Video: Take a Quick and Fascinating Tour of the Leatherman Multitool Factory

Fun fact of the day: the Leatherman multitool company is actually named for its founder, Tim Leatherman. I’d always imagined it being a vision of some hardcore Platonic ideal of a rugged tinkerer with everything at the ready. Kat Bauman and Outlier Solutions took this totally engaging look at the Leatherman factory in Portland, Oregon, and the production and design process of its eponymous tools.

Check out the video below for some history and a look at how these tools are conceived and manufactured:   

Read more from Kat’s visit at Core77: A Visit to Leatherman, in Which I Briefly Become One with Their Production Process