Abstract: The tool includes a pair of handles which combine to form a hand grip for manipulation of the tool. When the handles are closed, a support element is displaced from its illustrated home position within the head portion, engages a connector and displaces it forwardly against a die to crimp the connector element to the multi-conductor wire positioned in the connector and effect electrical contact between individual contact elements in the connector and the conductors in the multi-conductor wire. The tool also provides for stripping the end of the wire to fit within the connector. Guide elements with upwardly open yokes on one handle accommodate the wire, and blade elements on the other handle provide a slicing action on opposite sides of the sheath of the wire as the blades engage the sheath as the handles are closed so that the sheath may be stripped to expose the conductors for insertion into the connector.