News — EDC

submitted by Mon Garcia The best tool is the one you have on you when you need it, and week’s Fix-it Friday features a compact and affordable multi-tool that carries like a pocket knife, making it easy to bring in a pack, clip to your pocket, or hang off your belt loop. The Gerber Crucial packs eight useful features in its 5.5” frame, providing the essential tools for daily tasks, while offering great portability with its size and carry options. Its curved, ergonomic handles open up to needle-nose pliers with a wire cutting section, while themselves neatly tucking away other...

submitted by Mon Garcia For Torch Thursday, we take a look at the Armytek Tiara A1 V2, a right-angle, multi-purpose flashlight that doubles as a headlamp and an easy to carry EDC pocket light. Its Cree XP-L LED produces a pleasant warm white tone that pushes out a max of 560 lumens on Turbo in this warm white configuration. The simple UI cycles easily through multiple output levels, including two different Firefly modes that help preserve night vision and give this light a runtime of 90 days off a regular AA battery. It can also use 14500 li-ion rechargeables for...

submitted by Mon Garcia As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. Keeping safe and healthy during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic has led preparation-minded EDC folk to seek out new solutions to help them adapt. RovyVon, best known for their innovative and highly functional compact flashlights, have come up with a design that could help give you an extra level of protection by putting a way to kill or render viruses inactive right in the palm of your hand. The Angel Eyes E700U combines a powerful quad-LED setup at the front with the germicidal function of...

submitted by Jason GRIP6 Men’s Ninja Belt Ray-Ban RB3162 SOG Blink Dan Henry 1970 42mm Apple iPhone SE Recycled Firefighter front pocket wallet #EverydayCarry #EDC

As mentioned on our last social media update, I’ve been posting more on social media. First, it was because I was encouraged to post more by an industry friend, but then I started getting a little more into it. I once had in mind to use the ToolGuyd forum as a catchall for little tool observations, notes, and comments that typically don’t make it into regular ToolGuyd post content, but I never got around to it. I’ve been finding Instagram to be convenient for these things. It doesn’t cause much of a distraction, and I’ve been finding it to be...