One issue I've had with Leatherman tools: on the Blast (which I like a lot, and tend to snap up extras of just to have redundant multi-tools all over my cars, office, person, kids, wife, etc.), notice that the locking mechanism consists of a simple steel lever--a lot like a seesaw--that pivots on a little, round rod of steel. That steel rod seems just to be held in place by friction. (I'm not really sure what holds it in place, but I don't see any obvious threading, etc.)

When that little round steel rod gives way (is lost, knocked out, or whatever), you don't just lose the locking ability for the blades on that side of the tool; because the locking assembly is what stops the blades at the right place when you fold them back out to use them, loss of the locking mechanism means that the blades keep folding out of the handle, and end up kind of flopping around. Picture a non-locking pocketknife: if the blade stops when it folds out to in line with the handle, you can use it--but if the blade does not stop there, but keeps folding out for another 100 degrees or so, it's much harder to use the knife. That's the kind of thing that happens when that little rod pivot for the locking mechanism on a Leatherman Blast fails. Kind of a small, delicate piece of steel for half of the tool to depend on. I found this out when I bought a Blast on eBay, for a lower price because the lock assembly was missing. I'd legitimately bargained for the tool with this part missing, so had no reason to be disappointed, but I'd assumed that the lack of a lock just meant that it wouldn't lock, not that it wouldn't be very usable. So: a durability concern. Now, I did contact Leatherman, and they did tell me it would be an under-warranty repair, and I did send it to them, and they sent it back fixed up perfectly (or maybe a new tool; I couldn't tell). So, a plus for Leatherman's customer service!

A question: the Swisstools I've seen all have non-pointy knife blades. Do they make Swisstools with pointy knife blades?