X-ACTO X-Life #11 Classic Fine Point Blades - Bulk Pack of 100 Blades per Box (X611) - Silver - High-Performance Cutting Tools Review

I am a Graphic Designer and have been using X-Acto #11 Blades for over 24 years and over the years I have never been disappointed with their product. I LOVE X-Acto Blades and get excited when a new pack of #11 Blades opens. A small box lifting the lid then flipping down the brown wax paper to show it in all its glory, all lined up perfectly. a whole group of new, razor-sharp blades. Then carefully remove the blade from the packaging. sometimes the oil with which the blades were smeared gets on…

5/6/2020: Well, they screwed up again. Made in China, matte packaging label, so much oil that the bluing dissolves. There have been a lot of near-surgical blades out there for the past few months, but today they seem to be making and supplying fakes again. I don't know what else to call these blades, I mean I really feel ripped off. I use these hundreds of packs at a rate of about one a month. I have bought many X-Acto blades in my life. I'm putting a date on this review so I can add it later…

I started using X-Acto knives when I was 11 (1963) to assemble and tune car model kits and other hobbies. It was a knife that my older brother used on his own car models. When I became a graphic designer in 1975, X-Acto knives were the premier artistic tool and the industry standard. We didn't have computers back then and we cut everything by hand for reproductions. No other brand of blade has ever been used in the advertising and graphic arts industries. Since then I have been using them for…