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I carry multi tools every day, and they do get used for something just about every single day. I got my first SOG multi tool in 1991 and was hooked on the use. Over the years my son and I have gone through quite a few Leathermans and Gerbers that just don't seem to have near the quality of steel as my old SOG. In our case the wire cutters often get a work out when we have to clear old wire away from fence corners while searching for boundary corner stakes. My old SOG, even with the sideways flip out pliers, still has almost perfect cutter surfaces after cutting hundreds of pieces of barber wire, but the Gerbers and Leathermans seem to pit, roll or dull after only a few dozen cuts. I stopped carrying the SOG a few years ago, partly due to the flip out design of the pliers, but mainly due to just being downright sentimental and wanting to make it last a lifetime. I probably could have saved a lot of money over the years if I had just bought us each a more modern SOG tool at about twice the cost of the others. Unfortunately, just like most other manufacturers, SOG also has a line of china made junk now too.