I should add mine has a straight handle which is good because I'm left handed. This new curved handle model would suck as it puts the rubber side of the knife on the wrong side of your hand. I had to modify the slider blade holding thingy on mines so I could put my blades in backwards. It serves me well.
I found a similar one in a "multi pack" at Home Depot. I reload the used blade in reverse to utilize the other side.
Tom M.
Mine too. It's pretty much much part of my Saturday "uniform". I throw on the old jeans, the work boots and the utility knife in the back pocket.
It's kind of like an unbrella - If you don't take it with you, you're guaranteed to need it.
I always have my utility knife with me when I am at home.
i
Yep, I've had one for over a year. Best razor knife that I've ever had. Can't go back to a regular razor knife now.
I've been using one like in this link for a couple years, nice in the back pocket( no blade storage ). It's been abused and loosened and then tightened up. I think newer versions "might" be better, but haven't needed a newer one. I'm really not allowed around "sharp" items.......
Oren "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
I once saw a blurb from OSHA stating that the most dangerous hand tool was indeed the lowly utility knife. I also recall that the most dangerous industrial tool is the forklift. This didn't surprise me. In the factory I used to work in we had a guy killed by a forklift that hit him as he was crossing through a walkway area.
Richard Johnson PE Camano Island, WA
P.S. I happen to like the Stanley I have. It has a scissor-like handle that unlocks with a button to allow blade changes. It stores five blades inside and holds the active blade quite securly. Blade changes take about 5 seconds. And like Rico's new toy, one of the best features is it's bright yellow color. Makes it easy to find even in bad light. I have a bunch of others, but I always seem to go back to this one.
Toy?! Okay buddy, that's it - utility knives at two paces!
The Stanley knife you have is my old favorite, the one I misplaced (I don't lose things ;), 'cepting mine was grey. It's a good knife. The Lawson is better.
I'm always amazed that Stanley still sells knives that you need a tool to open. Remember when you needed a screwdriver to open the computer up? Dinosaur era technology.
R
I got mad the other day when I couldn't find my utility knife so I popped down to the local borg and bout several knives. My favorite is currently a sheffield folding knife, but I also got a husky folding knife with built in blade storage that seems nice. I also found a mini sheffield folding knife and some mini blades that is great as my everyday letter and box opener. I still have (somewhere) a stanley utility that I've used for years, but now I've got a knife everywhere. The office, the shop, my shop apron, the electronics toolbox etc. etc. Thank goodness the wife and kids have no interest in tools and leave my stuff alone or I'd have to buy even more knives.
D.G. Adams
Try the utility knife from Lennox(gold series)
I bought a Starrett utility knife a couple of weeks ago. It had good heft and was very comfortable in the hand. It required a screwdriver to change blades. Worse still, the thumb push blade retractor broke right off after about 2 days. Maybe I can find a Mitutoyo one someplace!
I'm going to check out the Lawson and the Lenox. I had the Stanley that sort of split open and it crapped out on me too. I'm using an ancient fixed blade Stanley (199?) right now. The screw's damn near stripped clean! But you can't break it.
JP
Got 5 free blades (plus a lot of spam) from Irvin and tried the first one today. Really good! Very sharp, bends but does not break and seems to retain an edge pretty well. Don't know what they cost in comparison to others, but I'll look for them the next time I need blades.
Correction - the knife that crapped out was one that had an automatic blade changing mechanism. I think it might have been a Sheffield. It was sort of bulky, and you'd pull the blade retractor mechanism all the way back to grab a new blade. It worked rough from the get go, and crapped out after a month or so of average (for a construction worker) use.
JP
Keep a folder in my pocket at all times. Use mainly at work. With 3000 square feet of shop, if it wasn't in my pocket I would never find it.
"RicodJour" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
Is it story time? Oh boy!
So a month ago or so I'm screwing new hinges on some old redone cabinet doors. Damn soft metal screw snaps off. Gotta get it out. Screw can only go in this spot to match things. Start digging out so I can plug with wood. Using chisel,screwdriver, ice pick. OK, Mr. Icepick slips and I feel jab in left palm. Dammit, I instantly think blood is gonna get all over fresh white doors and I wanna finish this. Look at palm. Amazing. Hole is there. Nothing coming out. Great. But now I see blood dripping from the bottom of my hand. Still looking at hole in palm. Dry as a bone. WTF?. Flip hand over. There's the leak in the icepick exit hole on the back of my hand.
Well, you'll be glad to know, the new autoloading utility knife works! I drew some blood with it. ;)
R
This puts you in the "no sharp instrument" filter......
Orne "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
I'm trying to think how many times I have cut myself with a utility knife and it must be at least a dozen times maybe even two dozen. Only once seriously but these are nasty tools. The Olfa allows you to leave 3 inches of razor sharp blade exposed. Great for cutting insulation batts but very dangerous as well. The upside of an Olfa is you always have a sharp point due to the snap off blade meaning it doesn't slide across surfaces an attack you like the regular utility knife blades.
But I thought _dull_ tools were the dangerous ones! ;)
I always get some nick or cut on every project. The lion's share being little more than a scrape. But it happens on every project. Some projects I'm cruising along nicely, nearing the end, and I haven't cut myself. Ohmigod! It's going to happen, it's going to sneak up on me and happen! Don't think for a moment that it's some sort of neuroses, because the psycohses have killed them off. Yet, inevitably, it happens.
The world is funny like that.
R
I've cut myself many times: the worse was slipping on the edge of a jagged tile, give me a knife - won't hurt so bad.
I saved my fingers early by leaving one butcher shop apprentice job as a teen.
Oren "My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
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