to have morphed in some circles to be an inventory for not just dealing with a conventional days occasional inconvenience ( booboo kit , tiny torch and a knife as an example ) but for some a far more extensive ' what if ' list of items to deal with the most improbable situations a fertile mind can conjure.
No disrespect to the OP, one mans ( or womans ) EDC is another WTAF list. I guess subjectively it difficult to draw a line.
I want one of those, where did you get it?
Just ordered two. More for the small ruler than anything else. Fingers crossed it's reasonably accurate.
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I am in the process of making adjustments and adapting the leatherman multi tools, so I might just make something up out of scrap?
Anyway, some modding preview
Anyway, some modding preview
It doesn’t get in the way but is handy when needed. It’s no demo tool but there’s times when you just need to lever something and not risk a key or knife blade.
I do a bit of timber framing at work so a 300mm nail bar/catspaw is pretty much always on my toolbelt.
I got one of the Stiletto titanium nail bars (secondhand) a few years ago and the short end (the right angled end) is quite good ut the long end with the gentle curve just isnt that good at all, needs to be thinner for longer away from the points.
My steel Estwing nail bar is significantly better.
As for Fubars? I don't know anyone I dislike enough to give them one. For what they do, they're too heavy, badly balanced, supposed to work as a hammer but jeez they're numb.
A decent gooseneck crowbar is waaaay nicer to use and I also do quite a bit of shuttering concrete so have a good idea about what a decent bar is like.
As for EDC? I can justify the tools I carry at work, also the ones in my van.
Everyday carry prybar though? Not so much.
I got one of the Stiletto titanium nail bars (secondhand) a few years ago and the short end (the right angled end) is quite good ut the long end with the gentle curve just isnt that good at all, needs to be thinner for longer away from the points.
My steel Estwing nail bar is significantly better.
As for Fubars? I don't know anyone I dislike enough to give them one. For what they do, they're too heavy, badly balanced, supposed to work as a hammer but jeez they're numb.
A decent gooseneck crowbar is waaaay nicer to use and I also do quite a bit of shuttering concrete so have a good idea about what a decent bar is like.
As for EDC? I can justify the tools I carry at work, also the ones in my van.
Everyday carry prybar though? Not so much.
@demographic , Someone with a belt grinder and the right kind of belts can always make that titanium pry bar thinner
My McFeely is in with my Swiss Tool
You are right, where scale and purpose is the issue, I like the Atwood prybaby still and many, various, similar, much cheaper variants; 2-4" length. It is the claw that makes one desirable, also metric/imp. measurements. I've an Atwood on my keys that is also curved to provide better prying leverage.
Without the trace of a smirk, I can say that one cannot overestimate the adaptable facility of a coffee spoon. I have one about me most times and use it for all sorts of things - including occasionally stirring coffee.
Get a bodger too. Or a marlin. Ridiculously useful
But also avoid using folding knives of any kind for prying. Puts the pivot at too much risk. And on the subject of sucking eggs ...
You are right, where scale and purpose is the issue, I like the Atwood prybaby still and many, various, similar, much cheaper variants; 2-4" length. It is the claw that makes one desirable, also metric/imp. measurements. I've an Atwood on my keys that is also curved to provide better prying leverage.
Without the trace of a smirk, I can say that one cannot overestimate the adaptable facility of a coffee spoon. I have one about me most times and use it for all sorts of things - including occasionally stirring coffee.
Get a bodger too. Or a marlin. Ridiculously useful
But also avoid using folding knives of any kind for prying. Puts the pivot at too much risk. And on the subject of sucking eggs ...
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Tiny little pry bar and caplifter.
Works for opening jars of pickled onions, tins of shoe polish and Barbour wax and bottles of beer.
Works for opening jars of pickled onions, tins of shoe polish and Barbour wax and bottles of beer.
looks like a simple flat piece of steel with a lanyard hole on the back and a notch and end sharpened (somewhat) on the working end -- what are the dimensions of it?! looks like something one could cobble up by themselves even in rural central america with minimal tools available...I’ve had a county comm one on my keys for over a decade.
It doesn’t get in the way but is handy when needed. It’s no demo tool but there’s times when you just need to lever something and not risk a key or knife blade.
my leatherman already comes with in-built "ruler" and a hexagonal hole is out of my league (with the tools available), but two holes of different diameters and the material in-between cut off (at least that what it looks like to me on the photo?!
) could be doable at home, too...Similar threads
