Exacto Aluminum Precision Hobby Knife w/#11 #10 # 16 #17 Blades Crafts Art

Description

Use this top-quality, precision knife for your next project.  It is the ideal tool for trimming and cutting of lightweight materials.  The sete includes five assorted blades.
Features:
#1 light duty aluminum handle knife
Aluminum handle and collet 5.6" (143mm), including blade
Handle diameter: 0.31" (8mm)
For ages 12 and up
Contents:
#1 light duty aluminum handle knife
2 #11 fine point blades
1 #10 general purpose curved blade
1 #16 stencil blade
1 #17 chisel blade
Included blade handle fits blade types from most leading manufacturers, including X-acto, Excel, and Huron.
Item is comparable to:
X-acto X5211
Excel 19001
Huron HASK6905
Hobbico / Revell RMXR6905
Fiskars Light Duty
Demystifying blade quality:
Substantially all branded blades utilize either T10 or SK5 grades of steel.  If blade quality (which primarily is suggestive of how long a blade can be expected to keep its edge, and thus how often you'll need to replace it) factors into your buying decision, you may wish to investigate the type of steel used before making your blade purchase.  In addition, the quality of the blade manufacturing process also varies from factory to factory.  Unfortunately there's no easy industry-standard method of quantifying and presenting such manufacturing process quality differences, so in this respect, it's "buyer beware".  Our blades use T10 steel, are manufactured in the same factories and on the same production lines as many branded blades sold nationally, and in fact, are generally identical in every respect other than packaging to much of the branded product widely sold through bricks-and-mortar hobby stores.
Demystifying blade / knife handle compatibility:
Generally speaking, light duty blades (those with 1/4" shanks) should be paired with light duty knife handles; medium duty blades (the majority of those with 3/8" shanks) should be paired with medium duty handles, and the larger blades (such as #26 whittling blades, pull/razor saws, and certain other specialty use items, most of which also have 3/8" shanks) should be used with heavy duty knife handles.  The blade shank is the squared off part of the blade that slots into the knife handle.  It's physically possible to fit 1/4" shank into 3/8" collet, but it's not
recommended.  Because light duty blades are mostly shorter than medium duty blades, the cutting edge of light duty blades may feel unnaturally close to the thicker collet of a medium duty handle.  And it's not possible at all to fit a 3/8" shank into a 1/4" handle.
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Shipping
: This item is shipped from Illinois by a corporation owned and operated within the US.