Gear Review: Gerber Shard Keychain Multi-Tool
Value Rating: 6
Durability Rating: 10
Overall Rating: 7
Location of Test: My home
Duration of Test: 3.5 seconds
Product Name: Shard
Product Brand: Gerber
Best Use: Prying things that I would normally use my finger nail for.
Size: 2 3/4 " or 7cm
The Full Review:
The Gerber Shard. This little tool is rad! It comes equipped with a Philips/flathead screwdriver, nail pry, keychain loop, and most importantly, bottle opener! It comes in the standard Gerber black color, but I mean come on, if you’re buying it from us at Next Adventure then you gotta go with the blue Next Adventure custom one. This tool is beautiful and it contrasts nicely with my orange key carabiner. Classy.
The most used tool on it for me has been the bottle opener. Sadly, it does take a bit of focus to make sure you get the classic lip style under the right divet on the bottle cap or you can’t get it to do its job. I mean it takes me 1 second to open a beer with a D shaped bottle opener and it takes me 1 second to open a beer with a lighter. This thing takes a whopping 1.5 seconds to open a beer with.
Besides the barely inconvenient time it takes for me to open my local craft beer, this tool actually surprised me when my bathroom sink drain cap shut and I was unable to lift it back up with my fingernail. I literally said out loud to myself, "Oh I bet my shard can fix that." And it did. And that was the moment this little tool earned a spot on my keychain.
The Full Review:
The Gerber Shard. This little tool is rad! It comes equipped with a Philips/flathead screwdriver, nail pry, keychain loop, and most importantly, bottle opener! It comes in the standard Gerber black color, but I mean come on, if you’re buying it from us at Next Adventure then you gotta go with the blue Next Adventure custom one. This tool is beautiful and it contrasts nicely with my orange key carabiner. Classy.
The most used tool on it for me has been the bottle opener. Sadly, it does take a bit of focus to make sure you get the classic lip style under the right divet on the bottle cap or you can’t get it to do its job. I mean it takes me 1 second to open a beer with a D shaped bottle opener and it takes me 1 second to open a beer with a lighter. This thing takes a whopping 1.5 seconds to open a beer with.
Besides the barely inconvenient time it takes for me to open my local craft beer, this tool actually surprised me when my bathroom sink drain cap shut and I was unable to lift it back up with my fingernail. I literally said out loud to myself, "Oh I bet my shard can fix that." And it did. And that was the moment this little tool earned a spot on my keychain.