As described.
Great product, Fit's good and very sharp.
Nice device.
This blade doesn't feel nearly as sharp as an X-Acto, but it cuts well. It's a lot easier to handle in respect to avoiding accidental cuts. Running the blade across my finger even with a slicing motion and a little pressure doesn't cut. But applying more pressure at the tip on paper and other surfaces works very much like an X-Acto in most respects. The blade that comes with it doesn't have the sharp needle-like point, which is fine for my purposes. (Other blades, including a standard X-Acto type, are available.) It's quite stiff but has a touch of give side-to-side with firm pressure.
The handle is especially good for straight cuts and lazy curves. When I want to make sharper curves or corners I find myself taking my finger out of the hole so I can vary the angle of the blade more.
Unfortunately, mine came without the lid, which makes it trickier to store and carry.
I found Slice’s precision knife with ceramic blade is extremely comfortable to use for all of the tasks I put it to. It makes a really nice cut with the sense of control, particularly going straight down, or fairly straight. I like the utility of the molded handle. The ceramic blade was new to me, but I’m impressed. I’ve only ever used metal blades.
When cutting vinyl without anything as a guide, the only limitation was my hand-eye coordination. It cut where I moved easily. With the finger loop, It’s very comfortable to hold with my index or middle finger inside the loop, or to rest the back of the loop in my palm while I hold it with my fingers closer to the blade. You have some options. I also cut lefty sometimes. It’s helpful I can turn the body upside-down and flip the cutting edge around if I feel the need to hold it that way.
The construction feels good to me. It’s a hard, slightly textured plastic body while the orange ring inside the ergonomic handle is rubberized.
I didn’t notice any less or more difficult cuts because of the ceramic blade. Changing the blade works similarly to some traditional interchangeable blade knives by simply unscrewing the knurled metal part. The threaded part of the body inside the cap is also plastic, however.
The back of the package is perforated to remove the knife. The included safety cap is hard plastic and fit snug to hopefully prevent an accident. Slice advertises four styles of blades. One blade is installed and included. There is no storage for blades with the body.
Feature Product
- Slice safety blades' unique cutting edge might seem dull, but it cuts right through your material while keeping you safe! Slice blades are finger-friendly and safe to the touch
- Other blades are dangerously sharp. Slice blades start at a safe and effective sharpness and stay there 11 times longer. Installed rounded-tip blade guards against punctures.
- Ambidextrous ring handle with cross-hatch grip gives precise control for detailed cuts and intricate shapes.
- Perfect for paper, cardstock, leather crafting, vinyl, quilting applique, corrugated plastic, crafting felt, stencils, washi tape and many more crafting/hobbyist materials.
- Alternate safety blade styles available: pointed tip, curved edge rounded tip, seam ripper. Cut your material, not yourself, with Slice safety blades.
Description
The Slice Smart Blade Cutter features Ergo-Pull Smart-Retract technology. This retracts the blade when it loses contact with cutting surface, even if finger is still on the slider-button. Patent-pending pull vs. push ergonomic slider action reduces finger strain and helps prevent injury from extra force at the end of the cutting movement.
It is a ceramic knife, made from Zirconium oxide, much harder than steel, which means it does not have to be as sharp as steel and yet, it can be safe on the fingers.
This is a very sharp knife that rips through cardboard, paper, leather, vinyl, etc., like butter! And yet, it feels blunt to the finger. The blade is very well constructed. Sharp but safe
You can buy extra blades for this knife, which cost about $15 a piece, as of now, And the knife is priced at $19.52.
Since this knife was offered to me free for review, I have to admit I did not read the description about it carefully before ordering it. When it arrived, there was nothing really clear on the packaging about the special design of the cutting edge. So my first impression, observing how the blade edge did not "catch" my finger skin when touched lightly like sharp knives usually do, was that this nice knife came with a seriously defective blade. Fortunately the product page here anticipated my confusion, and cleared things up.
Basically this ceramic blade is ground at a shallow angle typical of precision "X-Acto" type blades, until just before the two angles would normally meet to form a thin cutting edge, where they are clipped off short by a more nearly obtuse one-sided grind angle. This is almost on a microscopic scale... in fact I did resort to looking at it under a microscope to see what was going on. The result is a very sharp but slightly blunt cutting edge, which cuts thin and/or compressible materials such as paper, leather, vinyl, etc. very well when they are firmly backed up, but is far less likely to slice into your soft flesh than a normal blade. Being both ceramic and microscopically blunt, I think it is safe to say that this edge will hold up a long time if used carefully.
Well the jury is still out in my mind about this blade. It does work very well on certain materials, but I really want to try it out on balsa wood... where I doubt it will work as well as a thin, keen steel edge. I will report back about that, as soon as I find some balsa wood.
The knife itself, well, I have no reservations about that. It is great. The finger hole provides positive orientation plus an easy way to apply down pressure, both without the "writer's cramp" type fatigue that comes from tightly gripping a conventional handle. Why this has not been the standard handle design for such knives, for decades already, beats me. I really like it.
Of course the instructions say to only use the Slice brand safety blades, but I found that generic steel "X-Acto" type blades fit right in. Of course they are more likely to cut my fingers plus are too long for the safety cap to cover properly, so I'm using them at my own risk. The handle is all plastic, but the locking collar is metal and that supports the blade directly against cutting pressure so I believe the whole thing will be quite durable.
I think this is a great tool.
Handy little knife. If you are looking for a sharp knife or razor to just cut up boxes, this would probably not be what you would be looking for. However, for those of you who like craft such as scrapbook, frame up pictures and matting, sew, and various other art projects, I think you will really like this product. You can easily cut freehand or shapes and patterns, particularly sewing patterns. Also, this company donates a portion of the price of this product to autism research. Handy tool for the crafter.
This knife is impressive. It is amazingly able to slice through the paper and vinyl I use for crafts without slicing my finger. I'm sure if I tried I could cut myself but obviously Im not going to test that. To the touch this blade seems pretty dull. There isn't a point on it like a metal blade would have. When I first looked at it, I thought it was defective.
The package doesn't really explain much about the ceramic blade. The info on the product page is helpful and informative.
I recommend this knife for the casual crafter or even the younger crafter. With supervision of course.
I used to use a utility knife to cut out coupons from the paper, but with little kids in the house I had switched to using scissors. After using this knife I have now switched to using this. It works like a utility knife on paper, but doesn't cut skin making it much safer than a metal knife. Personally I'd rather just have a long strait handle. The finger grip forces you to hold the knife in a single direction and while you can easily cut vertically downward, you can't really make a horizontal cut unless you take your finger out of the finger grip. I thought about taking off a point for this, but you can just as easily hold the knife without your finger in the finger grip. So far I've only used it on paper, which it cuts well, but I haven't tried with other material.
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