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Inside The Leatherman Factory: Where Multi-Tool Dreams Are Made

If you’ve got a whatsit that needs tweaking, a screw that could use a good tightening, a doodad in a severe state of jiggifying, perhaps you turn to the Leatherman multi-tool with all its myriad dongles. But these tools don’t come springing fully formed from the toolbox like the answer to your fix-it prayers. There’s a complicated process involved in the making of the gadget and of course, someone is all over that story. [More]