EPIX3204 - X-acto Retract-A-Blade Knife

excellent! Only change I would ask for - is a rubber gripper area on the handle....

I wanted an X-acto knife I could leave in the pen basket on my workbench that won't cut me when I stick my hand in there. This fills the bill.

Es una buena Heramienta

Plastic breaks easily, threads strip, and it feels flimsy.

Great handle works better than expected

I work as a sign installer and have over a decade of sign making experience. One of the occupational hazards of working with knives every day is that you can slice the heck out yourself very easily. This is my blade holder of choice, but I have one minor complaint about it: it breaks easily. This would be a much better product if it were made of aluminum or steel. I have now broken two of these by dropping them on the ground. Other than that, these are great knives.

Absolutely unsafe garbage. All plastic, except the collar for the blade... you cannot tighten down on the collar without stripping the plastic and it lets the blades go anywhere they want. I literally threw it away because I didn’t want anyone else to come into contact with it.

While I have had this for several years, I do not use it often.The Good:Lightweight, two types of grip (rubbery using the middle stop, metal-knurled fully open), decent balance with a small bias towards the blade part.The Bad:The stops and the mechanism to hold the stops are plastic. There are pieces of metal (spring attachment point, the metal knurled "blade holder" that holds the blade), but all the parts used to stop the blade from sliding back into the body are plastic. So, they wear out and the blade holder slides up while you are trying to cut. The springy mechanism is not strong, so moderate force can cause the the blade holder to slide up.On several occasions, I have almost cut myself because the blade holder slipped, which caused me to loose control of the knife.Pretty dangerous.