Box cutter love

My southard loves cardboard too.
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All my folders had considerable shoulder removed and polished on 8000 grit (convexed)

No box cutter I've used is as fast or smooth. Box cutters tear cardboard, mine slices it like paper.
 
I found an H.N.K. #2010 laying by the road here a couple years ago. Same color as the green one shown here:
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I've never seen a knife like this one, and it's built like a tank. The one I found had been run over a few times, but still works just fine. It even takes 1/4" drive bits. (Kind of gimmicky to me, but when I worked for a moving company in the mid-90's, anything less you had to carry was a benefit.)

~Chris
 
My short box cutter story:

When I was 16 I got my first job wrenchin professionally, I didn't carry a pocket knife at the time. The snap-on truck had came by that week and I noticed on the dash a pink folding box cutter, the first folding replaceable blade knife I'd ever seen. I offered to buy it but the guy gave it to me (it wasnt snap-on after all or I'm sure it would of cost ~$40). That little pink folding box cutter was the knife that got me to start EDC'ing a knife at all times.
 
CARRERA50 said:
I have a Blackie Collins design Meyerco that I picked up for $15 about 8 years ago. It's assisted and uses replaceable
utility blades; I get about a week out of a single Lenox gold. I'd buy another if they were still being made....
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If you google Meyerco MC1500, there are several companies that still have them in stock for <$15.
 
I have had a sheffeild box cutter for a few years, lock back and very stout. It used to be the only knife I could carry due to the fact I sucked at sharpening. The Delica does a great job on cardboard for me...I just strop it on my belt or when I get home and it stays razor sharp.
 
Here's my Craftsman box cutter. It might be overkill with the aesthetics for a tool, but it does have a clip on the other side and also came with a leather belt carrying case that I can't find at the moment.
 
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This Stanley #10828 looks pretty nice. No pocket clip, but the carabiner clip could attach to your belt loop. At least from the stock photos it seems pretty slim, compact, and light.

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I use the Olfa snap off blades all day everyday in the art studio at work.
I've cut miles of foam core, illustration and card board with one.

As soon as the point starts to drag we snap it off and start fresh.
We've filled a couple of gallon cans with snapped off blades.

My little tip for cutting cardboard or similar.
Angle the knife so that the blade doesn't get jammed in the board.

Looking straight down on the edge of the board angle the blade like this / and the two halves will separate.

if the blade is perpendicular to the board (like this l )it will wedge or jam and cause you to push harder and that can get dangerous.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
This Stanley #10828 looks pretty nice. No pocket clip, but the carabiner clip could attach to your belt loop. At least from the stock photos it seems pretty slim, compact, and light.

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I have one of those. It does indeed have a pocket clip on the opposite side, one position, non removable. Tip up, I suppose you'd say. Fairly thin and pocketable, it also has a bottle opener that's not part of the carabiner. This model is inexpensive, US made, and has a three position retractible blade like a normal Stanley knife. Its a fairly clever design, but I think I prefer the 10-016.
 
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