Genuinely the most useful review of the PP I’ve seen. I found it searching for a legal carry mod - thanks for making this. Also like the magnet and thumb studs - nice.
thanks man appreciate the comment! and yeah i have this on me every single day i find it a lot more pocketable then the wave ect. however i really do want the new leatherman arc :P
no worries mate and thank you appreciate it. yeah im pretty awkward sometimes especially on here. it takes a lot of attempts but enjoy the finished product lol
yeah mate if you cant get hold on the thumb things just whittle out a bit of wood or anything and superglue in i love my power pint got mine in my pocket atm
Thanks for this. I love the size of it but have hardly carried it due to the locking blades. Went and modded it straight after watching this vid. Worked exactly as you said, and now it can live in my bag that goes pretty much everywhere with me. Cheers!
arhhh thats ace mate! yeah theres a few knifes and multitools i want to make uk legal carry but i dont want to mess up and do what i did to the scissors. did you manage to do them without any issues?
@@Phantomedc1 Just kept grinding a tiny bit and then checking if it was still locking, over & over. Wanted to take off the bare minimum in the hope that there’d still be some resistance to stop it closing too easily. It’s perhaps a little lighter than I would normally like but the blade shapes help with that. The wharncliffe and sheep’s foot always feel a little safer on a slip joint. I’ve modded a few Opinels and made a no.8 UK legal. Reshaped the blade making it just under 3 inch and popped the locking collar off. You need to be careful on any stabbing tasks but slicing is absolutely fine. And if you ever doing something where it really needs to be locked, you can just snap the collar straight back on.
Use a small strong magnet on the the inside of the handles, this will keep it locked in your pocket but also acts as a locking mechanism for the bitholder. It makes using it a 100x better!!
Brilliant review mate, I am looking at options to Uk legal this. It's a really challenging mod because of the construction. It's a shame there isn't more of a clear cut way of doing it.
Yo! I used to have a leatherman style ps which ive unfortunately lost. I bought it for its lack of a blade being from the UK like yourself. Would you happen to have any recommendations? I dont really see anything else that was like it on the market. That tool saved me with little things many times!
Thanks for the review! I've been carrying a gerber armbar for about a year in pocket but I've found i need pliers from time to time. I hate carrying anything heavy so this may be my best option or I've even looked at the nextool mini sailor.
I've got one of these coming in the post. planning to keep it hidden in my bike saddle tube in trips and had an idea for a mod, when the pliers are closed, I thought to file the end point into a hexagon shape for the first 3 or 4 millimeters to make an Alan key. this would then also work to some extent in lager Alan 'holes' as with the compound leverage gearing you can apply outward pressure, so might be able to do light screwing of Alan bolts from I guess 4 mil and up. The angle would get a bit wrong on bigger ones but I reckon it would still be useful
hello mate yeah it will be perfect in the saddle tube. and thats a good idea to be fair will need to be patient but i think that would work you will have to record it and let me know how you get on :)
hello buddy yes here is the link for the file for them. i think you might have to scale them down as they wasnt a tight fit bit a tiny bit of superglue did the trick perfect for me ... www.thingiverse.com/thing:5257700
The length and the (now) slip jointing is great, but I think UK law expects folders to be two hand opening - I may be wrong, but the one hand opening feature might be a problem. As a disabled person, I would like one hand opening to be allowed - as it is in some US states - as some disabilities make it difficult or unsafe to open a normal folder; e.g; an amputee with only one hand. In my case, I have two hands, but I sometimes struggle to open a knife with two hands while standing and I don't want to sit down, open my knife and then walk across the room with an open blade, simply because I might fall. When I helped with stock for a book shop I used a very small locking knife with the simplest lock mechanism - a piece of spring steel that slips into place when the knife is fully open. I adjusted the screw (that was the pivot) so I could open the knife one handed and thus I was able to get my balance and hold onto something - a shelf or the book boxes themselves - and then open my knife and use it as a box cutter. I made sure it was carried in a bag and relatively securely, but I would not risk making it an EDC. Thankfully, I never had to defend my having it on me. The recent development of small and relatively cheap multi-tools means I now have a tool with a non-locking box cutter - a Gerber Dime. It is nowhere near a great multi-tool and the scissors are cr*p, but it does that job as well as giving me a small set of pliers. However, having retired, I don't really need it as I once did.😀
@@gvertm3158 nope, you CAN indeed carry a penknife, but the requirements are ; blade length less than 3 inches; when open total length less than 6 inches; non locking.
Cool review. I've modded several of my multi tools and pocket knives to be UK carry legal. Also sometimes just modified them to add or remove particular tools to them to get them the way i want them. I've shown a simple non locking mod on my leatherman wingman on my channel
@@Phantomedc1 oh mate preaching to the choir there. I dropped my phone in the bath and had 400 things going on in my life. I resorted to banging out 8 review uploads yesterday on the world's cheapest replacement smartphone
Genuinely the most useful review of the PP I’ve seen. I found it searching for a legal carry mod - thanks for making this. Also like the magnet and thumb studs - nice.
thanks man appreciate the comment! and yeah i have this on me every single day i find it a lot more pocketable then the wave ect. however i really do want the new leatherman arc :P
Thank you so much for this!!
