STANLEY0-10-598 Utility Knife foldable, Silver

A great little knife! I’ve bought 3 of them, and always carry a freshly sharpened one in my pocket.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I carry this little knife every day for work, started carrying it outside of work. The bulk blades are less expensive than the other Stanley knife blades.

I have had the 10-049 US version of this knife for several years. I use it to mark the base lines for hand cut dove tails along with knife walls for various purposes when doing joinery cuts using hand saws (a-la Paul Sellers). I was going to purchase a circle marking gauge for marking the base lines for the dove tails but decided to give this knife a try. My concern with the circle marking gauge was the sharpening of the cutters and finding replacements. I must say I do like the smaller size of this knife and thiner smaller blades. I feel like the smaller narrower blades give me better visibility when marking and create a thiner cutline resulting in cleaner dovetails. Besides the ability to resharpen the blades of these knives while still in the handle. I was also able to pickup a package of 50 replacement blades for the this 10-598 for about $25, which will literally last me a lifetime

I bought this because my wife and I were arguing over who was the rightful owner of the little silver stanley knife.Well I bought it originally, but blades were pricey. So eventually I just accepted that I had to sharpen it.First knife was a Stanley 10-049. Well about a month ago I happened to see some blades, reasonably priced, that "Looked" like they should fit my 10-049. Well they did not quite. Wifes birthday came and I was looking at little stanley knives again. They had this one for 15$. Comes with no blades. But the blades I bought a month back fit. And I have 50 of them.So the old wife got the old knife, and I got the new, with lots of blades that fit. And we are both happy.Thank you Stanley and Amazon!

I bought this knife mainly because Paul Sellers recommended it. It's exactly the one that he uses. He's a rather famous woodworker who's into teaching after a 40-year career as a furniture maker. Stanley sells a plastic-handle version in the US for less and I suspect that it would work as well.The blade on this knife (like that of the other one that I just mentioned) folds into the handle, but in folding it in you have to guide it in. Otherwise the edge of the blade will catch on the edge of the slot in the handle.It comes with 2 blades stored in the handle, so you take the handle apart to load a blade. In so doing I found that the plastic mechanism inside looks fairly flimsy. And while the black plastic piece on the back of the handle seats fully when the blade is fully extended, it does not seat fully when the blade is retracted.So I took it apart again and tried to figure out if I had positioned the plastic parts inside badly when I installed the blade. But I could find nothing wrong. Perhaps it's designed that way.Among the nice things about this knife are the blade shape and the handle shape. The latter is ergonomically well shaped as far as I can tell, and the blade shape and extension permits sharpening without removing the blade, and even the use of the knife in chip carving. This was demonstrated for me by Mr. Sellers in two of his online videos. I think that he mentioned that he has had about three sets of blades in 10 years (something like that). He sharpens the knife every day that he uses it, using coarse, fine and extra-fine diamond "stones", and as he demonstrated that it took him perhaps 15 seconds to touch up the edge--- 5 seconds per stone.Furthermore, the little screw in the back end does not go into a tapped hole in the cast aluminum-alloy handle (aluminium to you British) but instead goes into a tapped hole in a steel insert--- a quality feature.So on the whole I like this knife. I'm using it to scribe wood that I'm cutting one way or another and of course I'm getting sharp cuts. I'm also not having trouble with the blade tracking the straight edge. But I just wish that the plastic innards were not what they are but were of more durable material and less sloppy.I paid only about $12 with shipping for mine, from Amazon, through a British seller. That other Stanley knife is the "Stanley 10-049 Pocket Knife with Rotating Blade" and replacement blades for it are sold on Amazon as the "Stanley 11-041 Utility Replacement Blade". Those blades have a shape that is different from those of the knife that I'm reviewing.