If your a tool junky, then i'm just crazy.

Lets see I have or had (and i'm sure I missed a few):
Charge Ti
Surge
2 Old Waves (one was a gift from Tim Leatherman, oddly they are both slightly different)
Kick (with clip)
Blast
4 Juice models (Pro, KF4, CS4, KF4 Gray)
Original PST
PST II
Crunch
Sideclip
Micra (which I turned into a single sided tool)
Super Tool
3 Squirts (P4 and 2 S4s)
2 Swiss Tools (BSA Model)
Swiss Tool Spirit (on the way)
Gerber Suspension
Gerber Compact Sport
Gerber 600
Gerber Recoil
Sog Switchplier
Sog Powerlock
Sog Pocketplier
As well as a bunch of cheap knock-offs
I also hae the tool kits, clips, sheaths, you name it.

The ones I like the most are the Charge Ti, Surge, Juice KF4, old wave, and Sideclip. The Gerber Suspension I just bought and I don't think there is a better tool out there for the price, I really like that one now too. The worst two are the automatics. The Sog doesn't open all the way all the time and I could break it if I sqeeze too hard and the Gerber has basically useless tools in it and the pliers don't open very much. I'm not a big fan of the Powerlock either for a few reasons.

OK, OK -- I'll fess up. I omitted my original SOG Toolclip, 2 Micras, 9 SAKs, 2 Coast Mini-Pliers tossed into the consols of cars, and I have no idea how many PSTs and Micra I have given to folks I thought needed them. My ex-wives were/are bottomless pits for tools and flashlights.

We aren't bad - yet. I used to practice law with Bill. Bill is a very prepared, very anal-retentive guy. He and his wife went down to the coast to fish one weekend, and when they came back, somebody had 'accessed' his garage, backed up a truck or trailer and cleaned him out.

Tools, fishing stuff -- salt, fresh, and all -- reloading gear. Bill was so anal-retentive that he had a complete computer inventory of the contents, with pictures. Mind you, they never even got into the house proper -- it was alarmed. Final inventory: $120,000.00, more or less. State Farm actually paid him. Bill spent the entire amount restoring himself. God, he had fun.

It adds up.

Now Paul, if you have not already, you really don't want to discover Swedish/Scandinavian/Finnish knives and tools. I've got a $1,000 knife, but i'm a sucker for 10 good $10.00 knives.

That's just plier type multi-tools, I have shoe boxes full of SAKs, a glass cabinet full of Benchmades, Spydercos, CRKs, and others, and an armoire full of flashlights. Right now i'm on a Surefire/Flashlight kick, so I got a few on order. I am pretty good with money on everything else except for tools/knives/flashlights. It started out years ago looking for the perfect one of each, I still haven't found it. I'm starting to think manufactures could have built the perfect one years ago, but figured out that if they did they would have nothing left to sell. <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

BTW, Bill had the right idea. When I started getting pretty bad with this stuff I bought a video camera and took a video inventory of what I have. When I get something new I add to it. I never figured out the total, but I know I could have bought myself a nice sports car by now. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Paul810, I am also a gear junkie, geardo and gear queer. I have a Leatherman old Wave, ChargeTI, Squirt P4 on my keyring and a Kick. I bought the Kick because it was the cheapest one I found while in Florida visiting relatives. I dont check luggage so I bought it as soon as plane landed. I had a Radio Shack giftcard and bought the Leatheman below. It is a special one made only for Radio Shack, for working on electronice.

Whoops, I forgot I have one of them in my tool kit, I bought it when I was working on the remote control driving lights on my truck. <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I think I need to figure out how to sell stuff on E-bay. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

That's probably because the only one I played with in a store was the Swisstool. It was much more heavy.

Frankie

Actually I have one multi-tool but it's not with pliers, it's a SAK Exporer model that I got as a gift. I thought about buying a sheath for it and also buy a sheath to put a real single needle nose plier but it would be too cumbersome for everyday carry. Actually I'm ready to pay for the compactness of it since I'm going to carry it primarily in the city.

Frankie

Multi-Tools are all about personal preferences.

I havent found the perfect tool yet, and each design has weaknesses/strengths in different situations.

I dont like the new Wave because the screw driver bits dont suit my work. I mostly carry the old style wave, but I'm thinking of getting the new Charge Ti, (slowly waring out my 2nd Wave) and modifying a 1/4 hex magnetic bit driver and my common used bits to fit.

I have built up a collection of multi-tools and I carry which ever suits me at the time.

The easiest to use (Mostly) is my Wave and the pliers seem to suit my work best. They are more needle nose like and I can get into finer areas with them.
The best built I have are my Swiss Tools. I have the original style, X model and the new spirit. These are my second choice to carry. I did file the screw driver ends flat on the Swiss Tools, the polished finish (from manufacturer) rounded them a bit so I squared them up a bit (recomended) The Swiss Tools holds the edge on the blade better as well, but I dont like the spirit blade as much. Leatherman have improved their blades, another reason I'm thinking about the Charge.
The sturdiest pliers are on one of my Gerbers, but I would choose the Swiss Tool pliers for best quality.
I now have the Gerber Military Tech. set with 4 interchangable pliers on the 600 model handle and either a Schrade Vice Grip type multi-tool or Leatherman Crunch etc as a quick grab tool bag.
The Gerbers aren't as nice to use, and I dont like their blade, but they are good quality. I was about to buy the 800 Legend, but after a good long play in the store, I picked it to bits and decided to leave it there. (Unusual for me because impulse usually predicts I buy it)
The Swiss Tool polish also made it hard to create sparks from my flint fire starters, so I filed a square edge on the inside edge of the bottle opener. That worked well.
There are others, but I wont go on.
With local knife Laws I use my multi-tools as my primary blade.

Its ended up as a sort of a hobby to find the ultimate Multi-Tool.

My Wave is fine using leather riggers gloves, but all the others I have to take a glove off most of the time.

You need to ask yourself what you want from it. Then try them all and see which one you like.
I would go through all their websites first, then try the ones you think you like.

I would put money on you liking the Wave, but it doesn't hurt to look around, and I'm sure others will tell you there likes/dislikes of them all. I recomend you have a good look at the Swiss Tools though.

Drool I only have two shrade tools, old leathermen, 2 micras, and an american camper multi tool (1st mulit tool I ever owned.) How many multi tools are there does anyone have a listof all the multi tools from Leathermen, gerber, etc..

That would be like counting how many miles across the universe.
Too many to contemplate <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />