use your hands! fingers will soon toughen up, then finish the job with your leatherman/gerber, which ever your prefer... a pair of pliers/cutter is a pair of pliers/cutters, wether thats all the do or not! so dont worry about using them for wire locking
carefull though, multi tools cause laziness... they are there to get you out the ****... im abit guilty of the first though
as im sure many others are
