A couple of readers just bought this Gerber Prybrid utility knife and pry bar multi-tool from Amazon, and so I took a closer look.
The good news is that Amazon has a limited time deal on this compact multi-tool, but the bad news is that it’s a flash sale, which raises the urgency level quite a bit.
I bought a Gerber Prybrid a few years ago and wasn’t a fan of the blade change design. From recent comments, it seems that either Gerber improved it, I got a dud, or maybe my thumbs are too dainty.
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Amazon’s reviews seem to be overwhelmingly positive, and so it seems my slight dissatisfaction with the blade change design isn’t widely shared.
Features include a sliding utility knife that works with standard blades, cord-cutting notch, bottle opener, pry bar, wire stripper, small and large slotted screwdrivers, nail puller, and a lanyard hole.
Right now only the blue color, shown above, is being discounted. It’s a couple of dollars less than what I paid over 4 years ago – this seems like a good deal.
Deal Price: $16.47
As mentioned, this a flash sale. Amazon says that you get free refund or replacement thru January 31st. For limited time and quantity deals like this, you know my motto – buy first, think it through later. It’s easier to return an order than to wait around hoping the same deal pricing returns.
Maybe the next deal will be on a different color option.
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Jim Metzger
I am not a fan of cutting tools with sharp bits at each end.
I’d also like to know how many bottle openers we all need?
MM
Speaking of bottle openers, before the “crown cap” was invented, there were different types of closures used on bottles, and these had their own special tools. If you browse antiques you will come across old tools for opening these. One of them was called a “champagne hook”. Google used to work for that search but now that it is terrible all that search brings up is champagne-colored coat hooks. But the tool I’m talking about was a short curved knife with a very thick serrated blade, used to cut away the cords used to tie corks onto a bottle. Another common tool looked like a pair of diagonal cutters with a brush built into one of the handles. This was also used to remove the closure from a champagne bottle.
Matt_T
Google still works if you force it. Sucks what used to only be needed for tricky searches is now required for all. Anyways paste the following into the search bar:
“champagne hook” knife -coat -towel -robe
Quotes are exact phrase. The minuses exclude those words.
MM
I’m aware, I was just taking the opportunity to complain. Exactly like you said those extra commands used to be something you only had to use every once in a while but now it seem to be so common. And it seems to be affecting other sites too. I’ve found that over the last couple months that same kind of thing is necessary for browsing Ebay without getting a zillion false positives. Etsy has actually disabled the ability to use the minus sign to exclude things from their searches, which means that I use it a lot less now than I used to.
I would give a lot for web searches to go back to the old-school strict boolean types I remember from old library catalogs–the kind where if you misspell a word you get zero hits–because ever increasing number of false-positives and AI misunderstandings are incredibly frustrating.
KokoTheTalkingApe
Well In truth only one end is sharp.
You’re right that bottle openers show up everywhere. I can’t remember the last time I needed one either. But I guess it’s an easy tool to add to doodads like this one, so why not?
Christopher
Amazon also currently has a deal on the Prybar multi tool that uses #11 blades (like an exacto knife) in both blue and green.
https://www.amazon.com/Gerber-Prybrid-Utility-Knife-Pocket/dp/B084CXY3DT/