![]() ![]() While browsing, you may find yourself on the Leatherman USA ( site which has shipping options to South Africa out of the USA. Kindly note that we operate the Leatherman SA web shop ( via our Awesome Tools website ( ) which ships out of our warehouse in Cape Town and the after sales service is handled by Awesome Tools. And over the next decade, they would sell over one million PST multi-tools.īut apart from our story of perseverance and ingenious design, we never forget our purpose or our goal: To build tools that equip all types of people to help people save the day and to build tools for real life. In the first year of business, Tim and Steve hoped to sell 4,000 tools instead, they sold 30,000. ![]() Eight years in the making, the PST comprised of 13 different tools and folded up into a five ounce, four inch toolbox. The original Leatherman tool was called the PST, or known as the Pocket Survival Tool. In the spring of 1983, they received their first order for 500 tools from Cabela’s and launched the first Leatherman tool. Until he partnered with his college friend, Steve Berliner, and they founded the Oregon-based Leatherman Tool Group. Neither were interested.įor another three and a half years, Tim faced one rejection letter after another. Knife companies thought his invention was a tool, and tool companies thought it was a gadget. Unfortunately, the companies he approached didn’t bite. With the patent application and prototype in hand, he set off to sell his idea. Instead, it took the next three years to build the prototype he envisioned and file for a patent. When Tim started on the prototype for this new tool, he estimated it would take him a month. On their return to the states, Tim took his “multi-tool” idea, some sketches he made on the trip and got to work. But I kept wishing I had a pair of pliers!”. “I was carrying a scout knife and used it for everything from slicing bread to fixing the car. Tim realized the need for a pliers based, multi-purpose tool. While on a budget trip to Europe in 1975, Tim and his wife Chau constantly came across leaky hotel plumbing and road-side fixes for their cranky Fiat. Tim Leatherman received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Oregon State University. The Leatherman was the first of its kind, creating a category of products that have kept people ready for the unexpected for 35 years. ![]()
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