I've gotten to where I don't like the Leatherman tools. Mostly flash. I switched to a Gerber and am very satisfied. I'm also looking at a SOG, but I'm not sure I want to put out the money. If I didn't have the Gerber, I'd buy the SOG. And I always have a SAK, if for no other reason than the toothpick!

Thanks ... I'd never herd of it before.

I'm starting to feel the same. My old Wave is getting warn out, but I havent convinced myself that I really like the new wave or the charge yet. I have a couple of swiss tools that I find I'm carrying more and more, but the old Wave is still my first grab.

You don't care for wine - haven't you just ruled yourself out of the demographic for cork screw useage?

Start planning now -- I'll see you there next year? Lots of folks from Japan, and several from Oz. Go back to
http://www.burningman.com/
and enter australia in the search box in the top right corner. :-)

I couldn't see a use for the corkscrew either. Then I was in the desert one hot summer.

There was a young woman and two guys nearby in the primitive campground. There was something wrong with their car and they didn't have much to camp with. The guys had a blue tarp and about twenty feet of clothesline rope, and they couldn't figure out how to make a sun shade with them. There were two raggedy small tree/shrubs in their campsite, but too far apart to use the rope. The woman comes back and stands watching them, hands on her hips. She looks over at me and rolls her eyes. She marches up to them, picks up the rope and demands her brother's SAK. She pulls up the corkscrew, screws it into the trunk of the nearest shrub, ties one end of the rope to it, stretches it over to the car, and ties it to the inside of the car door. Then she mimes putting the tarp over the rope.

Corkscrew = anchor, when you haven't got an eyebolt handy.

Sue

Well, sure, I mean, yeah... you could do that way. But, you know, it's not how they were going to do it. The right way requires planning, prepartion, a schedule, parts list, preliminary design, maybe a prototype, then...

You forgot the most important .... What colour?

If you see me, it wont be next year <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But I maybe overthere the year after that <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Good point. Color is important. I think we also oughta consider canvas albedo, time of day, lattitude, prevailing wind direction, relative humidity, terrain gradient, soil type, local topography, rope composition and condition, shrub / bush species, age and health (to determine suitablility as temporary anchor point), likely duration of stay, etc.

Civilians think this stuff is easy. Kids, do not try this at home. We're professionals.