favorite utility (Stanley) knife?

[pixelated]

I like my Gerber quite a lot, but the screw vanished the other day when I was changing the blade. I had a thread-compatible screw in my collection fortunately, though it required some grinding on the head diameter to fit.

 

[Packard]

The blade in my Dephin 03 doesn't budge.

I just looked to see what a Delfin03 was.  Just going by the pictures, I have a version of that design.  Tomorrow I will check who the manufacture was.

I am not fond of that knife.  Every time I open it to change the blade, the flat spring, and the die cast thumb actuator will fall out and I have to reassemble it.  Maybe it doesn’t budge. I will check on that too.  But the self-disassembly put it on the I-really-don’t-like-this-knife list.

If I can, I will post an image too.

 

[ChuckM]

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/sho...in-03-utility-knife-with-holster?item=25K0310

There is no spring in this German knife:
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[Cheese]

I've bought and lost so many of them through the years, but they always turn back up and now every desk or workbench drawer has one, there's one in the kitchen junk drawer, probably one on my dresser, no doubt one stuck down between the couch cushions.

I'm more concerned about the ones flushed down the toilet.  [poke]

 

[Imemiter]

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/sho...in-03-utility-knife-with-holster?item=25K0310

There is no spring in this German knife:

Oh my... love that shape. Looks like I'm ordering a new knife! Thanks for the link.

 

[Packard]

Homes built in the 1950s and 1960s had razor blade slots in the back of the medicine cabinet.  The one in my parents’ home had a slot labeled “razor blade disposal”.

If you were to tear open that wall, you would probably find about 6,000 razor blade.  About 2,000 pre-dated the arrival of stainless steel blades and are a pile of rust by now.

Of course that meant a 14” x 4’ of exterior wall remained uninsulated.

Personally, i recklessly tossed utility knife blades in with all my trash.there could be a dozen or more in the trash bag. A garbage collector could easily ge cut right through the plastic badge.

 

[rst]

Check outhttps://www.abbeon.com/safety-knives pages for interesting models

 

[Packard]

The most satisfactory utility knives I used in the framing shop were also the cheapest. They were Stanley brand.  Non-retractable.  Left and right hand sides and a single slotted head screw to assemble it.

They held the blade rock solid.  As I recall, I had 10 of these.  Each morning I would put in a sharp blade, and put them bin labeled “sharp”.  There was a second bin labeled “used”.  I rarely used more than 10 blades a day.  So inserting fresh edges was part of the morning routine. 

The Lenox knife, pictured below, promised to be rock solid.  It’s sole advantage was the speed in which blades could be replaced.  No screws to mess with. 

But this knife (fairly expensive compared to the basic Stanley knife) failed to live up to expectations.

The blade shifts noticeably up and down, left and right, and in and out.  Not very good.

 

[WastedP]

I've bought and lost so many of them through the years, but they always turn back up and now every desk or workbench drawer has one, there's one in the kitchen junk drawer, probably one on my dresser, no doubt one stuck down between the couch cushions.

I'm more concerned about the ones flushed down the toilet.  [poke]

I've never had one become a plumbing obstruction, but one morning, when my daughter was about three years old, she brought one to me that she found in her bed.  She told me to put it up on top of the fridge with all of the other stuff she wasn't supposed to have.  Evidently it fell out of my side pocket the night before when I was reading bedtime stories.

 

[six-point socket II]

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I haven't bought one yet, but this is also an interesting utility knife I think. It's a 2 in 1 utility knife & scraper. ->https://toughbuilt.com/product/scraper-utility-knife-tb-h4s5-01

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So I felt playful enough and ordered one. Got delivered today.

It's a big beefy chunk of a utility knife. Heavy. Fairly well made, switching from cutting to scraping and back, or just to cutting and back is very intuitive/ easy to figure out in a second or two. Ergonomics aren't that bad actually, looks far worse than it feels in hand. It has a pretty good finger guard that can serve as guard as well as "positive back stop" when holding the knife closer to the edge. When being hold as/ like a scraper, theres a strategically well placed rubber thumb rest. So there definitely went some thinking into this. I like it. However, I think the US price of about 18,- USD I have seen is far more fitting than the approx. 30,- EUR I had to pay for it. Not complaining though, it's really a great gimmick. Haven't tried the can opener yet.

I will try to register it, it says there's a 25 year warranty on it after doing so? I'm curious what that is about.

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Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[Packard]

There are several examples of utility knives with a “deadman’s” safety that automatically retracts the blade whe you take your thumb of the blade slide.  They use the in Starbucks, probably at the direction of their liability lawyers.  It probably makes sense, but I would find it annoying.

Stanley, Klein and others make these.

 

[semenza]

I hate the self retractors. Always have to hold it or have pressure on it. Good for opening boxes, I guess. But no good for a different hand hold or gently following a curve etc.

Seth

 

[Michael Kellough]

I like my old cast iron knife that clamps the blade as rigidly as can be. It has enough mass that momentum helps stabilize the cut. But since the blade is forever out it stays in the shop.

 

[vkumar]

Project Farm on youtube did a review on utility knives and the Fiskar came on top.

Project Farm Untility Knives

 

[six-point socket II]

The scraper function on that Toughbuilt utility knife works surprisingly well/ saved my a** the other day when I had a surprise repair waiting for me. Even under aggravated conditions, hence the mirror. ...

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Kind regards,
Oliver