kctyphoon
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The difference being you were able to figure out how to install the blade, which is the step that caught most.
The advantage of the fastback is it's just that - fast. And the pocket clip / belt clip is the best Ive ever used. If you make things simple and easy to use - then people will actually use them. It opens and closes effortlessly with one hand. The way it's pointed on one end makes it's effortless to get back in your pocket with one hand, and the clip will ACTUALLY clip around your pocket without extra effort.. It's a "no thought involved", "no wasted steps/movement" "Im not cursing at it" tool.
You can do everything with one hand while your other hand is busy, never have to even look down or move a leg to get it back into your pocket, and your not fishing to get the clip onto your pocket, onto a belt. How often have people had a hand busy and tried to get something back in their pocket and clipped onto their pants with those stupid thin stamped steel pocket clips - and missed - letting the knife fall deep into your pocket? Then you have to fish for it, take gloves off if you're wearing any. It gets annoying pretty quickly.
That model DeWalt is just a standard style utility knife that folds in half. There's just nothing about it that makes me want to bring or use that over the Milwaukee when I have both sitting in a drawer.
If I remember, the DeWalt uses a liner lock to fold/unfold. So when you're pushing that lock over to beging moving your fingers 3 different ways just to fold it AFTER you retracted the blade, and then trying to unfold it with a thumb when it doesnt have a great edge to do that, then push the blade back out - you coulda had the fastback opened and closed 4 or 5 times at least.
Want a test - compare removing both from a pocket, opening , make a cut, closing, reinsert into pocket with the clip sticking out - and just do that 3 times. That's enough to realize how much easier the Milwaukee is.
That DeWalt model (if I have the model right) is a knife you're gonna open, leave open, and keep putting down if that's something you use alot. The Milwaukee is gonna come out of your pocket, and go BACK in your pocket with every use - cause it's just that easy to do it.
And yes I know how to remove the DeWalt blade. It's a simple push button like most other knives. The DeWalt holds a couple spare blades - but so does the fastback 2. Honestly, seeing how the blades are double sided and you always have one extra edge - I like the slim design of the original fastback over the fastback 2 - and I'd just make sure to have some extra blades on the truck on in the house instead.
I have a hand full of the original fastbacks floating around, the fastback 2, the DeWalt - and probably half a dozen other brands I bought just to try and play with. They're cheap enough and I had pipe dreams of doing a video a long time ago.
The fastback is also a more deep carry pocket clip over the DeWalt. With the DeWalt being so short and fat, IMHO they should made the pocket clip deeper on it. I can absolutely see bending down to get something, and your leg pushing it out of your pocket.
Lastly - the folding DeWalt NEEDS you to retract blade in order for it to completely fold and lock. BUT - if you DONT retract the blade first, you can still TRY to fold it. The way you keep your hand positioned if your doing all that one handed - if you're not paying attention - you will learn the hard way to retract the blade first.
I bought a Boker automatic knife a few months ago (spring broke in a ****** week btw) and like a ***** cut my palm and a finger open within the first 5 minutes of owning it. I'd hate to imagine the damage a new utility knife blade would do to the tip of a finger accidentally pushing it.closed and not EXPECTING a blade to be in the way.
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