X-ACTO Retract-A-Blade Retractable Knife | Type A Handle | X3204

X-Acto is a leader in innovative cutting blades, knives and office supply products. Today, X-ACTO continues to present an outstanding selection of products created to handle limitless tasks. All the X-ACTO products are designed with the comfort of the user in mind so that any task can be accomplished with accuracy and ease.

Fully retractable, safe #1 knife Soft, comfortable grip with triangle shape for extra control. Use for delicate, precision cutting, trimming and stripping. Easily cuts paper, plastic, balsa, thin metal, cloth, film and acetate. Includes #11 classic fine point blade that is easily replaceable. Anti-roll handle Knife.

The original knife was invented in the 1930s by Sundel Doniger, a Jewish Polish immigrant to the United States. He started a medical supply company in 1917 producing medical syringes and scalpels with removable blades. This would later be his inspiration for the X-Acto brand of knives. He had planned to sell it to surgeons as a scalpel but it was not acceptable, because it could not be cleaned. His brother-in-law, Daniel Glück (father of poet and 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Louise Glück), suggested that it might be a good craft tool. In 1930 a house designer asked Doniger if he could create something for him that would help him crop some advertisements, Doniger agreed and created what we now know as the X-Acto Knife.          

• Fully retractable, safe #1 Knife
• Easily replace blade as with any X-ACTO #1 Knife
• Soft, comfort grip with triangle shape for extra controlฃ
• For delicate, precision cutting, trimming and stripping
• Easily cuts paper, plastic, balsa, thin metal, cloth, film, and acetate
• Anti-roll handle
• Includes #11 Classic Fine Point Blade
• Compatible Blades : #11, #16
• Handle : Type A