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The folding Stanley blade holders are ideal,cheap,and easily loaded. I always have a DMT diamond hone about,so even these "throw-away" blades,can be easily dressed up,and increased use obtained.

I would not use a knife for SWA,as it nicks the wire coating,just where Mr.corrosion likes to start,preferring a Thomas Betts peripheral cutter. That's just a personal thing...

I have two Spyderco legal-carry drop leaf pen-knifes,one orange,for work attire,and a black one for other times.

I have a lovely Buck folder,ATS-34 steel,shimmed bearing,leather belt holster...but it got an issue with "entitlement",as it locks,so it only gets occasional outings.

I would not be without a knife,if at all possible,which after all the bad press,is merely a "tool".

Knives are not dangerous. That adjective is reserved for people.

Nobody calls spoons,dangerous,when folk start to get fat...
 
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irvin folding utility knife for me.

i used a swiss army type knife for some swa etc but being able to swap blades is more convinient. i sharpen mine on a dmt then a waterstone which is overkill for a knife.

a dmt is a lot better than a waterstone/oil stone as they are diamon lapping plates (steel bars with industrial diamonds on the surface)

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I can't believe so many of you use Stanley knives for stripping cables. I was always taught, Both at work and college, that Stanleys are too sharp and make damaging the conductor more likely, I had a thorsman knife for ages, Sharp enough to get through the PVC, But not Copper, Fingers, Plasterboard etc....
Mind, That could've just bee Hull College's excuse for supplying us with Knives that you could ride bare 'bottom' to London on.
 
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I can't believe so many of you use Stanley knives for stripping cables. I was always taught, Both at work and college, that Stanleys are too sharp and make damaging the conductor more likely, I had a thorsman knife for ages, Sharp enough to get through the PVC, But not Copper, Fingers, Plasterboard etc....
Mind, That could've just bee Hull College's excuse for supplying us with Knives that you could ride bare 'bottom' to London on.
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your more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife as you slip more often.

anyway i like to keep a razor edge on my knifes, i can shave with some of mine (ive got straigh razors and the hones to sharpen them)

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Milwaukee fastback. Best folding knife I've had.

as for electricians knife the hultafors ELK, Under ÂŁ5 in axminister, and clip on snickers work wear if you wear them.
 
I've got one of those CK ones Gaz, quite happy with it for the price. I reach for it before I reach for a Stanley knife when stripping cable etc. Tend to reach for the Stanley knife for dirty jobs like scoring through plaster, and keep the CK for cable stripping. Goes through PVC like a hot knife through butter.
 
I have a couple of CK knives and never had a problem with them.

I don't like Stanley blades as they are brittle and when they snap you can get tiny fragments of blade shooting off in all direction, I wouldn't fancy one of those in my eye.

Regardless of make or type, keep it sharp. Learning to use an oil or whet stone correctly will make sharpening a blade dead easy.
 

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