Hyde Tools 60110 Black & Silver Square Point Knife

Every rule above compresses to one: the edge must move along the material, never merely into it. Long full-length strokes; pressure light enough that the slice, not the push, parts the stock. Blade low. A low working angle shears material against its backing; a steep angle chisels and snags. No plunge starts. The end of this knife is a right angle on purpose; cuts begin at an edge, a punched hole, or a scribed opening — never in the field of a sheet. The half-length gate. About 3" of soft stock is this blade's clean-cut ceiling; thicker material means the ladder's next rung, not more force. Edge care, on the record here: the accepted claims give this knife a hardened high-carbon steel blade, and high-carbon cutlery steel is the sharpen-and-return type — a few passes on a fine stone at the first sign of drag, a strop if the work is fussy, and a dry wipe after damp or adhesive-adjacent work, because carbon steel blooms rust where stainless shrugs. The grind behind the edge (flat versus hollow) is not in the record for the straight-edge trio, so no sharpening advice here assumes one .