cheap work knife recomendation.

blade dude said:
Sharpening a knife every night will be cheaper long term than buying hundreds of disposable blades fyi and only takes minutes


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But your time is the one thing you really can't go and earn more of...

Plus if you feel spunky you can strop or sharpen the disposables.
 
Neko2 said:
But your time is the one thing you really can't go and earn more of...

Plus if you feel spunky you can strop or sharpen the disposables.
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When I was doing Construction and Maintenance I always carried pocket stone and sharpened my Razor blades.
 
When I need a knife that's going to get used all day and beat up on, I grab a Mora. Very effective for just about any workday task, cheap enough that I can REALLY beat up on it and not worry too much, and easy enough to sharpen. If it breaks, no big deal, just grab one of the spares, and order another on amazon for $10.
 
blade dude said:
Sharpening a knife every night will be cheaper long term than buying hundreds of disposable blades fyi and only takes minutes


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Let's look at the math. Let's say 7-10 minutes each night to bring a cheap blade back to box cutter blade sharpness given heavy cutting each day (will be dull). I'm seeing 100 box cutter blades on ebay for $5. That $5 would buy 10 days of sharpening from a minimum wage employee in the US. Even ignoring the cost of the knife itself, far from being cheaper, it's 10 times the cost. Incidentally if opening these boxes is a work task, work should be providing the tools should they not? I'd never expect my employees to have to provide their own tools for a work task and if I did, they would be fully within their rights to refuse.
 
One of my early jobs was on a tugger delivering stock to an assembly line. At every stop you cut the top off the box & sometimes banding, then walked around to see it you needed to cut out the front of the box to give the operator easier access. I started out with a stockman but every night I would have to sharpen all 3 blades, they were to far gone to be stropped.

I didn't take long to decide a utility knife was the tool to have. The utility knife for work and a pocket knife for me.
Now you can drop by lowes or home depot and pick up a folding model with a belt clip and blade storage that doesn't require a screw driver.
Bi-metal or carbide blades.
 
How about a super box cutter like this
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I was lucky enough to score a few packages of the Benchmark ceramic utility blades while they were still available. They last many times longer than steel although they are somewhat brittle; if all you
are cutting is tape and cardboard they will last indefinitely. Perhaps some are still around...
 
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