Needed: Cardboard eater

Honestly, for what you're doing, get yourself a cheap ceramic knife. They come out of the box sharp enough to cut through cardboard and the best part is they never dull. You get yourself something around $20 - $30 and you will chew through cardboard like it's nothing and save yourself the grief of having to re-sharpen your knife or buy new blades for your box cutter. Don't believe me? Ask what Aldo from the NJ Steel Baron what him and his sons use.
 
Demitrios said:
Honestly, for what you're doing, get yourself a cheap ceramic knife. They come out of the box sharp enough to cut through cardboard and the best part is they never dull. You get yourself something around $20 - $30 and you will chew through cardboard like it's nothing and save yourself the grief of having to re-sharpen your knife or buy new blades for your box cutter. Don't believe me? Ask what Aldo from the NJ Steel Baron what him and his sons use.
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I've heard those blades have a level of toughness that would embarrass ZDP-189 at Rc 67. Given how thick some pieces of cardboard are(that I end up cutting), I'd expect the blade to snap in half on me.
 
i have no first hand experience with ceramic knives, but i personally wouldn't trust a ceramic knife to handle cutting zip ties or cardboard with staples in it.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone! Looks like box cutter has most of the votes, and those can be had for like $8. I also have half a dozen knives on my to buy list now, thanks :p
 
Do the folding boxcutter and use some kind of pliers-style snippers for the zipties.



If you really wanted to use a good knife, I'd say get something like a spyderco in a great steel like s90v. Cardboard is really abrasive as others have said.
 
I'm tellin ya man, if you don't go the way of the box cutter then the Svord peasant knife is you're next best choice.

Unless you spend 3-5 times the amount for a Svord peasant, then the L6 tool steel used by Svord will out perform and outlast the alternatives. do a google on it some time, or look it up on youtube, there's at least a dozen video reviews about how awesome the peasant knife is.
 
Javelin said:
Hey, look into getting a Peasant's knife from Svord.

The blade is L6. For Cardboard I've always thought that a TOUGH steel beat out a hard steel due to the hard particles in cardboard. No matter how hard the blade, that stuff will micro-chip the edge to oblivion. L6 is super tough and is quick to be restored, so just bring a small stone, strop, or hell even just a bit of 600 grit sandpaper to do touchups on and you're golden. The blade kinda thin but look at the tang, that's right the tang can be used to pry apart whatever you need and do it with the edge safely tucked away in the handle. This knife is very sheeple friendly and only about 15$ to boot. This is the perfect work knife in my opinion, and is a design that has been in hard working hands for centuries.

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Combine this with a cheap pair of nippers for the cable ties and you'll have a couple of tools that will have some utility beyond just the bike shop. A boxcutter is just a boxcutter, but a knife is something more.
 
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