Gerber Blades 31-000400 Shard Keychain Tool - Clam

by Gerber

Product Description

Pry bar. Small driver. Wire stripper. Medium driver. Bottle opener. Cross driver. Airline safe, No knife blade.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B002RILCQE
• Item model number: 31-000400
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,402 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A failure of a tool., July 23, 2010

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J. Chuang (AL, USA) - See all my reviews
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Gerber would like you to believe that this is a cheaper alternative to Atwoods designs, or smaller version of the artifact. While in pictures, it may appear so, this is far from the case.

How can a one piece metal tool be messed up? what is there to mess up? Well, simply put, it is not machined to any degree of accuracy. While this doesn't matter as much for the prybar and bottle opener, it's quite detrimental to the "screwdrivers"

The phillips head is so poorly machined it will not fit in anything smaller than a deck screw. In short, the only screws that the head can fit, you won't be able to drive for lack of torque. Imagine opening a battery compartment with this phillips- It can't be done.

The "flatheads" are even worse. They want to you believe that the tip of the prybar is also two flatheads-- they're not. They are much too thick to fit into a flathead slot. Only very large slots- Then you run into the problem of torque again. Plus, these two are at an angle, making them quite unusable.

The bottle opener, fortunately, works. But terribly. Because of the angled pry head, it twists as you try to open bottles. And it takes two or three pulls, shifting the opener each time, to actually open a bottle. Servicable, but barely.

Then we have the pry function. The lack of precision machining means you can't get smaller nails. Unfortunately, we have a similar problem-- If you can get the head to grasp, you don't have enough power to pull it out.

So what do you have? a tool that doesn't work. On paper, sounds fine. But in reality, the only thing it can actually do is open bottles- and poorly at that. So no, it's not a lightweight, small tool. It's an expensive excuse for a bottle opener.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great EDC upgrade, August 1, 2011

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If you're looking for some custom made heirloom quality tool for survival in a post-nuclear world, look elsewhere. If you're looking for an basic upgrade to a keychain that currently only has keys on it, or just has a bottle opener on it, then this tool is for you. It's nothing fancy and has a price to match, but it's light weight and opens a bottle cap better than my Leatherman Squirt. Plus, the phillips head screwdriver really works, albeit only for medium and larger sized screw heads. The regular slotted screwdriver works well enough in a pinch also. I haven't used the pry tool yet, but I imagine it too would work well enough when I need it. Best of all, this all comes in a tool that's so small and light you don't really even know it's there! If you care (I don't), be aware that the black finish will start to wear away after a few months of typical key chain use.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars useful tool, November 5, 2011

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Brian Tvenstrup (Hatfield, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a great little keychain tool. It is not quite as useful at the Swisstech keychain tool, but it has one major advantage in that, having no blade, it is not subject to confiscation at security checkpoints (or at least none that I have experienced), which cannot be said for the Swisstech. The black coating also can wear off the surface after extended friction against other keys on a keyring, but it does not appear to affect the utility of the tool in any way.