{"id":699,"date":"2005-04-04T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T23:07:35","slug":"snap-blade-knif-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/snap-blade-knif-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap Blade Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten more recommendations for a particular pocket knife than any other tool. Knives are the original tool; everyone has one, and after 10,000 years there&#8217;s endless variety. They are intensely personal, too. I&#8217;ve seen and tried many of the suggested knives I&#8217;ve received, and I&#8217;ve published a few of the more well-proven ones.<\/p>\n<p>So, after many trials, here is the one I actually carry: it&#8217;s a dollar plastic box cutter. There is no knife lighter weight, none cheaper, few as sharp, and not very many as quick. I can open it one handed in less than a second from the moment I reach for it. It is as fast as a sheath knife. Keeping its edge a razor is as easy as nicking off the tip. This plastic snap blade is as thin as a pen and so light that I carry in my pants pocket without even knowing it is there; no special holster needed, and it won&#8217;t wear the pocket out. It&#8217;s cheap enough that I hide one in all the clothes I ordinarily wear. I&#8217;m not afraid to lose it, and yes, I keep it away from airports.<\/p>\n<p>The cheaper the version of the box cutter the better. You don&#8217;t want rugged metal ones, like those offered by respectable tool companies; they are bigger, heavier, costlier and no better. What you want is a cheap all-plastic made-in-China throw-away that should cost about a buck. Mine are day-glo orange for easy retrieval if I lay one down.<\/p>\n<p>Other than it being butt-ugly I can&#8217;t think of why I would want one fancier. I use this one at least 5 times a day, and its quick handiness gives me pleasure each time.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bargain pocket knife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[1350,2307,2315],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11137,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/11137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}