Small Straight fixed blade?

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SLiuGraphite

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I work at Popeyes usually as a cook. While at work I realized that having a small belt knife would be much better than having a folder because
when using the folder I need to pull it out, open it, cut the box, close it, and put it back into my pocket. A fixed blade would be wayy faster.
Plus no more cleaning out batter from the insides of my knives. I'm looking for a small wharncliff type blade like the minimalist by CRKT but
with some nicer steel. It doesn't have to be a wharncliffe, it could be like a kiridashi or something. Something easy to open boxes with!
Any suggestions?
 
Boker: Gnome, La Griffe, Rhino

Spyderco: Swick 1 & 2

Emerson: La Griffe

That's all that I could think of on the spot
 
How about a box cutter?

No corporate rules against wearing a fixed blade at work?
 
I could use a box cutter but would much prefer to have a blade. I want something with a fairly good steel.
And no. No rules against that thankfully :D
 
Bark River Tusk or Mini Tusk. I have been lusting after one of those :) Nice carbon steel, I think they also have an CPM-3v version. They can be hard to find, but I think that either TKC or KSF might have one. (Sorry about the abbreviation, I don't think we're supposed to say the full name of places that sell stuff?)

Timbit

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I believe, off hand, the TUSK comes in at ~6.5" OAL and ~3" blade
 
SLiuGraphite said:
I could use a box cutter but would much prefer to have a blade. I want something with a fairly good steel.
And no. No rules against that thankfully :D
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Actually, box cutters commonly use 13C28N and Japanese equivalents that are quite respectable as blade-steels go. Their geometry lets them cut for a long time, and they are easy to sharpen but are so cheap most people just replace the blade instead.

I also question the speed of safe deployment and return of a fixed-blade vs. folder/retracting knife. With the fixed blade, you have to be careful unsheathing the blade that nothing is accidentally cut before you have it in your vision, and you have to locate the sheath (preferably visually) before putting the blade back. A folder/box-cutter can be in your hand at at the material to be cut before the blade is ever exposed, and the blade returned with ease without use of your eyes.

My recommendations: box-cutter #1, mini-griptilian #2, and if you need it to be fixed Cold Steel has a line of inexpensive neck & utility knives like the "super edge".
 
Not a wharncliffe or Kiridashi, but I'd recommend a Mora. A thin edge geometry and blade matter a lot when cutting cardboard, and the Mora has 'em both. Easy to sharpen, too.
 
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