So, now for how it all works. The cutting blade pops out of the knife’s slanted front, just like with any other razor knife (except with this one, the front end is the shark’s “nose”). But here’s where it gets fun. Remember how I mentioned that Rapid Tools managed to integrate a wire stripper into the design? The stripping blades are set into the front bottom of the knife, and look like perfectly scaled shark’s jaws. And you operate them with a little handle that pops out of the back, which also happens to look an awful lot like a dorsal fin.

No utility knife named after a toothy carnivore can get away with anything less than a serrated blade, so that’s exactly what you’ll find in the Shark. While it can still cut perfectly straight like a standard utility blade, the serration of the Shark’s blade lets it cut a much wider variety of materials. All in all, this is a very simple but brilliantly creative tool, and it can save you the time it would take to keep switching tools, and the eliminate the hassle of carrying around several single-function gadgets. And have I mentioned that it’s fun? Just don’t let them catch you humming the Jaws theme on the job.

Suffice it to say, when I got my new Klein-Kurve® home and laid into some heavyweight mat board, I was extremely impressed. If you’ve ever cut any very thick paper-based material with a razor knife, you’ve probably found that it’s very easy for the blade to waver mid-cut if you don’t have an absolute death grip on the knife, and that the top layer of paper can catch the blade and bunch up if the knife isn’t sharp enough. Well, neither of these was an issue with the Klein-Kurve®. Thanks to that curved shape and the grips I mentioned before, it’s much easier to get a good hold on the Klein-Kurve®, as opposed to standard, straight-bodied, smooth metal utility knives. And the blades are very sharp, and keep their edge for quite some time… I thought that maybe it was only working that well because it was brand new, but it’s still cutting great, and I haven’t even changed the blade yet.

As you can see from the photo, the Klein-Kurve® utility knife also comes with a great little bonus – a plastic holster that lets you clip the Klein-Kurve® right onto your belt.