Characteristics of a good box cutter?

[115Italian]

I use a victorinox floral knife or a kershaw leek. Thin blades with a wharncliffe style works best for me.

 

[Wowbagger]

I've been meaning to add :

One reason I went back to using a dedicated "box knife" is then I don't have box tape glue on my good knives which I use for food. The only way I can REALLY get all the box knife smears off is to use solvent or WD-40. I enjoy WD-40's certain "oh I don't know what" but not on my salads and fruit.

With a box knife I can wipe the blade with WD-40 and just leave it on there cause I know I won't be worrying about it coming off on the wrong thing.

 

[jackknife]

I've been meaning to add :

One reason I went back to using a dedicated "box knife" is then I don't have box tape glue on my good knives which I use for food. The only way I can REALLY get all the box knife smears off is to use solvent or WD-40. I enjoy WD-40's certain "oh I don't know what" but not on my salads and fruit.

With a box knife I can wipe the blade with WD-40 and just leave it on there cause I know I won't be worrying about it coming off on the wrong thing.

This plus a billion!!!!

Look, I know we all love our knives, and this is after all a knife site. But for Pete's sake, sometimes a dedicated real tool is the way to go. No knife is going to do the same job as real box cutter or utility knife. I've gone to keeping a tried and true Stanley 99 on hand stashed in various places, as well as the cheap sheet metal box cutter that takes a single edge razor blade. You just can't beat them no matter what knife you insist on using.

 

[FullMetalJackass]

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