The CRKT Snailor is described as being a small go-anywhere drinking buddy. Primarily a bottle opener, the Snailor can also be used as a zipper pull tab.
They also say it’s a keychain tool, but I’m not quite sure what that means, aside from it being keychain-sized.
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It also has a carabiner clip. While I’d like to say that it has hidden multi-tool functionality, the CRKT Snailor just looks to be a cool little bottle opener, and that seems like enough.
- Made from 304 stainless steel
- 2.844″ long
- Weighs 1.2 oz
- Sandblasted finish
If you’d rather spend less, or want a smaller opener, there’s a Snailor Compact, which has a continuous ring and no clip.
- Made from 304 stainless steel
- 1.691″ long
- Weighs 0.2 oz
- Sandblasted finish
Price: $11 for the Snailor (9006), $8.75 for the Snailor Compact (9005)
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John
How the world has changed! Once upon a time stuff like this was a give away at corporate events or motor race meetings or in store promos.
fred
I bought plenty of giveaway’s for one of our companies. I never was quite sure how effective it was – but it probably made money for our tchotchke supplier:
https://www.dibble2.com/
JoeM
I just hate that they seem to think we’re all low-life drunks, itching to get another beer in us. Every tool company, and gadget makers galore, are always releasing new bottle openers. Just because they all do it, doesn’t make it right.
We make and build things, damn it! Maybe leave the Alcohol tools out of the tool box, and leave them solely where the Alcohol is, so there isn’t so much push to be drunk all the time. It kills more people than the momentary buzz is worth. We’re not stupid, and I really hate when they treat us like we are.
Stuart
There are plenty of non-alcoholic sodas and beverages sold in glass bottles with non-twist-off caps. Opening such bottles is done much more easily with a bottle opener than without.
It’s not unreasonable for a company that specializes in pocket knives and EDC tools to make something like this. Respectfully, you’re reading too much into things.
I posted about it because it came up in a search for something else on Amazon, and I thought it was cute and post-worthy.
Robin
I actually prefer soft drinks from glass bottles, when I drink them
C.D.Harris
Thank you for your comments. I truly believe WHAT you say. Where I live most bottles have a twist off top and cans have pull tabs
Todd Barry
To JoeM, please understand a LOT of people collect bottle openers, and some of those same people collect tool related bottle openers so NO, we are not all drunks…sometimes, LOL
mike
IMO, too big for a single use device. Either make it small enough that it blends in with my keys or make it useful enough to find real estate in my pocket.
Stuart
Even the smaller one?
C.D.Harris
I agree with you
TonyRockyTiger
I like the Gerber Shard:
https://www.gerbergear.com/Multi-Tools/Solid-State/Shard-Keychain-Tool_22-01769
… I have used it as a cap-lifter and a screw driver.
TonyRockyTiger
… and as for @JoeM I don’t drink alcoholic beer and have used the cap-lifter many times. Topo Chico is a brand of sparkling water that is readily available here in Southern California and only comes in capped glass bottles.
I’ve also found H2Ops to be very refreshing: it’s a hops-flavored sparkling water that is non-alcoholic. Give it a try if you see it!
Adam
Hops flavored water? Sounds like smoking hemp, with none of the fun .
Even though I don’t smoke, I still have a lighter & mini-butane torch in my tool bag. Never know when they will be handy.
While I agree about the non-alcoholic usage of a bottle opener most of the time, I don’t see that would be why say Milwaukee has one on their M18 Radio/charger. I doubt they put it on for all the workers that bring glass bottled pop (or water) to a jobsite.
fred
Alcoholism and drinking on the jobsite – or trying to work while impaired is a big problem. Early in my business career it was relatively easy for many employers to terminate employees for incidences (particularly repeated ones) of drunken behavior in the workplace. With labor laws like ADA and FMLA – we now take what is perhaps a more humane approach – recognizing alcoholism as a disease – and allow alcoholic employees a chance at rehabilitation. Over the years, I and my partners were faced with many situations where we had to terminate employees after repeated warnings with second and third chances about drinking on the job or coming to work intoxicated. We also strived to make our workplaces safe – inculcating the idea that colleagues would not allow their fellows to work drunk – jeopardizing their own and others safety. Better to get driven home drunk and lose a day’s wages than jeopardize yourself and others. We were also very circumspect about the subcontractors that we hired – and while we could not (co-employment law fits in here) tell them who they could hire – we could certainly pass on the word that we would not tolerate drunkenness – or hire subcontractors that did.
