Crate Club Fall 2024 General Box: Seven Everyday Carry and Survival Picks Worth a Look

Introduction

This quarter’s Crate Club General box is a lighter haul than usual, but it still packs a genuinely useful spread of first aid, signaling, cutting, and fire-starting gear. Seven items made the cut, and they do not all land with the same impact: a couple are clear standouts, a couple are niche but solid, and one or two you may already own better versions of. Here is how each one stacks up.

MyMedic MyFAK First Aid Kit

The largest item in the box is the MyMedic MyFAK, a seriously loaded first aid kit. The bag itself feels high quality, with a hook-and-loop front panel and straps that make it easy to mount, for example to the back of a car seat. Inside, the kit covers the essentials and then some: medical shears, tape, gauze, sprain and fracture kits, tourniquets, a whistle, a pen light, tweezers, a thermometer with sheaths, and more.

If you keep only one emergency item in your vehicle, a comprehensive med kit like this is a strong candidate. The mounting straps are a practical touch that makes it genuinely car-friendly rather than a kit that lives in a closet.

Greatland Rescue Laser

The Greatland Rescue Laser is a safety and rescue signaling device with serious range claims: nighttime signaling up to 20 miles under optimum conditions, and 1 to 3 miles in daylight. It is compact, lightweight, waterproof, and runs about 40 hours on a replaceable CR123 battery.

What sets it apart from typical pointer lasers is the beam. Instead of a dot, it projects a line, which is far more noticeable as a distress signal. The laser head pops off, and a silicone cap can be used to help with signaling. It twists on and off with a simple motion, making it easy to operate under stress.

Fox Knives Z 2.0 Desert Warrior

The Fox Knives Z 2.0 Desert Warrior is a lockback folding knife designed by Jens Ansø, and it may be the best all-around EDC pick in this box. It features N690 Co stainless steel, a fiberglass-reinforced nylon handle, and a reversible deep carry pocket clip. The blade is 2.76 inches, overall length is 6.30 inches, and it weighs just 1.98 ounces.

The blade shape is genuinely appealing, and the large thumb hole makes opening easy once you get past the initially stiff lockback. Because the lockback and thumb hole both work from either side, this is a fully ambidextrous knife. It is a smaller, more EDC-friendly offering than most Fox Knives designs, which tend to run large and overbuilt.

Camillus Glide Sharpener

The Camillus Glide Sharpener is a compact sharpening tool rated for knives, axes, shears, and hooks, with a Rockwell hardness of HRC 50 to 60 and a length of 4.75 inches. What makes it more interesting than the usual portable sharpener is that it doubles as a small multi-tool: it includes T6, T8, T9, and T10 drivers, a flathead screwdriver, 20, 30, and 45 degree shear sharpeners, and a hook sharpener, alongside the ceramic and carbide sharpening slots.

This is not a replacement for a proper bench stone or a quality guided sharpener for daily use. But as a backup to toss in a camping or field kit, having sharpening and basic driver functions in one small package earns it more credit than it first appears to deserve.

Rescue Me Whistle

The Rescue Me Whistle is a keychain emergency whistle rated at 120 dB, and it is genuinely extremely loud. The pitch is for alerting people nearby of danger, signaling for assistance, and discouraging potential offenders.

For outdoor users, it is an easy sell: clipped to a pack strap or keyring, it is a low-cost safety layer for hiking, especially as a bear-aware whistle in mountain country when paired with bear spray. Anyone who spends time on trails should consider one.

Griffin Pocket Tool Mini

The Griffin Pocket Tool Mini is a tiny metal pry bar multi-tool with a scoring tool, a 5/16 wrench, a pocket clip, an 11/32 wrench, a screwdriver/pry tool, a 1/4 inch wrench, a 1/4 inch bit driver, a bottle opener, and a keyring hole. The marketing claims 10-plus tools, which stretches the definition: the pry tool is counted multiple times for doing jobs that are really functions of one piece.

That said, the Mini has genuine appeal as a small pry tool and emergency flathead screwdriver. It is well made and satisfyingly small, but be realistic about what you are buying: a pry bar with a few bonus functions, not a ten-tool replacement.

Tactica X100 Survival Lighter

The Tactica X100 Survival Lighter is a refillable lighter in a zinc capsule with a lanyard hole, a replaceable flint fire starter, and replaceable O-rings. It feels high quality in the hand, as Tactica products generally do, though the brand tends to sit at the pricier end of the market. The cap pops off to reveal the lighter, and the bottom piece unscrews so you can fill it with fluid. It ships empty, so fill it before you rely on it.

The sealed zinc capsule design makes it a natural fit for a vehicle survival kit or a dedicated fire-starting pouch, and it was one of the standout favorites of this haul.

Who Each Item Makes Sense For

The MyFAK suits anyone building out a vehicle or home emergency setup who wants a complete kit rather than a piecemeal one. The Rescue Laser and Rescue Me Whistle are both signaling tools, but they serve different scenarios: the laser for long-distance visual signaling, the whistle for alerting people nearby.

The Fox Knives Z 2.0 Desert Warrior is the pick for everyday carry users who want a light, ambidextrous, quality folder. The Glide Sharpener and Griffin Pocket Tool Mini are both secondary kit items, useful as backups rather than primary tools. The X100 lighter fits anyone assembling a waterproof fire-starting capability for a car or survival kit.

Conclusion

This quarter’s General box is lighter than recent editions, but it still delivers real value in spots. The Fox Knives Z 2.0 Desert Warrior and the Tactica X100 Survival Lighter are the standout picks, with the MyMedic MyFAK a strong choice if you do not already own a comprehensive med kit. If you are buying individually rather than as a bundle, start with the knife and the lighter and add the signaling tools based on how you actually spend your time outdoors.