Leatherman

Skeletool CX, Paradise

$99.95

Riley's range-bag multitool, in the teal-and-coral Paradise colour. Pliers, a real blade, a bit driver, and it opens a beer.

The Skeletool is Leatherman's stripped-down tool, seven implements and five ounces, and the CX is the version with the better blade: 2.6 inches of 154CM stainless, straight edge, thumb-hole opener, locking, black PVD. The rest is needlenose and regular pliers with replaceable wire and hard-wire cutters, a large bit driver that takes Leatherman's flat double-ended bits and stores one in the handle (Phillips #1 and #2, and quarter- and three-sixteenths-inch flat come with it), and a carabiner that is also the bottle opener. Four inches closed, six open, half an inch thick, with a pocket clip. Paradise is a teal Cerakote frame with a coral scale; the same tool comes in Onyx, OD Green, Nightshade, Verdant, Aurora, Nocturnal, Sandstorm and plain black-and-stainless. Made in Portland, Oregon, 25-year warranty. Sheath sold separately.