skfarmer
wow, lots of panties bunched up over a bottle opener. i don’t condone working or driving while under the influence of anything, alcohol or otherwise.
that said, the resurgence of good craft beer in glass bottles is a great thing. i am old enough to enjoy a nice cold beverage of my choice in my shop, garage or home whenever i see fit or if i choose not to.
it’s damn bottle opener for pete’s sake.
as a side note, my favorite bottle opener is the carabiner clip/opener on my
leatherman skeletool. pliers, knife. phillips and flat drivers and a bottle opener. what more do you need?
JoeM
Listen… it’s not that ALL bottle openers are bad. My problem is when EVERY Tool company feels the need to include them in their lineup out of principle. There are remarkably few non-alcoholic glass bottles around the world anymore. So, if we’re talking commonplace need, what about a tool for a guaranteed product on jobsites? Something that can grab and twist open one of those super-skinny caps on bottles of water? There are billions of people without the strength and dexterity to open those things. If these bottle openers were for those? I’d see the giant need for everyone to put one out.
It’s not those caps though. It’s for non-twist-of glass bottle caps. Go looking for just how many totally alcohol free drinks use those, and you get tiny decimal points of the total market. So, it’s a tool that EVERYONE is making, in the delusional hope that it will be used on beverages that only make up a teeny-tiny fraction of the world’s total consumption?
Don’t try that excuse with me. I’m Canadian. The major producers took Glass bottles away 25 years ago, and now you have to chase super-rare brands, in even more rare flavours, in order to require a bottle opener. So, there is ZERO reason to include a bottle opener on ANY Business-Oriented brand tool, just for the 0.0001% chance it will be used on a Work-Friendly Beverage.
No. These are to hit the Home Market, and the rampant stereotype that people who work with tools, are chugging Beer at home. Craft, Domestic, Import, doesn’t matter. Milwaukee, DeWALT, Stanley, Makita, CRKT, Leatherman… They’re all companies that advertise that people who use THEIR Tools, are active, and hard-working, willing to go into places no one else is to build the things we all need built. So, it’s a contradiction to blatantly make bottle openers that match Tool systems. Leatherman on your belt? Gonna go fix some wire, maybe set up camp and teach some kids how to survive in the wilderness… While Drunk on Beer of course, because EVERY tool system has a bottle opener, and the thing that gets consumed the most, that requires a bottle opener? Beer. What the hell is an active, intelligent, focused individual going to do int the field with Alcohol, other than get people hurt? It sets a horrible precedent for behaviour, and if it isn’t their intention to encourage the Beer-Swilling Drunkard stereotype for their consumer base, then WHY are there so damned many of these being made? And why do they keep trying to make a BETTER one? The original Swiss Army version of one works fine, the hand held devoted one works fine… but y’know what? The Alcohol belongs at home, in your house, where inebriation can’t hurt anyone. It doesn’t belong in your glove compartment, tool box, or WORKSITE RADIO.
It’s insulting to all of us, ESPECIALLY those who are old enough, like Fred here, to have seen how Alcohol affects the work environment so negatively. How much it risks safety. We ALL know how unsafe Alcohol is around our Tools, and this Stereotype that we need Bottle Openers on the job is an insult. It’s NOT reasonable to expect these things. It’s as insulting as having a Nurse costume for a 12 year old girl be the “Sexy” type with nothing covering her legs, and with a neckline to her navel. It’s wrong! Tools like Wine Cork tools, Bottle Openers, and Liquor spouts, should all be kept solely where Alcohol is, and be kept OUT of the Tool market. Our culture has been made stupid enough, we don’t need marketing departments treating us all like dingbats who can’t get through a day without the giggle soda.
Does Fred seem like an idiot who is drunk all day? skfarmer? Stuart? I say NO. They aren’t drunkards, they aren’t stupid, and the insistence on tools trying to pass off the image that tool users can’t wait to be drunk is massively, PAINFULLY, insulting to what we makers and builders of the world are doing FOR the world. It’s morally and intellectually WRONG.
