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After reviewing products that are supposed to be good for opening clam shell packaging, and for cutting thick cardboard, I bought four(4) different types and was totally disappointed with each. In my opinion, if your thinking about buying one of these “special” cutters, don’t. The inexpensive utility knife and the less expensive box cutter does a much better job, and are more versatile and reliable. These have replaceable blades and the others do not. Another option would be a pair of heavy duty scissors which could also be used, although not as efficiently.UPDATEKnife weak locking mechanism. I’ve dropped it a couple of times (from about 8”) and knife sprung open, spilling blades about the floor.

I frequently use utility knifes, especially for opening all the boxes we get from Amazon orders. I had misplaced one of my knifes so I decided to try this one. Unfortunately the blades could not be properly inserted into the first knife I received. I couldn’t even use it with a single blade. I contacted Amazon and they sent me a replacement. The replacement works PERFECTLY. And it cost much less than the utility knife I lost. Had the first one worked I would have rated this knife with 5 stars because the replacement knife has worked as advertised. But since the first one didn’t work I only rated this knife 4 stars because I wanted to be honest about my overall experience.

Love this & plan to order another! Took away one star because it doesn't come with any instructions & it took me awhile to figure out that the additional replacement blades are in a compartment within the box cutter itself, and also that the original blade was already inserted & to figure out how to un-retract. I'm not a "handy" person, so instructions would have been helpful.But it's really a 5-star product overall, because it broke down boxes like a dream & was so easy to hold, yet seems very sturdy.