Brief introduction
A utility knife is any type of knife used for general manual work purposes. Such knives were originally fixed-blade knives with durable cutting edges suitable for rough work such as cutting cordage, cutting/scraping hides, butchering animals, cleaning fish scales, reshaping timber, and other tasks. Craft knives are small utility knives used as precision-oriented tools for finer, more delicate tasks such as carving and paper cutting.
Different names of utility knife:
- In British, Australian and New Zealand English a utility knife is known as a
Stanley knife, this name is a generic trademark named after Stanley Works, a manufacturer of such knives. - In Israel and Switzerland, utility knife are known as Japanese knives.
- In India, the Philippines, France, Italy, Egypt, and Germany, they are known as cutter. Other names for the utility knife tool are box cutter or boxcutter, hand cutting tool, box opener, paper cutter, carton cutter.