This snail design IS adorable, make no mistake. The quality, effectiveness, and overall aesthetics of it are quite fantastic… but if you’re doing anything but keeping it in the kitchen cutlery drawer, or on your keychain/zipper pull while working at a Bar… This has no place being marketed to EDC or Professional Tool Users of ANY kind. The market of these people always involves getting in a vehicle and going to go make something, or operating dangerous machinery. It has no place encouraging alcohol consumption while using other Tools. And I’m frankly angry at the industry for thinking we don’t actually see this happening. All the lives lost to drunk driving, all the injuries caused on job sites because of alcoholism… They’re putting their name on vanity products intended to get people to get in a car, go somewhere dangerous to be drinking alcohol, and demonstrate their new “Toy” for everyone. Is it possible they’re picking up SODA for this demo? 0.0001% possible, sure. The REST of the time… Beer… They’re going to demo it on Beer. They will share that demo with their boss, their friends on the job, everyone. Where Beer does NOT belong, they’re vanity products for Beer being marketed to us. It’s just wrong. CAN Opener, sure. Lots of Cans can be needed outside the home. But a BOTTLE Opener? No. Just… NO.
Corey
I can see your point, but I’ll say that you’re choosing an odd hill to die on, in this topic lol
skfarmer
i am with corey. all of these guys are picking an odd thing to get all worked up about. me thinks they have other issues and it’s not with a bottle opener.
i am somewhat glad i was referred to in a previous post because i would like to correct a couple things.
first of all, i assume that joe m lives in canada. there may not be glass bottles in canada but there sure is here in the states. i would guess that beer sold in bottles is not an insignificant number. i am only guessing but i would say in that 1/4 to 1/3 range.
second, twist off caps are a pain. yes you can get them open by hand but a bottle opener still works so much better. we have all seen the guy open one on his forehead or elbow. i have even seen gals grip one under there…… um chest and open one. no class, use an opener even if it is a pretty snail one.
third. while i don’t even believe my worksite radio has a bottle opener, it sure has been used off the worksite. out camping, in the garage, in the shop, on the deck and out in the screenhouse.. all places i have enjoyed a cold one off the clock. it is very narrow minded to think that those radios are only used on a jobsite.
i think next time i buy a gallon of paint and the guy behind the counter gives me a paint stick and one of those wire lid lifters with a bottle opener on the other end he may get a talking to. how dare he promote alcohol abuse while painting?
bjacob
Bottle openers are typically promotional items, even if you pay for them. When you are in a social situation away from work where it is acceptable to imbibe (which might not ever happen for some). You pull out a fancy bottle opener and open somebody’s bottle of sparkling water. That other person might notice it and start asking questions. That might lead to talk about the company’s other products. Which is very desirable to that company. Also, bottle openers fit within their realm of capabilities. You don’t see them building stuff like soap boxes or pulpits, because carpentry is not part of their business.
Skfarmer, my favorite bottle opener is a heavy duty one from Craftsman that I got for Christmas one year. It sure makes opening my bottles of orange soda, cream soda and root beer easy. I have a small collection of around 20 bottle openers. I go after more functional ones that look nice. This CRKT looks nice, but it would be nice to have a pop can opener. Even though I think pop is more unhealthy for me than beer, I still consume them on occasion and have a hard time getting my lack of fingernails under the tabs.
Adam
I thought of that after my first post. I use my Milwaukee bottle opener / poor excuse for a wire stripper, for opening cans. Most times its because I have gloves on, which makes it nearly impossible to open.
Even if the opener only opened pop/water, i have a strange dislike of anything glass & wouldnt want the chance of it breaking on a jobsite. Again, this is me loving Tupperware/plastic & avoiding glass when possible
Brett
Your classification of anyone who has a use for a bottle opener as “an idiot who is drunk all day” or “dingbats who can’t get through a day without the giggle soda” is painting with a pretty offensively wide brush. There’s plenty of people who do have a responsible relationship with beer and those people may at times need a bottle opener.
skfarmer
very well said and thank you.
Hilton
Or just open the bottle like a man, using another bottle. It’s really not that difficult.
