The Leatherman Garage Harvest Knife: Will it Flip?

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By RC Staff

25 September 2023

The latest knife from Leatherman’s Garage collection has just dropped. The Leatherman Garage Batch #006 “Harvest” is a fixed blade knife, a first for Leatherman. It’s designed for general purpose field use, weeding, cutting roots, cleaning game, pretty much anything you can think of that would require a sharp and well-made knife. While other entries in the Garage series have been received quite well, the Harvest is a bit of a departure from the formula. Will it be as popular as the other Garage knives? And will it resell? Let’s find out.

Leatherman Garage Batch #006

So if you’re completely out of the loop, let’s go over what the Leatherman Garage is. These are not your average everyday tools. Instead, the Garage is a place for Leatherman’s designers to experiment on knives and multitools, mix features, and employ special materials and colors.

It’s also a way for Leatherman to produce collectible knives in low production numbers. All of the Garage knives have been limited to 1,000 units or less. It’s a nice way for a Leatherman collector to have something to put on their shelf that’s both functional and bespoke.

Garage Batch #006 Harvest is (surprise!) the sixth knife from the Garage series. The big gimmick behind the Harvest is that it’s actually Leatherman’s first fixed blade. Not only that, but it’s also just straight up a knife, not a multitool. No flip-out wirecutters, pliers, bottle opener, or corkscrew. It’s the first time in 40 years that Leatherman has produced a product this simple.

Naturally, that design decision has been polarizing. While the Garage series is intended to be a place for Leatherman to experiment and do things they wouldn’t ordinarily, many people see a single purpose Leatherman as bit of a misstep.

But many others think it’s cool, and in fact Leatherman themselves have said the knife is an embodiment of their values. It’s one tool, but made for multiple uses. It’s meant as a reliable, do-it-all knife. It’s durable, with a blade manufactured from S37VN steel and a full tang. The handle is deceptively simple, but made out G-10, a cutting edge glass and epoxy polymer.

Leatherman Garage Batch #006 Price and Availability

Leatherman sold their Harvest knife exclusively through their webstore on September 19, for $250. Expensive for a Leatherman, but it’s around the same price as the other tools from the Garage series.

Exact production numbers are unknown, but we’d have to guess these were as limited the previous knives. They first went live at 9 A.M. Pacific, and were sold out in 20 minutes.

Leatherman Harvest Knives Resell

Before we go into these knives, let’s quickly talk about the previous Leatherman Garage tool. The Garage Batch #005 “40th Anniversary” dropped back in July to absolutely massive fanfare, and was extremely well received by collectors.

These tools would go on to resell for more than $1,000 at a time, and were essentially the first major success of the Garage series. Previous batches had received fairly lukewarm reviews and were never that strongly hyped. Batch #005 proved that there was a market for these kinds of bespoke, collectors’ tools, and now the Harvest had to follow up its success.

Ahead of their release, Batch #006 Harvest knives were not very hyped. In fact, a poll held on the Leatherman subreddit in the runup to its release showed that more than 90% of voters were not planning on buying the knife, and promotional materials released by Leatherman were widely dunked on.

It looked like this knife was not going to be popular. But, the day of its release it did sell out. That’s not terribly surprising considering the limited production numbers, but it still did move a sizable amount of stock in under an hour.

And to everyone’s surprise, the Leatherman Harvest knife started to resell. Right now, a Harvest is selling on eBay for around $350, netting the resellers who grabbed one around $100 in profit.

Sure, not as good as the #005 knives, but those were a tough act to follow. It seems like the limited production was enough to get people onboard, and the idea of having Leatherman’s first fixed blade probably helped as well.

Keep an eye out for more releases from Leatherman’s Garage series. These knives tend to come out every 3-6 months, and it’s clear that they are popular enough to sell out and resell, even if people are ragging on them before their release.

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