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Post by BUCKY on Oct 4, 2017 0:33:25 GMT -6
Have you ever had a modeling tool in your arsenal that just wouldn't give it up?  This is a lowly TESTORS #11 fixed blade cutter. I've used this one for over five years! It has carved, scraped drilled, been heated for melting plastic, cut insulation from wire, and prolly a few more things I forgot! I have plenty other new hobby knives, but just keep going back to this one!! |
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Post by Robbo on Oct 4, 2017 4:34:26 GMT -6
Jeez that is some knife
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Post by BUCKY on Oct 4, 2017 10:27:39 GMT -6
I've had new ones break, or go dull before finishing one build, but this one seems to be invincible! It may not last thru my next session in the hobby room, but if it goes, I can't complain!!!
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Post by JCON on Oct 4, 2017 10:30:21 GMT -6
That is amazing Bucky!!!  |
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Post by Dukemaddog on Oct 6, 2017 21:12:28 GMT -6
Brilliant! I have an Exacto handle that I keep going back to. It is stained red at the collet sleeve; whether paint or blood I don't know. Still, I always use that, even if it 'bites' me somewhat often.
I also have one of those that just seems to keep going like Timex. Good blades.
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Post by dustymojave on Nov 28, 2017 2:39:01 GMT -6
I have an X-Acto No. 1 that I bought in 1964. While I have many other #1s, #2s, #5s and one #6 knife, and I have a few surgical scalpels (wife was a nurse for 40 years), I always default back to that original #1. It's had a few blades in it, but the one blade I've kept putting back in it since the late 60s is a #17 chisel blade. I use it often as a putty knife. I have another # 1 that I keep a sharp chisel blade in, but that original blade is still amazingly sharp. Not as sharp as new, but still cuts styrene quite well. After applying putty, I often use the same blade to scrape the dried putty to rough shape. Maybe that use or the way I wipe putty in place sort of hones the edge? Another favorite blade is a #16 scriber blade. Like Duke's, my old favorite #1 handle has black paint in the groove near the collett from some spill many decades ago. That identifies it from all my others. All the paint on the surface wore off long ago, but in the groove it remains.
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Nov 28, 2017 8:03:03 GMT -6
Takes a lickin and keeps on stickin.
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Post by BUCKY on Nov 28, 2017 9:29:26 GMT -6
Slicin' and dicin'!!
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Post by JCON on Nov 28, 2017 10:06:52 GMT -6
Love trusty ol' tools!!! |
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