Stuart
How does that work? I’ve opened bottles using all kinds of things, but not other bottles.
Jared
Skip to the 37 second mark:
https://youtu.be/nrKTKQVsib4?t=32
It’s not hard, but you do need to do the motion with commitment to avoid opening the wrong (i.e. upside-down) bottle.
Funny how this post went sideways fast.
About putting bottle openers in tools – I suspect the tool manufacturers realize not everyone is using them on construction sites rather than as a subtle encouragement to drink at work. I use my tools on my farm. Nobody’s business but mine if I open a beer in my shop while working on my dirt bike.
skfarmer
i hate to keep responding at the risk of being boring but that rant has so many points that are closed minded.
first of all, multi tools. how often does one need a file, wood saw, fish hook remover, gut hook or can opener? probably less often than a bottle opener but hey many tools have them as well. are we idiots because our tools may have them?
another one, my wife has ra (rheumatoid arthritis) and has trouble with any twist off caps. from bottles of pop, water or beer to salad dressing and mayo jars. any tool that can assist her is no joke or gimmick,
i am going to say this and say it out loud. those that have issues with this are against alcohol more than anything. that is ok if you are honest about it but blaming a bottle opener it is not being honest. let’s be real about it . the presence of a bottle opener is not the thing that makes an abuser of alcohol drink on the job or at home.
Gabe
Most of these bottle openers with the finger loop also double as a single finger brass knuckle of sorts if held in the reverse orientation. Not usually advertised as such, but the designs show intent, some more so than others. Ymmv when passing through TSA or other types of security checkpoints whether or not you get to keep it.
Joe framer
Well well….unlike the kindness of Fred..I fire anyone.that even smells like alcohol, nevermind buzzed or drunk. Not allowed on the site , period.
…I don’t drink but I do collect tool company bottle openers, sorry Joe M. The hardest to get was the gedore one. ( They redesigned it).
..I do love RootBeer in a glass bottle,which usually has a non twist off cap..as for this bottle opener in the article,it’s not a “tool style” so I’d pass.
fred
My experience is that the concept of At-Will Employment varies from state to state (my experience was in 5 states). Terminating employees (particularly ones that were not on some sort of probation or employed as temps) could be tricky (possibly even ruled unjust and illegal) depending on the state. Particularly for longer-term employees – we were a bit more understanding and accommodating to the thought that an intervention with rehabilitation might work for those on the slippery slope of alcoholism. In one of our firms – our employee medical coverage would pay for a reasonable amount of substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation. In that company we did random drug and alcohol testing – and if abuse was discovered we’d offer the option of treatment (first incidence) or if treatment was refused and/or a second test was positive – we’d terminate the employee.
Gabe
I admit I’ve always liked the design but the original prices were out of my budget. $400 or so… for a bottle opener/single knuckle knocker. Now that it appears Jesper Vosnaes has licensed/sold the design to CRKT, it’s easily affordable.
Bryan
The virtue signaling is strong on this topic. Sounds like a few people on here could use a old one. Don’t let them know that Milwaukee includes a wire stripper on their bottle opener obviously encouraging electrical work to be done while drinking.
On a side note the snail or looks too big to be a zipper pull.
Tony
So strange that an unbiased review about a simple tool (bottle opener) somehow got hijacjked to imply alcoholism. The connection is clearly self-imposed.
fred
Mea Culpa – like so many other topics – one can get carried off on a tangent.
I did not want to imply that a bottle opener – or any other tool for that matter – had a direct connection to alcoholism or any other behavior deemed inappropriate on the job. I’m no tea-total’er – but have seen the deleterious impacts of alcohol on people at work – and I am intolerant of mixing inebriants and work together.
Tony
Oh, I wasn’t referring to you, Fred. 🙂
Paul Gross
Ummm. Wtf? While the internet has a lot of incredible qualities; it seems that more so lately that it gives a lot of bored, narrow minded nut jobs a voice. Its a bottle opener. Shaped like a snail. I’m pretty there are SO MANY more important things “WE” should be worried/working on in this country ….to make America Great Again. Wake up fools, you getting duped
Charles
I need a beer and I dont collect bottle openers! Prefer to use my Kershaw to try and cut myself while opening my beer.