{"id":3661,"date":"2026-10-16T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leathermay.shop\/?page_id=3661"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:45:39","slug":"the-leatherman-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/the-leatherman-story\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LEATHERMAN STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our Founder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While on a budget trip to Europe in 1975, Tim Leatherman and his wife Chau constantly came across leaky hotel plumbing and road-side fixes for their cranky Fiat. Tim realized the need for a pliers-based multipurpose tool. \u201cI was carrying a scout knife and used it for everything from slicing bread to fixing the car. But I kept wishing I had a pair of pliers!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Tim came back to the states, he took his \u201cmulti-tool\u201d idea and some sketches he made on the trip, and got to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE ORIGINAL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Tim started on the prototype for this new tool, he estimated it\u2019d take him a month. Instead, it took the next three years to build the prototype he envisioned and filed for a patent. With the patent application and prototype in hand, he set off to sell his idea. Unfortunately, the companies he approached didn\u2019t bite. For another three and a half years, Tim faced one rejection letter after another. Until he partnered with his college friend, Steve Berliner. In the spring of 1983, they received their first order for 500 tools from Cabela\u2019s and launched the first Leatherman tool, the PST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Founder While on a budget trip to Europe in 1975, Tim Leatherman and his wife Chau constantly came across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leathermas.shop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}