This Beautifully Machined Keychain Multi-Tool Includes a Feature We Haven’t Seen Before

In case you are unfamiliar, Kondor Blue is a Los Angeles-area creator of high-quality production accessories for filmmakers. David Manning, meanwhile, is a San Diego-based professional photographer and YouTuber with more than 400,000 subscribers.

Together, they’ve teamed up on what Manning calls his “dream EDC tool” aimed at photographers and filmmakers. But we see it as a pretty compelling option for just about anyone who appreciates craftsmanship, the power of bit drivers and the need to pop bottles. Here’s why.

Kondor Blue David Manning EDC Clip Tool

First off, this is not one of those multi-tools that promises a dozen features and may struggle to do any single one of them very well. Instead, the brand and the man chose to focus on just a few key, properly executed functions. (If The James Brand made a multi-tool, this might be how they’d go about it.)

The most prominent of these is a magnetic bit driver, ideal for working with digital camera and action cam bases on the go. This tool integrates storage for the included 4mm hex bit and Phillips #2, but you can swap out to alternatives you lean on more regularly if you like. When it’s time to use one, you simply move it to the top of the tool and go from there.