Also I get the anxiety thing, good on you for doing your best. You come across really confident so.. keep it up! :)
no worries mate and thank you appreciate it. yeah im pretty awkward sometimes especially on here. it takes a lot of attempts but enjoy the finished product lol
Bought this didn't realise it was locking. Managed to mod thanks to this video. Just need those little plastic bits
yeah mate if you cant get hold on the thumb things just whittle out a bit of wood or anything and superglue in i love my power pint got mine in my pocket atm
Thanks for this. I love the size of it but have hardly carried it due to the locking blades. Went and modded it straight after watching this vid. Worked exactly as you said, and now it can live in my bag that goes pretty much everywhere with me. Cheers!
arhhh thats ace mate! yeah theres a few knifes and multitools i want to make uk legal carry but i dont want to mess up and do what i did to the scissors. did you manage to do them without any issues?
@@Phantomedc1 Just kept grinding a tiny bit and then checking if it was still locking, over & over. Wanted to take off the bare minimum in the hope that there’d still be some resistance to stop it closing too easily. It’s perhaps a little lighter than I would normally like but the blade shapes help with that. The wharncliffe and sheep’s foot always feel a little safer on a slip joint.
I’ve modded a few Opinels and made a no.8 UK legal. Reshaped the blade making it just under 3 inch and popped the locking collar off. You need to be careful on any stabbing tasks but slicing is absolutely fine. And if you ever doing something where it really needs to be locked, you can just snap the collar straight back on.
Great video. I also like the test run at the end.
thanks buddy :)
I carry both the Leatherman micra (the scissors are the best of any multi tool), and the Powerpint, mainly for the pliers, and wire cutters.
Use a small strong magnet on the the inside of the handles, this will keep it locked in your pocket but also acts as a locking mechanism for the bitholder. It makes using it a 100x better!!
Brilliant review mate, I am looking at options to Uk legal this. It's a really challenging mod because of the construction. It's a shame there isn't more of a clear cut way of doing it.
Yo! I used to have a leatherman style ps which ive unfortunately lost. I bought it for its lack of a blade being from the UK like yourself. Would you happen to have any recommendations? I dont really see anything else that was like it on the market.
That tool saved me with little things many times!
Thanks for the review! I've been carrying a gerber armbar for about a year in pocket but I've found i need pliers from time to time. I hate carrying anything heavy so this may be my best option or I've even looked at the nextool mini sailor.
yeah its deffo my go to multitool at the moment mate! its that perfect balance of not to big and heavy but got more heft than the squirt and the micra
@@Phantomedc1 I think I'll be ordering one in the black finish. I have a Leatherman wingman but it's also too heavy for me to EDC.
I've got one of these coming in the post. planning to keep it hidden in my bike saddle tube in trips and had an idea for a mod, when the pliers are closed, I thought to file the end point into a hexagon shape for the first 3 or 4 millimeters to make an Alan key. this would then also work to some extent in lager Alan 'holes' as with the compound leverage gearing you can apply outward pressure, so might be able to do light screwing of Alan bolts from I guess 4 mil and up. The angle would get a bit wrong on bigger ones but I reckon it would still be useful
hello mate yeah it will be perfect in the saddle tube. and thats a good idea to be fair will need to be patient but i think that would work you will have to record it and let me know how you get on :)
Where did you get the measurments for the thumb openers? Can you share the 3d file?
hello buddy yes here is the link for the file for them. i think you might have to scale them down as they wasnt a tight fit bit a tiny bit of superglue did the trick perfect for me ... www.thingiverse.com/thing:5257700
@@Phantomedc1 Thanya for your response !
@@xubanohx no worries my friend! :D
The length and the (now) slip jointing is great, but I think UK law expects folders to be two hand opening - I may be wrong, but the one hand opening feature might be a problem.
As a disabled person, I would like one hand opening to be allowed - as it is in some US states - as some disabilities make it difficult or unsafe to open a normal folder; e.g; an amputee with only one hand. In my case, I have two hands, but I sometimes struggle to open a knife with two hands while standing and I don't want to sit down, open my knife and then walk across the room with an open blade, simply because I might fall. When I helped with stock for a book shop I used a very small locking knife with the simplest lock mechanism - a piece of spring steel that slips into place when the knife is fully open. I adjusted the screw (that was the pivot) so I could open the knife one handed and thus I was able to get my balance and hold onto something - a shelf or the book boxes themselves - and then open my knife and use it as a box cutter. I made sure it was carried in a bag and relatively securely, but I would not risk making it an EDC. Thankfully, I never had to defend my having it on me. The recent development of small and relatively cheap multi-tools means I now have a tool with a non-locking box cutter - a Gerber Dime. It is nowhere near a great multi-tool and the scissors are cr*p, but it does that job as well as giving me a small set of pliers. However, having retired, I don't really need it as I once did.😀
So in the UK you can't carry a penknife in your pocket?😳 What an absurdity😂
@@gvertm3158 nope, you CAN indeed carry a penknife, but the requirements are ; blade length less than 3 inches; when open total length less than 6 inches; non locking.
Cool review. I've modded several of my multi tools and pocket knives to be UK carry legal. Also sometimes just modified them to add or remove particular tools to them to get them the way i want them. I've shown a simple non locking mod on my leatherman wingman on my channel
cheers mate ill have to have a look! there's a few mods i want to do to make some of my knifes and multitools uk legal carry
@@Phantomedc1 awesome mate! Should make a cool video
@@PMCKnivesAndTools i must admmit ive fell off the wagon latley mate takes me so long to edit and make but i do want to get a few more vids done
@@Phantomedc1 oh mate preaching to the choir there. I dropped my phone in the bath and had 400 things going on in my life. I resorted to banging out 8 review uploads yesterday on the world's cheapest replacement smartphone
Good review
UK knife laws laws seem to have the same logic as banning gun safeties because most guns used in crimes have safeties.