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> For those unfamiliar with the brand, Stanley makes what is often colloquially referred to as “box cutters”. Yep... box cutter blade. Lost in translation some
by Daub 4y ago
> For those unfamiliar with the brand, Stanley makes what is often colloquially referred to as “box cutters”.
Yep... box cutter blade. Lost in translation somewhere across the Atlantic :)
> Also, I’m curious. When you say hobby-style do you mean an x-acto knife or more like your standard folding pocket knife?
I mean a knife like the one shown in the article: a retractile blade, whose leading blunt end can be broken-off incrementally in order to maintain a consistent sharp edge.
The break is designed to follow a pre-scored edge. A nice idea in theory, but the blades frequently break in a direction oblique to that pre-scoring. This gives the visual impression that the sharp edge is facing one direction, when in fact it is facing the other. Ouch.