The blades are polished, and hollow-ground. The pliers and handles are bead-blasted, and do not show fingerprints. The tool is 100% made of stainless steel.
The handles are held closed and open on the pliers with leaf-springs. All implements lock with a back-lock, which is operated with a leaf spring. The tool is held together with peened pins. Given how much they flex, it is not advised to squeeze too hard. Effectively, when twisting something, they may give and partially fold. With the BuckTool, the handles fold perpendicularly to the direction you squeeze them. With a common butterfly multi-tool, when using the pliers, the handles are squeezed at the opposite direction than they fold. The splay can be further reduced, by squeezing the handles together, as they flex quite a lot. The ergonomics are excellent, thanks to the absolutely rounded handles, and negligible handle splay. The wire-cutters are adequate for everyday tasks. The tips meet to a reasonable point, and the teeth are capable of grabbing, twisting, and pulling. It still has a sharp edge and point that can cut into flesh when closed, due to the excessively strong spring. This is the only implement with a standard nail-nick, which helps with opening it, but only a little. At least it looks like the bottle opener function works. Presumably this did not play a role in winning the "Knife of the Year" award, as it will absolutely mangle a can, and get shrapnel in your food. Next, a combination bottle and can opener. When unscrewing there is no issue, but driving a screw in causes the handles to separate.
The handle orientation may hinder driving screws. Lock-up is positive, and the tips are properly ground to fit into their respective screws. These catches are quite long, compromising the already limited reach of the drivers.
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When the drivers reach about 30°, they will then spring to their half-stop very firmly, often with the side-effect of prying fingernails like a bottle opener removes bottle caps. Both have three tines, but they bite in screws very well, and do not cam out.ĭeploying the drivers requires a strong fingernail to pull against the catches.
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Two Phillips drivers compliment the driver set. A common theme of old-school multi-tools, no flat-head screw could escape them. Next to the combo blade, we find a flat-head, a flat-head, and a flat-head. Similarly, when you then further push the blade to fold it away, once it reaches about 35°, it will snap closed, in a second attempt to ruin your evening. Once you press the locking leaf spring to disengage the lock and give a blade a slight nudge, it will spring to its half-stop stage, and your fingers better be out of the way. This does not matter all that much when opening the blades, but it is very useful when closing them. The lock is solid, and there was never any worry of either blade unlocking by accident.Īs with all implements, the blades have a half-stop. The curves of the handles act like the palm-swell of a knife handle, filling my large hands beautifully, and combined with the wonderfully rounded-off edges, there are no hotspots whatsoever, no matter how hard I squeeze. Instead of a plain edge blade and a fully serrated blade, to accommodate different needs, it seems like an irritating redundancy to have serrations on both.Īlso, no nail-nicks were cut on the first production run of these.Įrgonomics are excellent. A peculiar pair of blades, considering the norm. Opening the handles, we can find the blades, one combo edge, and one fully serrated. Its handles do pivot away from each other in a butterfly multi-tool fashion, although along the other axis, much like a side-winder butterfly knife.Īlong the handles, we can see pictograms of the implements, to allow the user to locate which handle stores the implement they are after.Īlso, the pliers have indentations in the arrangement of dice faces, from no dots, up to six, which are related to production runs. Also its handles would each pivot 180°, thus 360°, to go from closed to open. New ones (aka unused) can be a little expensive, and used ones can vary greatly in price and condition.Īn innovative design for its time, the BuckTool 360 was named as such because it was a tool, made by Buck. No stores stock these anymore, although they can still be found occasionally. Patent No 5,267,366 have been licensed to Buck Knives by SOG Specialty Knives and Tools. Indentations on pliers, related to production runĬlaims relating to the angle of the pliers handle pivot pins in U.S. Pliers needle-nose, not spring loaded, integrated wire-cuttersĬombo blade drop point, hollow grind for plain edge, chisel grind for serrations
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