Does Anyone Need A $475 Boxcutter?

madcap_magician said:
What I really want is a La Griffe made by someone who is not Fred Perrin or Ernie Emerson. Fred uses 12C27 and his knives always look... rough. Ernie is still fixated on his wrong-side chisel grind and running 154CM at RC57 and covering it in cheap powder coat.

I want a straight-edged, pointy, double-ground wharncliffe La Griffe with nicely chamfered edges and DLC coated in Magnacut at RC62.
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Spyderco SPOT or Swick version 9 or 10 (whatever they are calling it and whatever the version they're up to is) should be pretty close to that!
 
I like the design and I recon resale might not be bad at all since you can just replace the part that gets used up in other USER knives.

I’d get one if I was a rich dude instead of a working class dude.
 
I'll be honest here, the more I think about it, the less ridiculous this seems to me. Maybe it's because I already have a rather expensive box cutter that I actually use every day at work. But how many of us own and carry rather expensive knives like Sebenzas, Hinderers, Rocksteads, Microtechs, etc? Lots of us. How many of them balk at the idea of ruining the perfect edge of that $500+ knife on something so mundane and possibly damaging as a box? I'm betting a lot of us do, which is why those of us who break down lots of boxes also carry something like a Gerber EAB or Opinel or Milwaukee for just that reason.

This G&G means you get to use a $475 knife to cut boxes without the guilt of chipping the mirror polished edge of your Sebenza. Really cool mechanism too.

No, I'm not gonna buy one though.

tiguy7 said:
Finally a knife I can fly with. Simply remove the blade.
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You've got a Spectrum Energetics Utilizer, don't you? Blade swapping has to be a PITA though, although only slightly more than the G&G. But at least the Utilizer has a way to hold the Torx (Allen?) wrench.
 
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Planterz said:
I'll be honest here, the more I think about it, the less ridiculous this seems to me. Maybe it's because I already have a rather expensive box cutter that I actually use every day at work. But how many of us own and carry rather expensive knives like Sebenzas, Hinderers, Rocksteads, Microtechs, etc? Lots of us. How many of them balk at the idea of ruining the perfect edge of that $500+ knife on something so mundane and possibly damaging as a box? I'm betting a lot of us do, which is why those of us who break down lots of boxes also carry something like a Gerber EAB or Opinel or Milwaukee for just that reason.

This G&G means you get to use a $475 knife to cut boxes without the guilt of chipping the mirror polished edge of your Sebenza. Really cool mechanism too.

No, I'm not gonna buy one though.



You've got a Spectrum Energetics Utilizer, don't you? Blade swapping has to be a PITA though, although only slightly more than the G&G. But at least the Utilizer has a way to hold the Torx (Allen?) wrench.
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The ShortCut looks easier to flip than the Utilizer. The tool problem is easily solved. I like tip down carry and don’t need a lanyard. The ShortCut lock is beefier.

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Since people have starting sharing, here's my "collection" of box cutters and my supply of utility and safety edge razor blades.

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These are "knives" that I actually use to cut tape and open/break down cardboard boxes.

You don't need a wrench to remove the blades from any of these knives. Just push the yellow button on the Stanley, push a little spring tab and pull down the retaining gate on the Husky and just remove the sleeve of the standard box cutter.

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The standard box cutter cost $1. The Stanley cost me $5. And the Husky cost me $8. Forget what the blades cost but you can currently buy a pack of 50 utility blades for $4.99 and 100 safety edged razor blades for $5.99 from Harbor Freight. Altogether this only costs $25.

For an EDC boxcutter, I highly recommend the folding Husky utility knife (or one of many like it) which has a thumbstud to facilitiate opening the blade, a back lock, a pocket clip on the back side and a loop to attach a lanyard to on the butt end. It doesn't get any better than THAT!

So, you'll NEVER see me paying $475 for a boxcutter, when I've already got $14 "invested" in a trio of perfectly functional boxcutters and $11 worth of blades that will probably last me the rest of my life.

LOL!!! 🤣

OBTW, I just recently spent $475 on a Randall dagger and $450/$550 for a pair of custom Valloton autos. So, it's not like I can't spend THAT kind of $ on what I consder a REAL knife.

And, to answer my own question, no one IMO "NEEDS" to buy a $475 boxcutter but you now know where you can buy one if you "WANT" one.
 
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Planterz said:
I'll be honest here, the more I think about it, the less ridiculous this seems to me. Maybe it's because I already have a rather expensive box cutter that I actually use every day at work. But how many of us own and carry rather expensive knives like Sebenzas, Hinderers, Rocksteads, Microtechs, etc? Lots of us. How many of them balk at the idea of ruining the perfect edge of that $500+ knife on something so mundane and possibly damaging as a box? I'm betting a lot of us do, which is why those of us who break down lots of boxes also carry something like a Gerber EAB or Opinel or Milwaukee for just that reason.

This G&G means you get to use a $475 knife to cut boxes without the guilt of chipping the mirror polished edge of your Sebenza. Really cool mechanism too.

No, I'm not gonna buy one though.



You've got a Spectrum Energetics Utilizer, don't you? Blade swapping has to be a PITA though, although only slightly more than the G&G. But at least the Utilizer has a way to hold the Torx (Allen?) wrench.
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I genuinely want one, just don't know that I'll have the cash on hand when they drop. I long ago came to the realization that when I got sick I became a light user and blade steel became essentially a nonfactor for me in my EDC. Combine that with the fact that, these days, I usually carry an EDC fixed blade and that makes the ShortCut seem like the ultimate companion. Great edge, great cutting geometry for the light tasks I do 99% of the time, unlike most box cutters it's fidgety and sexy as hell and I have a small fixed for tougher tasks.

Realistically? I think the ShortCut is 98% toy and 2% tool, but that's also true of my OTFs and the great big, overbuilt tactical folders that I like.
 
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