Keychain QuicKey

I've been using the QuicKey for over 6 months since I found out I couldn't take my SoG key knife on a plane and I'm honestly, very fond of it. The best tip I could give a potential buyer, though, is don't set your expectations too high. It's being advertised as a doer of many things. It actually does only a few things and I wouldn't even say it does them well. Just well enough that I can't complain.I, personally, only use the QuicKey for about 2 things. Mainly one. Cutting stuff. You probably have to sharpen the serrations a little with a tapered sharpening rod first. And maybe if you're good at it unlike me you'll end up having an impressive cutting tool on your hands. But if you just fumble through it, like me, you'll have something that can open boxes and packaging for the things you buy and whatever string you run into. But what else would you need/expect from something that's definitely not a knife?I actually really love that it's tiny, I don't have to open it up, and it won't poke me or put a hole in my pocket unlike actual knives. You just pull it out do the job and put it back. If you're one of those EDC guys and you carry 3 pocket knives on you at all times or you fix all your problems by shooting them. that's probably all you'll want the cutting edge for too. Little, quick jobs.The other thing I use is the screwdriver, but not for driving screws. just scraping things or cleaning out tiny areas. I hear it also makes a pretty good prybar.People complain a lot about the bottle opener, but I'm an avid non-drinker so that doesn't matter to me. Besides it's hard to get away from bottle openers these days. Every multitool, can opener, and corkscrew has one. Billions of free giveaway keychains have them and there's always some bro near by who can open a beer with a lighter, a ring, his teeth, or someone else's teeth. Anytime I'd use the quickey as a bottle opener is to open a drink for a friend who somehow doesn't have a bottle opener or the rare soda bottle without a twist cap. The trick, by the way is to hold it perpendicular with your thumb instead of lined up with it like a regular bottle opener.The file is a feature I wish it had but it's so terrible at filing I'm offended that anyone would even call it that. It's like a bad secretary. it works better as a grip or a noise maker.it's not a miracle wondertool but it does pretty much everything I need it to in places where I can't bring a multitool and for things I don't want to pull a multi tool out for (which are way more numerous than the ones I want to use my multitool for). I like it and I can't see it leaving my keychain anytime soon.EDIT: I originally gave this product 3 stars, which I thought was fair. In my mind 3 stars is like, "this item is nice, it does almost everything it claimed to do, didn't blow me away, but it's not bad" 4 stars would be "this item does everything it claimed to do really well and I like it a lot" and then 5 stars would be "it went above and beyond anything I could've imagined and I love this item" I think you see where I'm going with this.It's been 5 and a half years now and I realized that side from my phone and my notepad wallet, this is my most used tool. More than any knife or multi tool. I didn't expect that to be the case years ago because it doesn't do a lot of things but the things it does do come in handy ALL THE TIME and it's so convenient to pull out and get to work with.My first one broke after 4 years of extensive use while doing some heavy prying and I immediately bought another because of how good it is. At this point I've opened countless packages, crates, bottles, and boxes with this thing which makes it kind of poetic that it's shaped like a key. I'm happy to say it's not as mediocre as I once thought.

I bought this Doohickey as a pocket screw driver replacing a smaller Stanly one that I had been using. It seems to have a better Phillips (cross) driver than I had and it's a nice finished tool. The one problem I've noticed is that it's really heavy for what it is. The tool get thicker as it get's towards the keyring end, and gets thicker than any key I've ever used. Well except for pathetic bike locks that usually have a big barbaric clump of plastic on the heads of them. The added weight may help put a hole in my pocket or wear on the edge of my pocket as my keys hangs out. In my opinion it doesn't need to be so thick or hence so heavy because of it. It's a nice feeling tool, but the thickness may get it kicked off my keyring over time. I'm not sure why they formed it with such girth, since it would bend lower down if it were going to. The tool has a good design, I'm just concerned it's over-weight is too much and might cause damage to my clothes. As a tool I'm happy, as a heavy weight I'm not sure I'll keep it.

This review is a comparison of the Nite Ize DoohicKey models QuicKey and Clip Key.I’m the type of guy that always has a knife and I feel naked without it. But I have to travel often for work, packing only in a carry on, which leaves me knifeless for a week at a time. Often I find myself with some tough to open packaging, or a loose thread, or a loose screw, dearly missing my swiss army knife. So I started researching alternative tools that the TSA might either allow or overlook, and that brought me to the DoohicKey tools by Nite Ize.I bought the QuicKey first, and have successfully flown with it twice so far. And while I like it very much it requires an accessory clip of some kind if you want to carry it with rental car keys, which are typically steel cabled together.So then I found the Clip Key, which looks like basically the same thing just with a convenient carabiner built in. So I ordered a few of those too. Turns out they are very similar, but not the same.The QuicKey is very well made, looks just like a big key, and seems tailor made to go unnoticed by the TSA. Most of the ground edges are not sharp except for the inner two of the three serrations, and even those aren’t super sharp out of the box. The outermost serration is left dull, and I believe this makes it less likely to accidentally cut it’s way out of a pocket. It has jimping on one side where you can place your finger or thumb for extra force and control, and it is thick enough to be comfortable to do so. The thickness does make it more difficult to get on and off of a keyring however. At 20 grams it is a solid little tool.The Clip Key is also a nice tool, but not nearly as well made. It is a uniform thickness, appears to be stamped out of a sheet, and weighs in at 12 grams. The edges are all chisel ground from one side. This makes all of them a little sharper, and also makes it LOOK like it’s sharper, which is not what you want in a TSA line. All three of the serrations are sharp, and the corners of the screwdriver tip are sharper than the QuicKey too, which makes me think it is more likely to cut it’s way out of a pocket without too much trouble. The chisel grind makes for a passable but poor screwdriver; the QuicKey is better in this respect. It does not have any jimping, and is overall less ergonomic to use. It does not look as much like a key, and hangs crooked on a keyring making it stand out from the other keys.On the plus side, the extra sharpness makes it a better cutting tool, and the carabiner clip works well. It’s also about a third the price of the QuicKey, I’m sure because if it’s cheaper construction.Overall both tools are quite functional; they both open bottles well enough, they both turn either small flathead or phillips screws (the QuicKey does it better), they both cut open boxes, string, and that impossible foil packaging (the Clip Key does it better), and they can both do light prying (the QuicKey does it better). Both of them have a good shot of getting past the TSA (though I think the QuicKey will probably do it better).Owning both though, it’s the QuicKey that has earned a place on my keyring.