I saw this “mod” on YouTube a while back, tried it, and failed. Today I found a new site specifically for multitools that had a lot of modding inspiration and it made my try again – and succeed.

By pure chance I ran across multitool.org today while watching Survivorman. The show is about a guy that goes out to survive for 7 days all alone in various wildernesses around the world, kind of like Man VS Wild just real (no giant camera team following him). My curious nature made me google for info on how the guy got power for his cameras (solar cells, carry batteries, etc) and by pure coincidence one of the link I found lead to a forum where one post mentioned the site. Besides some nice info on the main page, there’s a very active forum where there’s a dedicated section for modding. After reading through the Skeletool threads I found an awesome mod that added a t-shank holder (that can hild jigsaw blades) to the Skeletool. I’ve wanted a saw on the thing on several occasions and this solution seemed awesome. Unfortunately since I only need the saw for two more weeks at work, I didn’t want something as complicated, but it did give me motivation to try a simpler solution again, something I tried a couple of weeks ago and failed.

This time the result is very usable. Basically I cut off one of the hooks of the jigsaw blade so it would fit into the Skeletool bit holder and stick in the system that’s there to hold the bits in place. I put some electrical tape and heatshrink around the part that’s between the metal pieces of the carabiner part of the Skeletool so that it would clamp the blad and stop it from jiggling. To finish it off I made a holder using some plastic sheets and duct tape. Very “ghetto” looking, but it works, and I don’t need it for long. aybe I’ll try the Skelesurge method just for the sake of it, though DIY projects will be hard to do once I move in a few weeks.