New Line of Icon Pliers for 2025 at Harbor Freight! More Snap On & Knipex lookalikes! @ToolDemos

Harbor Freight's New Line of Icon Pliers for 2025! More Snap On & Knipex lookalikes!

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[andrewc]

I think it's awesome! I'd love to own all of them and still be able to eat dinner and have heat this winter.

[roamingcamera]

I like the prices.... I like them even more when they are on sale!

[TurkeyTender]

I think its amazing that they are getting near tool truck quality and designs to the masses

[Fedwrench]

Harbor Freight released their own video about the new pliers coming out soonish. I was at last week's SEMA show and the pliers look outstanding!!! The Icon grips are from a different material but other than that, they appear to be Snap on clones. I own the snap on/Knipex versions but, will pick up the Icon versions of the 3 position long nose pliers to have lower cost versions to beat the snot out of. All tool companies steal from each other so, I don't understand the gnashing of teeth over these pliers. I'm looking forward to the new Gen 2 Icon ratchets too.

[ToolDemos]

Reminds me of the Daytona floor jack lawsuit. I wonder if Snap On is ready to try again?

[brianhall]

Don’t hold me to this…but I worked for a restaurant that made a t-shirt that looked like a Jack Daniels label. Some of the wording of course changed to represent the restaurant but you knew exactly what it was. Jack Daniels took notice and claimed trademark infringement, but the design was changed by about 30% and they didn’t have a case. I’m wondering if you changed the handle angle by 1 degree here and 1 degree there, shortened length by 1/8” here, 1/8” wider there, if it could all compound to enough of a difference?

[carnold.knowledge]

I love how the Harbor Freight guy named Oaty said he thinks the Icon tools are better than the likes of Snap-On, Knipex, etc.

Icon stuff is decent and usually costs less, but is rarely better quality IMO.

I’ll be buried with all my Knipex pliers..,

[ecleveland]

All tool companies make or have made copies of someone else’s original design. When a patent expires anyone can manufacture that design. Now before a patent expires a company can buy a license to copy and manufacture a design under a patent.

[ThingsMen]

Was it me or did the "Engineer" look like he was too young for his supposed years of experience?

[jshulch]

I'll have to keep an eye out for them at my local HF. I cant afford Snap On lol

[darrenporsch]

Either the original manufacturers have no patent or they don't care or they haven't gotten around to suing Harbor Freight yet so get yours as soon as you can before the lawsuit start flying

[mrweisu]

Patents expire! Old news. Generic drugs copy name brand drugs down to molecule level. It’s fair game. If Snap On doesn’t offer justifiable benefits for the price, or new invention, let harbor freight kick its butt!

[whitegod]

nice showcase channel man u really hawk these comments sales only here

[branned]

I own all the Icon copycat pliers with coupons for 25% off. Excellent truck pliers. The flush cut is my favorite. I have the Snap-on, Matco, and Knipes real ones also but they stay in my shop.

[Kenny-mgls]

I wonder if they will do the smaller sizes of the slip joint needle nose pliers

[andrestnt]

They can do it because none of those companies hold patents on those tools. Snap-on hold one of the ln47, but its not for the looks, its for the angle and fitment of the slipjoint. Its probably why its taken HF almost 1.5 year to release their copy. Basically they are copying and changing just enough to stay out of whatever patent those companies have.

[hardlyb]

I've bought almost all of the new Icon pliers they've released, and am quite pleased with them. I want those needle-nosed pliers, so I will get them first chance.

[BMWBAS]

Looks can be deceiving.
I have the Icon and
Snap-On versions of the pliers that look the same.
But the entire field of the tool is different. The grip is a lot more comfortable on the Snap-On and the metal is much stronger…almost like Icon just made an outline of the Snap-On and made it but the handle is more square on Icon less ergonomic.

[madsmix]

FWIW, this (ICON copying Snap on, Knipex etc.) has been going around for some time and I get the feeling it won't stop here.

[littlejack]

the thing that blows my mind the most is how harbor freight sells anything with the triple joint, Snap-on's patent on it is still active as far as I am aware and I could not find a difference. Makes me wonder what is going on behind the scenes....