Gerber Dime Pocket Tool 18

Nice little tool for kids. Bought it for my daughters 9 birthday and she loved it.

I can’t tell you how often a day I use this. Robust, built to last abs absolutely wouldn’t be without it.

I just wanted a small multitool to take walking/hiking/camping to cut down the weight of carrying a full sized one I hardly used. The pliers are good enough to take hot metal things out of a fire. The scissors are good enough to cut bandages and the like for first aid. The tweezers will get bramble thorns out of your skin. The blade needed a lot of sharpening but now cuts. The parcel opener and flathead/tiny pry bar are useful bits of metal to have around, you can use a fire steel on part of the parcel opener handle. It's generally handy to have around in the woods, it won't do the job of a full sized multitool but it's compact and weighs less. The loss of one star is because I had to take a file to the end of the pliers, there was a lump of metal sticking up that shouldn't have been there to make them shut right and the blade was as full as a tennis ball when I bought it.

This is very robust piece of kit is well worth the money you spend on it if you want something small all for your EDC and light enough you can carry everyday this is the one for you you I have had 2 before giving one to a friend and unfortunately lost one but I had to buy another

Gerber dime is a small pocket friendly multitool that gets the job done , most of the time ? You have to remember this is a light duty tool ! Your not going to be able to build a Spitfire with this ! I have had ,I think four of these from purchase and lost two but the other two have been replaced at least twice under warranty from defects namely the scissor spring ! It's strange as I have also got the leatherman squirt ps4 ,almost twice the price of the dime and they too have the same weakness of scissor spring bar failures ! The thing to remember is the Gerber Dime is so much cheaper because it's made for Gerber in China ? And this tool I can tell you is not the quality of the leatherman squirt ps4 ,hands down no question about it ! But it is a good little edc multitool to carry on you and I have found it no less handy than the squirt ps4 ! Infact with the package opener it's maybe of more use in general ? Both are plier based tools and the leatherman just blows this away no question about it, that's no supprise as it's what leatherman do best ! The dime does look cool in stealthy black and that feeling you get when you loose something is much less with a dime ? Gerber dime is as said a China offering but you do get the Gerber no quibble warranty that is awesome and Gerber try their best to equal that of leatherman in this area so as said when it breaks just send it back to fiskers (who own Gerber) and you will get sorted ,they have replaced mine two or three times with boxed new ones ! So I have no problem owning Gerber USA multitools To sum up the dime is about half the price of the squirt ps4 ! It's not as well made ,but both have failed with defects too , both have outstanding warranties and I have replaced both without hesitation when needed ! I will mention also that HH have as always provided a stunning purchase experience with a delivery service that puts them in a class of their own

Do not bother with this tool, it's made of the softest metal. I snapped two tools on it with very little force.

Leatherman PS4 £45. Gerber Dime £25. So anyone who's expecting PS4 performance needs to have a quiet word with their expectations. Ok, so I own one PS4 & two Dimes. I use the Dimes much more than the PS4. Why? Because if I break or loose it I just replace it. Also, to me it is not a stand alone tool. It's an EDC that compliments my Swiss Army Knife (Huntsman). My SAK has better blades & scissors, but, and it's a serious but, there are tasks that it can do that my SAK can't. Try extracting a fiddly fuse out of a cars fuse box sometime or picking up a small screw. That is when you will quickly develop an appreciation for the Dimes spring loaded Pliers. Also dead useful for picking up something I'm not certain of. The package opener is fantastic. Screwdrivers are good enough. The scissors are a bit meh, but they only get used on things that I really don't want to blunt my SAK sissors on, like sandpaper. Blades not brilliant but I mostly use it as a scraper as anyway. So should you get one? Yes.

Love my gerber dime had it for 2 years now, and has never let me down, I carry it every day on my keys. Class little tool

I've had my Dime for 15 months now, so I thought I'd do a wee update on my original review. As I expected the paint is coming off on the handles and I've just lost a second screw on the handles, the blade and package opener are mint condition, both hold a good edge, scissors are working fine but the pliers have never been very good from the start, the bottle opener is loose but still works, all ok with file and screwdrivers, I've never used the tweezers. I've used this daily for 15 months and it's still working, if I lost it would I buy another one? Without hesitation, it's a good EDC at a fair price, it's not perfect but perfect costs a lot more!