Product Features
- New twin blade design allows the user to alternate between two blades without carrying more than one knife
- InstantChange feature allows the user to replace dull blades in seconds
- Easy access blade storage holds up to 9 blades for fast and easy blade changes
- Knife Includes 2 straight and 2 hook blades
- Interlocking blade sliders ensure only one blade is extended at a time (patent-pending)
Product Description
From the Manufacturer
The Bostitch Twin Blade Knife is ideal for all roofing, flooring, and general contracting applications. It is the world's first knife that allows users to alternate between two blades without carrying more than one knife. Because of its unique design, this knife saves users time by letting them switch between two blades by simply retracting one blade and extending the other without changing anything. This allows the user to work a little longer without having to stop and replace a dull blade every few minutes. Switching between a hooked blade and a standard blade has never been easier or faster. The knife has interlocking blade sliders to ensure that only one blade is extended at a time (patent-pending). The Bostitch twin blade knife comes complete with two straight blades and two hook blades. This knife gives contractors and serious do-it-yourselfers more options….whether they prefer to load two different blades or just want to use two of the same. The knife's InstantChange feature allows the user to replace a blade in seconds by performing three simple steps: press the button located on the tool's nose, remove the blade, and then insert the replacement blade. It also provides easy-access blade storage that holds up to nine blades for fast and easy blade changes. In total, this new knife has a storage capacity of 11 blades, if you count the two loaded in the front and the nine stored in the rear. Rubber comfort grips located on both the top and bottom of the knife help to minimize fatigue and reduce slippage.
Product Description
2512-3118 Features: -Utility knife.-Twin blade design allows the user to alternate between two blades without carrying more than one knife.-InstantChange feature allow the user to replace dull blades in seconds.-Easy access blade storage holds up to 9 blades for fast and easy blade changes.-Interlocking blade sliders ensure only one blade is extended at a time.-Carded. Includes: -Includes 2 straight and 2 hook blades.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
How to install/replace the blades on the 10-501 knife - A "Primmer" November 21, 2011
By farmnerd
Since it was supposed to be so easy to do, Stanley made sure that the directions on blade installation and replacement were non-existent on the package and on their website. That's some bold corporate confidence for you. So the knife has gotten rapped on here for this reason.
Once the blade manipulations were conquered, I really appreciated that this knife delivered as promised. It is very convenient to have a single knife available with multiple blade configurations possible. The knife's balance and grip is the best that I've ever used. A person's knuckles are well protected from abrasion by the drop down design of the nose.
The blades are installed very easily, and you don't have to use the GI Joe Shaolin Kung Fu Super Death Grip technique, by the following procedure: slide one of the blade extension buttons forward, push the small black right/left selector switch/button at the nose to the same side as the extended extension button, partially slide the blade into the front receptor slot (while holding the right/left selector button in position), finish sliding the blade into the slot by setting the blade tip onto a surface and sliding the knife body down onto the blade, releasing the right/left selector button after the blade is in position.
Removing the blade the first few times works best by gripping with pliers, but as the mechanism is broken in, the blades are removed easily by hand (as with all razor knives preferably a gloved one). Just remember that little right/left switch on top of the knife.
This is easier than conventional razor knives and the mechanism seems more stable and durable to me.
Practice with one or two blades for a couple of minutes and you're set for life.
I like Bostitch. I was hoping for this knife to be a winner. It's a great idea to put 2 knives on one handle, but it needs a little work if you use your tools in a heavy duty sort of way. I bought this so I could use a hook blade in one slot and a straight blade in the other. I used this knife (while roofing) for a month or two before the grip for the first knife popped off... rendering it useless. So now its just a utility knife - and an off-centered utility knife because the blade is a bit awkward on the right side. I'm sure I'll still use it when I don't have another knife handy in the shop. But still, it only took a couple for this knife to become an ornament on the peg board.
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