SURGICAL ONLINE 100 Scalpel Blades #11 and includes One Handle #3

High quality, individually packed, sterilized blades that are perfect for crafters and hobbyists. I am not a surgeon so I cant attest to the medical quality of these, but they look and feel like other brands that are well known in the medical field (bard-parker, etc.) The handle is a little less weighty than im used to, but not by much. Installing the blades is easy and they fit snug and secure (always use a hemostat/pliers when installing a blade. DO NOT USE YOUR FINGERS or you will lose them) The blades themselves arent as flexible as the disposables, which is good for paper crafting and cutting rounded corners. They hold an edge well when cutting through heavy cardstock and paperboard. I've used a single blade for over 50 long cuts and its just now showing signs of dulling. At this rate it will take me 10 years to go through the entire box! Quick word of advice... *These blades are SHARP! I don't mean shaving sharp, I mean SHARP. I had my ring finger hanging out over the straight edge guide I was using to cut cardboard with. I am now missing the corner of my ring finger AND fingernail. Didn't even feel it til I saw it on the ground. Treat these with caution at all times! Save the foil in came in for when you're done with the blade so you can dispose of them safely (use a LOT of tape to wrap it, dont want the garbage men getting cut). At this price its a definite GREAT buy! An essential tool for paper crafts and scrapbooking.

Simple tool well crafted.

I got to use one of these for it's intended purpose. My wife got a sand grain sized piece of glass stuck in her foot, under the skin. Blades were already sterile so I was able to put one on and immediately go to work. I used the needle sharp tip to carefully pry back the skin around the puncture wound until I exposed the glass on the inside under the skin and it just fell out onto the blade. Tweezers weren't working and a sewing needle would have been too difficult for such precise work. Using with a self healing cutting board for making airbrush stencils they work great. A few of the blades have been broken out of the box, and the handle, a #3 doesn't really let the blades clip on all the way as far as I'd like but none have come off yet. The blades themselves are more than sharp enough for hobby use, and external medicine like splinters, removing corns and calluses, although curved finger blades are more precise for excising dead skin. For the price this can't be beat. Sharper than Xacto blades and cheaper. Add up how much 100 xacto blades would cost you...

I purchased this kind of by mistake. I mean I bought it on purpose, but since I'm not a surgeon or surgical tech, I was not familiar with the sizes of blades and differences in similar numbers. I would suggest you look up the number of the blade you are interested in and find a chart or picture that shows them side by side. It was a low enough price that I don't feel robbed. There are many blades so if you do any kind of wood working, leather works or other craft type work you will probably find a use for the blades. But these are small. Like smaller than any exacto blade I've used in the past. I thought this would be a different style blade to fit the foldable scalpel i got. It is small but great fo little odd things. Since the blades are so sharp they will not last long when used around the house or for hobby or bushcraft tasks. I thought i was getting a big refill for my folder but i was mistaken. So for the blades alone 4 or 5 stars. The handle I think is sub par. The shaft the blade slides onto is warped/bent, and slightly out of shape. This makes it difficult to slide a blade on or off. Since these are essentially razor blades, the likelihood of cutting yourself is moderate so exercise due caution. The handle seems durable enough, it's is just cheaply made with not enough attention to detail. Only 2 syars for the handle. But again, for 100 blades the price was fair enough.

I thought I was getting some sort of half-sharp Chinese stuff, but these arrived extremely sharp and, though the sterilization claims seemed dubious for $7, they all arrived in a very professional looking box in durable individual packages. The box says the company is headquartered in Miami Lakes. My doubts began to fade. I still can't guarantee anything about these 100% of course, but as someone who wasn't expecting much, and buying the cheapest blades on the market for light hobby finishing work for 3D printing, I was completely blown away. The only downside is that the "free handle" was a little gunky. I don't know why but it definitely is not what I would call sterile. There was something that looked like rust in the finger grip. I suppose anybody in the medical field wouldn't be buying this for the handle anyways. If you want something sharper, cheaper, and with a little more blade flex than Xacto, this is the way to go!

Very low cost and very sharp.

No instructions on fitting the blades. Figured it out pretty fast but it's a bit dangerous to have to fiddle around. I bought these because e-xacto raised the replacement blade price for a box of 100 #11 blades to an unreasonable price. I'm using these blades for model building and crafting hopefully they will be up to that use .

These arrived much earlier than expected. Such a great deal for 100 blades. I go through them quite fast and the bulk size is the way to go. I use these for Leather Crafting and they make precise cuts. I was buying them elsewhere. I Bought less for more, but now I "KNOW" and I'll be getting them here from now on. Great deal, Timely shipping, and good quality for my needs. I would recommend them to anyone doing leather crafting.