Park Tool EP-1

Did I need a pair of park tool end crimper pliers? Heck yeah! Prob the only ones I’ll ever need too. Well built, feel sturdy and crimp end caps all dang day! As with all PT’s they’re pricey, but you won’t need another set.

Great crimps very good product

I use this tool both for its intended use as well as to cut guitar strings, which are very tough, and it handles that with aplomb. This duty leaves many cutters- especially those intended for softer metals- full of chunks and eventually destroys them. These cutters are true honey badgers.

Niche tool? Yup. Necessary? Let me put it this way - I wonder how I made through life this long without this crimper! While kind of pricey for a single function tool, it does its' one job better than anything else out there! The only downside of this tool is that once you get it, you will re-crimp every cable on your bike(s). And then replace all the cables that you replaced last month as an excuse to crimp more cables. I can't help but wonder if Calvin and Truman and the crew at Park Tool are getting kickbacks from the manufacturers of cable ends ;-)

Great for the one thing it is supposed to do. Crimping cable ends. The one place where they excel is crimping cables of dropper posts. But Totally not necessary and pliers work just fine.

Crimps cable ends very well.

Perfect

Thought this had a wire cutter on it. I was wrong. Crimps fine but good lord so do 1$ pliers. It's very good quality, just a uni-tasker. Would not rebuy.