In fact, properly used, this tool will probably pay for itself after just one or two painting projects.

Hyde’s newest tool combines the company’s trademark high-quality, lightweight design with a tool that can: 1. As for the screwdriver bits, they work fine, but it’s not easy to remove them from their storage slots. Hyde in 1875, Hyde Manufacturing Company first used its superior blade-making skills to make rugged knives and blades for pros working in the tire, textile, and other industries. When I asked Clement about painter’s multitools, he said, “Almost any time you need to lever, wedge, scrape, gouge, cut, clean … I can go on … they’re a go-to. Like most similar tools, the Hyde can open a can of paint, scrape and apply putty, set a nailhead, open a bottle, pull a nail, and unscrew little things like electrical plates or light enclosures.

It is missing a number of the functions of our main pick, such as the small roller cut-out, the screwdrivers, and the bottle opener. It accomplishes all the more common multi-tool functions (scrape flat surfaces and contours, spread putty, open out cracks, open bottles, pull nails or pound them in) but also incorporates many new ones. If you’re planning on engaging in any painting projects at all, a painter’s multitool can make the process a lot easier. HYDE 17 in 1 PROJECT TOOL is the most recent multi tool has increased multi-use features to a whopping 17 uses!

Hyde 06985 17 in 1 Painter's Multi Tool combining the company’s trademark high-quality, lightweight design with a tool that can perform 17 functions. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The reality is that the screwdriver bits are probably the least important functions that the tool has to offer, particularly if you already own the Megapro 13-in-1 screwdriver (which we highly recommend).The big one doesn’t wrap around the sides of the rollers to push the paint off, so it takes about 16 passes, as opposed to eight or so with the small one. Also, one of the other 17 uses for the Hyde is to utilize the nail set as a scribe, but there are much easier and more effective ways to do that. Also, in looking at the other painter’s tools we tested, the screwdriver ability was a weak point for all of them.

It doesn’t have the small roller cutout, the bottle opener, the nail puller, the screwdrivers, or the wrench cutouts, but it does have a stainless steel blade, the large roller cutout, the prying edge, the scraper edge, the gouging corner, and a metal cap for banging a paint lid on. Squeezing out excess paint may not seem like a big deal, but you could argue it’s this tool’s most important task, because once you start adding up the dollar value of the paint you throw away on a full roller, it’s too much to ignore. and 11/16" wrenches you need to connect your ship hose to both your spray gun and your main airless hose. WARNING This product can expose you to chemicals including BBP, DBP, DEHP, DIDP, DINP and DnHP, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm. Having a 17-in-1 tool that can quickly squeegee off excess paint from these little guys is much easier than using the larger cutout found on any painter’s multitool.The Linzer has much of the same functionality as Hyde’s 17-in-1, but is missing the small roller cutout. We ended up with three for our primary testing: Hyde 17-in-1, Linzer 5600 14-in-1, and Husky 482 256 14-in-1. In addition to the usual prying, scraping, and spackling, I once saw him use one to open and eat a can of tuna at lunch break.