- Slice safety blades' unique cutting edge might seem dull, but it cuts right through your material while keeping you safe! Slice blades are finger-friendly and safe to the touch.
- Other blades are dangerously sharp. Slice blades start at a safe and effective sharpness and stay there 11 times longer. Installed rounded-tip blade guards against punctures..
- Ambidextrous ring handle with cross-hatch grip gives precise control for detailed cuts and intricate shapes..
- Perfect for paper, cardstock, leather crafting, vinyl, quilting applique, corrugated plastic, crafting felt, stencils, washi tape and many more crafting/hobbyist materials..
- Alternate safety blade styles available: pointed tip, curved edge rounded tip, seam ripper. Cut your material, not yourself, with Slice safety blades..
Product Description
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The Slice 10580 Precision ’s unique handle offers an
innovative finger grip that gives the user precise control for
detailed cuts and intricate shapes. Its non-slip inner ring
coating and cross-hatched grip ensure that the tool responds to
your every move, while the safety cap protects against accidents
between uses. This lightweight cutter ships with a Slice 10518
straight-edge, rounded tip ceramic craft blade that lasts 11.2
times longer than comparable steel blades. All Slice ceramic
blades are non-sparking, non-magnetic, ly inert, safe up
to 1600 degrees Celsius, and never rust.
From the Manufacturer
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Why Ceramic Blades? Hardness & Sharpness.
On the Mohs hardness scale, Metal blades are rated 5.5 vs.
Ceramic blades at 8.2, second only to diamonds. Harder edges
maintain sharpness longer, cut better, and require replacement
far less frequently. In fact, depending on use, you can go weeks
or months without having to replace a single ceramic blade. They
also last up to 10x longer!
Saving Money Just Makes Sense. A single Slice ceramic blade is
equivalent up to 10 high-end double-sided metal blades or up to
20 high-end single sided metal blades. In terms of safety, less
blade changes also mean less risk of injury.
Precise Control The Slice 10580 Precision ’s unique handle
offers an innovative finger grip that gives the user precise
control for detailed cuts and intricate shapes.
Compatible with Many Blades This lightweight cutter ships with a
Slice 10518 straight-edge, rounded tip ceramic craft blade that
lasts 11.2 times longer than comparable steel blades. It is
compatible with blades: 10518, 10519, 10520, 10532, 10536, 10537
Non-slip Inner Ring Its non-slip inner ring coating and
cross-hatched grip ensure that the tool responds to your every
move, while the safety cap protects against accidents between
uses.
Our safety is in the blade Because Slice brings safety to
ceramic cutters. The technology for advanced ceramics has existed
for years but Slice is the first company to harness its
advantages and innovate a new breed of safety knives. We
developed a blade-manufacturing process that creates an
effective, durable, and finger-friendly edge that’s not available
in any other ceramic cutter.
About the Startup Describe your product in 3 words.
Safe. Elegant. Innovative.
How did you come up with the idea for this product?
Slice has a commitment to donate 1% of all sales to fund Autism
research, primarily through our main benefactor, Lucile Packard
Children's Hospital Stanford University.
What makes your product special?
Our proprietary blade manufacturing process combines a unique
sharpening angle and thicker ceramic material, resulting in a
very unique patented blade that’s safer to the touch vs. metal,
and requires pressure to initiate the cut — via our handles.
Hence, general blade handling and blade-replacement with Slice
ceramic blades is infinitely safer vs. those same activities with
traditional metal blades, yet still allows for a wide range of
cutting applications.
What has been the best part of your startup experience?
You can’t simply duplicate a metal blade in ceramic material and
achieve what we have created with our current products. There’s a
tremendous a of engineering required on not only the blades
and handles individually, but there’s also an incredible a
of engineering required on the combination of the handles and the
blades working together in order to produce the desired balance
of safer-usage and cutting capability. Even today, for our next
generation of products that are currently under development, we
spend the majority of our time finding the right balance between
handle and blade through trial and error and what seems like
endless prototypes. The best part definitely has to be seeing
peoples first-time reactions when cutting cardboard with Slice
and they realize how awesome the Slice ceramic blade is.