Leatherman PST

“This fault has not been fixed. The all-time-classic Leatherman PST has the same issue but ten times worse and nobody complained back then because people had different standards. The blade issue can be dangerous if the handle containing the blade is facing down towards your fingers, fighting against gravity and out of your sight. If the blade is instead pressed against the meat of your thumb then is should be a non-issue, it should stay down without cutting you and it will always be visible. I've memorized where the blade is so it ends up under my thumb meat every single time I open the pliers. You can mod it with magnets but I've found it unnecessary. I'm not certain if such a mod would void the warranty; I'm betting on it being okay but it's just not something I feel like doing to my Bond. Would I take the Bond into a stressful warzone where I'll inevitably make an error that gets me cut by the blade popping out? No, Bond absolutely isn't for those environments but it's great for basic tasks at a leisurely pace. Of all my Leatherman tools I find the Bond the most comfortable to use and hold, but it's obviously a lot slower to operate than models with outside-access blades and such. I've never been cut by my Bond but I have just once been pinched pretty bad by the slipjoint spring. It's a decently strong spring, much stiffer than the old PST from back in the day.”