ICON Pliers Wrench VS Knipex Pliers Wrench 

Icon 10" Pliers Wrench - sovrn.co/1kdcul9 Knipex 10" Pliers Wrench - amzn.to/3I5ET8E

Well Ben...you sold me..also love the section at the end with the testing especially!

You do such intricate reviews. You’re really good.

Thx Ben, great info on these tools

Just took the calipers to my icon pair and if you open the handles just barely below full capacity you’re able to get the full 2”. But if you fully open the handles another tiny bit they drop back down to about 1.85”

Great comparison. I’m not a professional who needs the best quality tool for work so I stick with ICON, Doyle, Quinn, and even Pittsburgh Pro for my simple tasks around the house and on my cars. I picked up the ICON wrenches with the 25% off coupon recently and love them for that price. Also got the parrot nose pliers with the coupon.

Nice fair and common sense review. I am not a pro but I like your logic about the better stuff in the shop. I use my best stuff in my home shop the lesser stuff in a tool bag in my car and stuff I keep in vacation home where repair men may have access in the offseason. Never had an issue, but i makes me feel better.

Jus got mine with a coupon for 30 bucks pretty stoked I love knipex but this is rad

Well again like the Icon mini ratchet. The warranty of local change is hard to beat. I will still buying Knipex but Icon is a high recommend tool for everything with a tigh budget. I saw the pliers and didn't like the finished, quite raw. I prefer better cosmetics from Knipex.

Best overview/comparison video I’ve seen of the Icon version of the pliers wrench. Well done. Very thorough. And extremely fair. I think I’ll pick up a pair to supplement my existing Knipex tools for the very reasons that you mention. Thank you.

HF keeping prices sane

Is the grip on the ICON like the grip on snap on pliers?

5:22 It looks like they open to about 7/8" and not 3/4" as you indicated. Camera angle isn't the best for viewers but still looks closer to 7/8" to me.

whats the benefit over channel locks? Non marring surface?

Hard to go wrong with ICON considering quality, price and easy warranty. Right?

People need to understand that ICON is a premium tool brand of high quality but won't cost you an arm and a leg! Harbor Freight Tools Co. invested millions in R&D to create a premium high quality tool brand that can be affordable to everyone that can compete with the higher overpriced tool brands out there. Think kind of like Milwaukee power tools, better than Snap-On but way for less yet very well made quality tools! Trust me, on a recent torture test vid, Milwaukee destroyed the cheaper too and embarrassed and destroyed the $1,000 Snap-On Impact tool in all tests!!! Yes they are made in Taiwan and Taiwan is a leader of high quality manufacturing, just take a look of all motherboards in high quality computers, all made in Taiwan from super high quality Taiwanese brands such as ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, etc..... (leaders of computer motherboard engineering & manufacturing in the whole world) I rather have something made from Taiwan than in China hands down anytime!

Icon looks like an exact copy design wise. Even has the same relief dimples in the moveable jaw guide. I take it the Knipex patents have expired? How does Harbor Freight's "Icon" compare for steel, forging, hardening and tempering/heat treat? Do they run about the same price or is the "Icon" considerably less expensive, giving consumers a viable reason to even consider the copy?

I would be interested to see a comparison of the ICON pliers wrench vs the KNIPEX 10" OG pliers wrench. Maybe you have a friend that bought a pair before they redesigned the 10" pliers?

The icon looks identical to the original knipex version. They revised it 4-5 years avo with all the weight improvements.

Both were close to 7/8s of an inch

Icon 10" pliers for $40 ($44 total after taxes) vs. Knipex 10" pliers at $65 ($71.50 after taxes), Icon for the WIN anytime!!! Premium tools at half the cost, and there's a store 1.5 miles away from me, Win WIN Icon by Harbor Freights Tools! The best tools are the right tools for the perfect job, not only saving you time but helping you do the job correctly and efficiently and they don't have to cost you another mortgage loan... Oh and this price is not even discounting the adding of the 30% Off coupon you get from time to time at HF which makes the tool more cheaper to own!

Harbor freight works for me. 👍🏻

Why don't you stress test them? Looking the same doesn't mean much. See where they break. Lots of tools look like a Snap-On, but are nowhere near the durability.

The steel definitely isn’t anywhere near as good as Knipex’s and the heat treatment may or may not be as good as it can be but it doesn’t matter as much for this particular tool as the smooth jaws don’t have any teeth that can deform. They will develop more play in between parts eventually and aren’t as well made but are really good for the price, especially considering the fact that they copied the Knipex design 100%. Every single part is identical. Knipex’s pâté for the multi-set adjustment system expired and they decided not to renew it, which i think is admirable as it gives other companies the opportunity to make similar products for cheaper. As for the design patent, I don’t have any information on that particular issue.

Icon is nothing but a copycat. One thing about a copycat is they're never as Good as the original. As much as they might try they just can't top the original designers. They're just want to be Knipex and Snap On

knock offs........

It may be a decent tool but I would be embarrassed to buy anything from them harbor freight is not on my favored vendor list. Do you know anything about globalization? It’s the high cost of low cost products.

I hate they can steal the pattern of someone else hard work

"Nipex", silent K

Although I love the Knipex tools ... the price of the Icon is great and the warranty is definitely much much easier !!! I totally agree that they both have their place and are both worthy brands !!!