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. 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. The Hyde 6-in-1 doesn’t have the best features of our main pick, but it’s cheap, and you can still use it to open a can of paint, scrape, apply putty, and clean a large roller.

The Linzer has much of the same functionality as Hyde’s 17-in-1, but is missing the small roller cutout. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.Because of the benefits of the small roller cutout, we feel these failings are offset by the overall usefulness of the tool. In the interest of sustainability and reducing waste, here at Sprayman UK we do reuse our cardboard boxes. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If you’re planning on engaging in any painting projects at all, a painter’s multitool can make the process a lot easier. 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.

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. As a control unit, representative of the simpler models, we also looked at the Hyde 06986 6-in-1 Multi-Tool. How to open a paint can, a beer and your weekend to more time and honey-done projects with Hyde Tools’ 17-in-1 multi-tool.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. In fact, properly used, this tool will probably pay for itself after just one or two painting projects. During painting, the small flat edge can pry open a paint can, and the metal butt end of the handle can bang it back on. 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.