Customer Reviews

Tool Logic SLP2 Tactical Folding 1/2 Serrated Knife With LED Flashlight, Magnesium Fire Starter and Signal Whistle, Silver

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2 star:		(1)
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I've owned and traded over a hundred high-quality knives over thirty years, most often custom-make and priced today at a bare minimum of $300. But it seems that factory produced knives are making great strides, with this model as an example.

My opinion, this is an excellent combination knife and tool for its purpose. Grind and steel are excellent. Liner lock is ideal for its function. LED is amazingly tiny and functional. Grip and finish details are nice. Plastic components are good material.

I have only one ironic criticism. The stainless alloy in the blade does not provide an adequate spark from the magnesium rod. A lower grade steel sparks far better. It's not a fundamental problem, just something the owner needs to know so they can carry a short piece of hacksaw blade or some other odd piece of steel to work the firestarter.

This is great to throw in the back pack, the hunting vest or glove compartment. While I wouldn't use this as my primary, go-to knife, it is well built and keeps a good edge. What makes it valuable is the LED light (which is amazingly bright), emergency whistle and the firestarter stick - all in a nice, compact combo knife package.

Good price - lots of value - great for your bug out emergency kit.

Nice quality blade, bright led flash, and of course, the firestarter, which seems durable (thick bar).
The whistle is kinda hokey- wouldn't provide a loud enough sound as compared to some of the inexpensive survival whistles already out there, but a neat concept, and there if needed.
The flashlight uses little batteries I've never seen before, I have yet to see if hard to find, but I'm sure they're out there.

Additional Edit 12/23/07- Bought the little watch batteries (4) as a backup for later, almost as expensive as the device they're meant for, and the little plastic sleeve they fit into seems to be a single use item, so we'll see................

Good cutting edge on the blade, I was impressed. Maybe not top-of-the-line, according to some people, but far better than any pocket knife I have ever had.

Somewhat tricky to open one-handed, you have to practice if you don't want to fumble. Impossible to close one-handed, but that is probably on purpose, it locks open very steadily.

I haven't lost the attachment yet, although it HAS fallen out a few times, but I expect to sooner or later. The flashlight is cute, but turns on sometimes because it gets turned. The flint DOES strike sparks, but you'd probably have to get some serious tinder to make use of that fact!

For backpacking I used to bring 2 keylights, a survival knife and a magnesium bar. Now I am switching to one keylight and this SLP2 Pro only, plus one set of backup batteries. The folding knife, magnesium bar and whistle work great. The design is pretty impressive, lightweight and you can carry safely on your pocket. It's a must inside the tent at night.

I ordered first the SL3, but then I realized that for some more bucks I could have the SLP2 with integrated LED light and save some more space/weight in the backpack. I returned the SL3 to Amazon which refunded me in full except the handling fee since the product was not defective.

The flashlight and knife are nice, and I like the idea of combining multiple functions into one tool, but I could not get any sparks out of the firestarter. I don't doubt that with enough force, it will generate sparks, but the same can be said of banging two rocks together. I will look for a firesteel that makes sparks a bit more reliably.

This is the second one of these that I have bought, I first bought the same knife in the black finish to give to a friend. I liked it so much I bought one for myself! It is a little wider than a "normal" pocket folding knife but it has more to it than a regular knife too. The blade comes to you already sharpened, the flashlight is already good to go and the whistle is LOUD!! I haven't had any problems with the flashlight falling out, the O-Ring that keeps it in place is really tight, takes a bit of effort to push in and take out which isn't a bad thing and if it were to wear out you should be able to find a replacement without a problem. I have used the fire starter a couple of times and the sparks that come off it (if you do it right) would definitely help with lighting a fire so don't forget to pack this when you go camping! It comes in a small metal box with the foam cut out on the inside for you to store it, nice presentation if you wanted to purchase this as a gift as I originally did.

Overall, I feel that this was a good purchase. Nice knife, good presentation, great value for the money.

if you wish to find replaceable batteries for this you can go to a store and buy the watch batteries, this will be expensive however, if you go on ebay you can find them from a ebay store called handy nik naks they sell the batteries and also sell flints and other inserts for this knife just search for them

Bought one of these and struck the flint twice and it broke off. Returned the knife and got another, just in case it was some sort of fluke to have it break so easily. The second knife flint did the exact same thing and I knew then that I couldn't trust the quality of this item to help save my life.

Better off with a good quality knife, a Swedish Steel and a seperate whistle... Don't forget means to make a shelter and acquire water, so as to fulfill the first needs to satisfy the rule of 3s (minutes without oxygen/hours of exposure/days without water/weeks without food). Some would argue that it should be a rule of 4s, but you get the point...

I bought this tool 3 or four months ago and it has been an EDC ever since. Its been dropped a few times and for the most part has really held up well except for one thing.. I dropped it one time and (2) small pieces fell out that later turned out to be internal whistle parts (very minor and not used anyway personally).

After making good use of mainly the blade and flashlight I have been very pleased as to the quality for the price.

ONE WORD OF CAUTION with the knife blade though. I was showing the tools multiple features to a friend and had the blade open then pulled the flashlight/striker tool out... everything was good until I went to push the striker back into place. The blade punctured the palm of my hand as the striker seated back in place. LESSON learned here.. CLOSE THE BLADE when replacing the flashlight / striker tool. Seriously.

Again the tool is well made, the recommended batteries are still going strong and the blade is still very sharp!