Why an OLFA KNIFE should be in your EDC

The OLFA LA-X  is more than just a rugged utility knife sharing both Dewalt colors and the code for the world’s third busiest airport.

This is a knife that handles all the cutting and prying you’ll come across during construction and renovation. A tool so handy, it qualifies without question for Brad’s every day carry.

This has been my go-to knife for the last 10 or 15 years.

Brad, Losing Track of Time

Paint can to open, anyone? Packaging to destroy?

When your OLFA blade gets dull, all you need to do is snap it off and presto! You have a new sharp tip.

Legend has it that Yoshio Okada, founder of OLFA Corporation, invented the world’s first Snap-Off Blade Cutter back in 1956, after eating many segmented chocolate bars and analyzing the snap edges of broken glass.

OLFA comes from two Japanese words, which literally mean “to break a blade”. And the parallelogram logo is inspired by the shape of a snap-off blade.

The positive stops make it easy to set, but they don’t lock, so they don’t get in the way of you doing your job as fast as possible.

Changing the blade is as easy as sliding the old one out and slipping in a new one, which locks in place.

The knife has a handy hole for a lanyard, but Brad doesn’t bother with that.

 I just keep it in my side pocket on my Carhartts.

Brad “Quick Draw” McMeekin

Specifically the side pocket on his right side. Systems increase efficiency, don’tcha know.

Don’t be like Tiffany. Her anti-systems personal policy causes her to lose a LOT of time searching for lost objects.

“If I had one an OLFA Knife, I probably wouldn’t know where it is.”

Tiffany, Generously Offering Her Lack of Organization as a Cautionary Tale

We digress.

Check out the knife here https://amzn.to/3p781pH or see it in action in Brad’s review: 

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