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№31550

Hyde Tools 31550 Quick-Change Razor Knife with 1 Blade

BEST FOR · Quick-Change Blade System: The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks.
MODEL 31550 · SKU H-31550 · UPC 079423315503
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$18.95 PER UNIT · SINGLE UNIT UNIT PRICE

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Quick-Change Blade System: The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks.
Metal Frame
The sturdy metal frame securely holds a single-edge razor blade, providing reliable stability and precise cutting performance
Hyde specifies
Smooth and Precise Cutting
Designed for slicing through wallcovering, paper, foil, and other materials with ease, delivering clean cuts whether you're working on or off the wall
Hyde specifies
Quick and Easy Blade Replacement
The quick-change system makes blade replacement simple and fast, ensuring you can maintain sharpness without delays
Hyde specifies
Hardwood Handle
The knife is equipped with a hardwood handle, offering a comfortable grip and classic durability, making it a reliable tool for frequent use
Hyde specifies
Quick-Change Blade System
The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks
Hyde specifies
THE COUNTER · PRODUCT FIT Straight answers. If it's the wrong tool for your job, we'll say so.

Choose this when: Quick-Change Blade System: The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks.

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Is this the right tool for your job?

✓CHOOSE THIS WHEN
  • Quick-Change Blade System: The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks.
  • Metal Frame: The sturdy metal frame securely holds a single-edge razor blade, providing reliable stability and precise cutting performance.
  • Hardwood Handle: The knife is equipped with a hardwood handle, offering a comfortable grip and classic durability, making it a reliable tool for frequent use.
✕DO NOT FORCE THE FIT
  • Rough-cutting strips off the roll — a knife drawn freehand across a springy roll-width of dry paper has nothing to bear against and wanders off the mark; that cut belongs to the 34015 shears, whose long blades sever unsupported material cleanly.
  • Not a scraper: soaked-paper removal is the shaver trio's field work and the putty-knife line's detail work, and a razor knife pressed into scraping duty chips its edge and gouges the wall.
  • Not the steering knife: trims that follow curves, bullnose corners, and arched casings favor the utility line's 9mm snap-off (42045), whose slim tip tracks a profile the way this rigid frame cannot.
  • And not a demolition or utility blade — prying staples, cutting carpet, whittling shims.
  • The frame holds a razor blade, and razor blades answer force by snapping.

How the pros run it

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Slice, don't push

the blade should always be moving along its edge as well as into the material — a drawing cut at a low angle parts wet paper cleanly where a perpendicular push bunches and tears it. Let the guide steer: in guided cuts, the knife's job is to keep steady contact against the straightedge while your hand supplies only motion; the moment your wrist starts steering, the line wanders. One continuous stroke: stops are jags; plan the pull, breathe, and go. The fresh-edge cadence: a blade per strip on wet trims, sooner on double cuts. Keep the frame clean: paste creeping into the blade seat is what makes any quick-change mechanism feel worn; wipe the head when you wipe the blade.

Asked at the counter

BUYER QUESTIONS ANSWERED BEFORE THE CART, NOT AFTER THE RETURN
What replacement blades does it take?
Standard single-edge razor blades, per the pattern the claims name — no Hyde blade SKU for this knife appears in this line; confirm supply before relying on a branded refill.
Razor knife or snap-off for wallpaper trimming?
Both are professionally correct. Rigid guided straight cuts and double-cut seams favor this frame; curve-following and mid-strip edge renewal favor the 9mm snap-off. Habit decides the rest.
How often should I change the blade?
Per strip on wet trims is the honest cadence, and before every double cut. Wet paper tears before it warns.
Can it cut strips off the roll?
It shouldn't — freehand cuts across unsupported dry paper wander. Use the 34015 shears at the table and keep this knife for the wall and the straightedge.
What else does it cut?
Hyde's copy claims wallcovering, paper, and foil, on or off the wall — guided table trims, mural panel edges, slitting strips lengthwise.
How long is it overall?
Not stated in the official record — no length specification is claimed for this model.
Does the mechanism need tools?
Hyde claims a quick-change mechanism that makes replacement "simple and fast"; the record does not describe the mechanism's operation further , so this page doesn't either.

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Model & SKUModel 31550 · SKU H-31550 · UPC 079423315503
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Reviews

Customer Reviews

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Doug Hudson (Utica, US)
Called it a “warclub”.

Just like the old days

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Brian Moore (Riverside, US)
Perfect tool

These are perfect tools to use to clean old paint off of 100 year old windows . The handle makes it easier to scrape the window than trying to hold a razor blade between your fingers.

Specs & documentation

Full spec sheet
catalog product name
Quick-Change Razor Knife with 1 Blade — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official family claim
Metal frame holds single-edge razor blade. — OFFICIAL FAMILY CLAIM APPLICABLE TO EXACT LISTED MODEL
official family claim
Hardwood handle. — OFFICIAL FAMILY CLAIM APPLICABLE TO EXACT LISTED MODEL
official variant identity
31550 — OFFICIAL EXACT VARIANT
official description
Easily cut, slice, and trim various materials with the Hyde Quick-Change Razor Knife. Designed for precision and durability, this tool is perfect for handling wallcovering, paper, foil, and more, offering smooth, controlled slicing whether on or off the wall. Key Features: Quick-Change Blade System: The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks. Metal Frame: The sturdy metal frame securely holds a single-edge razor blade, providing reliable stability and precise cutting performance. Hardwood Handle: The knife is equipped with a hardwood handle, offering a comfortable grip and classic durability, making it a reliable tool for frequent use. Benefits: Smooth and Precise Cutting: Designed for slicing through wallcovering, paper, foil, and other materials with ease, delivering clean cuts whether you're working on or off the wall. Quick and Easy Blade Replacement: The quick-change system makes blade replacement simple and fast, ensuring you can maintain sharpness without delays. Durable and Reliable Construction: The combination of a metal frame and hardwood handle ensures long-lasting durability, making this knife a dependable tool in your collection. Comfortable to Use: The hardwood handle provides a secure, comfortable grip, reducing hand fatigue and improving control during extended use. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Quick-Change Blade System: The knife features a quick-change mechanism, allowing you to easily replace the blade, ensuring you always have a sharp edge for your tasks. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Metal Frame: The sturdy metal frame securely holds a single-edge razor blade, providing reliable stability and precise cutting performance. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Hardwood Handle: The knife is equipped with a hardwood handle, offering a comfortable grip and classic durability, making it a reliable tool for frequent use. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Smooth and Precise Cutting: Designed for slicing through wallcovering, paper, foil, and other materials with ease, delivering clean cuts whether you're working on or off the wall. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Quick and Easy Blade Replacement: The quick-change system makes blade replacement simple and fast, ensuring you can maintain sharpness without delays. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Durable and Reliable Construction: The combination of a metal frame and hardwood handle ensures long-lasting durability, making this knife a dependable tool in your collection. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
official feature
Comfortable to Use: The hardwood handle provides a secure, comfortable grip, reducing hand fatigue and improving control during extended use. — OFFICIAL EXACT MODEL
Hyde official catalog evidence ↗Hyde Tools manufacturer source ↗
$18.95SKU H-31550