Announced early in 2007, the PowerCut was a much anticipated, but ultimately failed attempt to make a side cutter based multitool. Based on the
PowerLock 2.0 frame (which was in turn based on the
Power Play PT-525) the PowerCut sadly never came to market, due to issues with the investment cast jaws breaking in use. The production of this tool proceeded so far that SOG actually brought a prototype to the 2008 SHOT Show. However, SOG never worked out the problems with the jaws breaking, and eventually gave up on the project altogether.