Let me be honest with you. Before I got deep into the EDC world, I thought a prybar was something you'd find in a mechanic's toolbox, big, heavy, covered in grease. Definitely not something you'd slip into your jeans pocket on a Tuesday morning.
Then I started actually paying attention to my hands throughout the day. How many times I needed to open a package. Pry a lid. Tighten a loose screw. Pop a bottle. Scrape a sticker off something. Loosen a stubborn knot.
Small tasks. Constant tasks. And every single time, I was either improvising with a coin, a key, or the corner of my phone case, or I was just giving up.
That's when I started designing the PRYUS. And that's when I realized: a prybar isn't a niche tool for survivalists and gear nerds. It's quietly one of the most useful things you can carry.
The 6 Reasons I Carry One Every Single Day
1. Packages Are Everywhere, and Your Hands Are Not Enough
If you order anything online, and who doesn't, you know the struggle. Tape that won't tear cleanly. Cardboard flaps that are glued like they were designed to never open. A prybar slides under the tape, pops the seal in one clean move, and moves on. No torn nails, no improvised knife work, no frustration.
It sounds trivial until you do it fifty times a week.
2. Screws Happen
Loose screws on furniture, camera gears, bags, bikes. A flathead slot in the right size appears at the worst possible moments, always when you don't have a screwdriver around. A well-designed prybar has a flat tip that doubles as a functional flathead driver for small fasteners. Not a replacement for your toolbox. Just a quiet first line of defense.
3. Bottle Opener? Obviously.
This one needs no explanation. A cold beer deserves a proper opener, not your lighter or a table edge. Enough said.
4. It Saves Your Other Tools
Here's a design principle I care about: the right tool for the right job. When you don't have a prybar, you use whatever you have, your knife, your carabiner, your keys. And you slowly destroy them all.
A prybar absorbs the abuse that shouldn't fall on your blade or your other gear. It's the tool that keeps your other tools in good shape.
5. It's Light Enough That It's Always There
The PRYUS weighs 34 grams. That's lighter than a key fob, lighter than a pen, lighter than your AirPods case. When a tool doesn't weigh you down, it becomes part of your daily carry without negotiation. You stop thinking about it, it's just there, every day, doing its job quietly.
Weight is the enemy of consistency. A heavy tool stays home. A 34-gram tool comes everywhere.
6. It Starts Conversations
This is the unexpected one. Pull out a well-designed titanium prybar at a cafe to open something and people notice. They ask what it is. It's a conversation starter, a small statement about how you think about the objects in your life.
People who care about quality recognize quality. And in the EDC world, gear reflects values, precision, intentionality, carrying less but carrying better.
Why Titanium Specifically?
When I was designing the PRYUS, the material choice was never really a question. Titanium is the only material that makes sense for a tool you carry every day against your skin, in all conditions, indefinitely.
It's lighter than steel at equivalent strength. It doesn't rust, not even when exposed to sweat, rain, or saltwater. And it has a feel in the hand that's hard to describe but immediately recognizable, dense without being heavy, solid without being cold.
A titanium prybar isn't a disposable tool. It's something you'll still be carrying in ten years, looking better for the wear.
Ready to Try One?
The PRYUS PRYBAR is machined from grade titanium, weighs 34 grams, and comes with interchangeable G10 and Ultem scales in four colors. It's the tool I use every day, and the one I spent eighteen months designing to get right.
If you've never carried a prybar before, this is a good place to start.
Why You Should Carry a Prybar Every Day (And Why Most People Don't Know It Yet)
Let me be honest with you. Before I got deep into the EDC world, I thought a prybar was something you'd find in a mechanic's toolbox, big, heavy, covered in grease. Definitely not something you'd slip into your jeans pocket on a Tuesday morning.
Then I started actually paying attention to my hands throughout the day. How many times I needed to open a package. Pry a lid. Tighten a loose screw. Pop a bottle. Scrape a sticker off something. Loosen a stubborn knot.
Small tasks. Constant tasks. And every single time, I was either improvising with a coin, a key, or the corner of my phone case, or I was just giving up.
That's when I started designing the PRYUS. And that's when I realized: a prybar isn't a niche tool for survivalists and gear nerds. It's quietly one of the most useful things you can carry.
The 6 Reasons I Carry One Every Single Day
1. Packages Are Everywhere, and Your Hands Are Not Enough
If you order anything online, and who doesn't, you know the struggle. Tape that won't tear cleanly. Cardboard flaps that are glued like they were designed to never open. A prybar slides under the tape, pops the seal in one clean move, and moves on. No torn nails, no improvised knife work, no frustration.
It sounds trivial until you do it fifty times a week.
2. Screws Happen
Loose screws on furniture, camera gears, bags, bikes. A flathead slot in the right size appears at the worst possible moments, always when you don't have a screwdriver around. A well-designed prybar has a flat tip that doubles as a functional flathead driver for small fasteners. Not a replacement for your toolbox. Just a quiet first line of defense.
3. Bottle Opener? Obviously.
This one needs no explanation. A cold beer deserves a proper opener, not your lighter or a table edge. Enough said.
4. It Saves Your Other Tools
Here's a design principle I care about: the right tool for the right job. When you don't have a prybar, you use whatever you have, your knife, your carabiner, your keys. And you slowly destroy them all.
A prybar absorbs the abuse that shouldn't fall on your blade or your other gear. It's the tool that keeps your other tools in good shape.
5. It's Light Enough That It's Always There
The PRYUS weighs 34 grams. That's lighter than a key fob, lighter than a pen, lighter than your AirPods case. When a tool doesn't weigh you down, it becomes part of your daily carry without negotiation. You stop thinking about it, it's just there, every day, doing its job quietly.
Weight is the enemy of consistency. A heavy tool stays home. A 34-gram tool comes everywhere.
6. It Starts Conversations
This is the unexpected one. Pull out a well-designed titanium prybar at a cafe to open something and people notice. They ask what it is. It's a conversation starter, a small statement about how you think about the objects in your life.
People who care about quality recognize quality. And in the EDC world, gear reflects values, precision, intentionality, carrying less but carrying better.
Why Titanium Specifically?
When I was designing the PRYUS, the material choice was never really a question. Titanium is the only material that makes sense for a tool you carry every day against your skin, in all conditions, indefinitely.
It's lighter than steel at equivalent strength. It doesn't rust, not even when exposed to sweat, rain, or saltwater. And it has a feel in the hand that's hard to describe but immediately recognizable, dense without being heavy, solid without being cold.
A titanium prybar isn't a disposable tool. It's something you'll still be carrying in ten years, looking better for the wear.
Ready to Try One?
The PRYUS PRYBAR is machined from grade titanium, weighs 34 grams, and comes with interchangeable G10 and Ultem scales in four colors. It's the tool I use every day, and the one I spent eighteen months designing to get right.
If you've never carried a prybar before, this is a good place to start.