NEWS – What is the main function of your multi-tool? How many of you answered “opening boxes”? Yep, me too. The Outdoor Edge Sidewinder is pocket-friendly box cutter that features a locking blade with easily replaceable standard utility razor blades, both flathead and Phillips screwdrivers, a bottle opener, prybar, and pocket clip. This tool will fit right into your EDC and it won’t make your wallet weep since it’s only $9.95 on Amazon.
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This would be nice to have, but is another thing to remember to carry around. The only thing that is on me 100% of time is my Apple Watch. So the obvious question becomes: have you come across any Apple Watch bands with an integrated box cutter? It seems one could include a tiny retractable blade at the end of the band. Now that would be so useful in my day-to-day amazon box opening 🙂
like this?
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/artya-watch-buckle-folding-knife/
someone used to make a belt buckle dagger that sheathed between the two layers of the belt
way back in the day i appropriated the idea to make a little sliver of a knife for a brother who was spending a lot of time overseas…he wore some wide thick watch band that was popular then, so it worked
Yes! Well, I was thinking more along the lines of a retractable blade rather than a foldout one, but the end result is the same. But it seems Artya doesn’t sell it separately from the watch, so it’s neither an Apple Watch band, nor can I buy it and find some sort of adapter.
Thomas, awesome idea! I just did some googling and surprisingly there’s very little available. Have you heard of the Leatherman Tread band? Well, there’s an adapter that lets you use it with your Apple watch. I think it looks hideous but maybe you’d like it 😉
https://amzn.to/3j1RHmu
Yes, that definitely is hideous 🙂 And all I need is a box cutter or tiny blade as Craig suggested.
Hi Julie, after searching high and low, I haven’t seen any watch bands that do this. The next best thing would be a credit-card size cutter that could go into Apple’s iPhone magnetic credit card holder. Since I carry my iPhone nearly all the time too. But all the cc-sized tools are at least twice as thick as a credit card, leaving no space in the wallet for actual credit cards 🙁
So I ended up with a do-it-yourself solution: sharpen one of the corners of my Apple Card! All it took is a Dremel tool, a metal credit card and, voila, a box cutter that takes no extra room in my wallet 🙂
Genius!!
amazon just dropped a couple of these on your doorstep
i ordered them to replace the fugitive cutters colonizing some corner in our home
a bit heavy but easy-to-use
a positive lock ( i have a longstanding bias against OTF cutlery)
and the bottle opener actually works
all-in-all, worth the bucks
btw…you can sharpen plastic credit cards as well…a simple chisel grind and you are good to go
Thanks for the first hand report Craig!