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These are 1.70$ from county comm and come in either black or orange handles. I tend to tack on led's, razors and other small items when ordering from county comm to help justify the 9$ shipping on one item. It's the top one in this set:
County comm straight razor
olfa non-locking metal snap-off box cutter
generic square razor box cutter
gerber (unknown model)
It may not seem like much, since it's not really any thinner than other box cutters with removable blades
example of spine thicknesses:
gerber = .075"
olfa = .016"
generic square box cutter = .008"
county comm straight razor = .008"
at eight thousands of an inch thick, it's pretty thin, but no thinner then a generic square box cutter's razor. the real difference is in the treatment of the edge:
this is the olfa, it's beat up but you can kidna make out the really thin secondary bevel at it's edge. it goes from .016 to edge in roughly the same distance as the others, so it's gonna be thicker feeling in use
this is the square box cutter, the secondary bevel is pretty small but it's definitely there.
and now county comms "medical prep razor" from derma-safe.com. It has 2 features that make it unique, it's triple beveled and it's a higher grit finish:
The effect is to make the cutting edge itself thinner by putting that third relief bevel on there. it would be like knocking the corner off the corner made by the secondary to primary bevel transition on the square box cutter. it is frighteningly sharp.
For actual use I tend to prefer the olfa just because it doesn't have anything in back of the blade. I want to be able to sink the entire thing into a box without it hanging up on the spine holder, and i want to be able to sink it all the way in because I often need to shave boxes down which is better done with the flat of the blade instead of the tip.
For 1.70 I think it's worth buying to throw in your med kit. It's excellent for cutting out really deep slivers and things like that. Not that that's advisable, but as someone who can't afford a doctor it's useful to have an extremely thin extremely sharp instrument for things like that.
County comm straight razor
olfa non-locking metal snap-off box cutter
generic square razor box cutter
gerber (unknown model)
It may not seem like much, since it's not really any thinner than other box cutters with removable blades
example of spine thicknesses:
gerber = .075"
olfa = .016"
generic square box cutter = .008"
county comm straight razor = .008"
at eight thousands of an inch thick, it's pretty thin, but no thinner then a generic square box cutter's razor. the real difference is in the treatment of the edge:
this is the olfa, it's beat up but you can kidna make out the really thin secondary bevel at it's edge. it goes from .016 to edge in roughly the same distance as the others, so it's gonna be thicker feeling in use
this is the square box cutter, the secondary bevel is pretty small but it's definitely there.
and now county comms "medical prep razor" from derma-safe.com. It has 2 features that make it unique, it's triple beveled and it's a higher grit finish:
The effect is to make the cutting edge itself thinner by putting that third relief bevel on there. it would be like knocking the corner off the corner made by the secondary to primary bevel transition on the square box cutter. it is frighteningly sharp.
For actual use I tend to prefer the olfa just because it doesn't have anything in back of the blade. I want to be able to sink the entire thing into a box without it hanging up on the spine holder, and i want to be able to sink it all the way in because I often need to shave boxes down which is better done with the flat of the blade instead of the tip.
For 1.70 I think it's worth buying to throw in your med kit. It's excellent for cutting out really deep slivers and things like that. Not that that's advisable, but as someone who can't afford a doctor it's useful to have an extremely thin extremely sharp instrument for things like that.