TurboKnife X: What’s With The X?
By Benjamen Johnson
Seems like everybody’s trying to redesign the ubiquitous utility knife. Not wanting to be left out, Olympia Tools gave their TurboKnife X some features like tool-less blade-changing and ergonomic design, and they threw an X in the name to make their knife stand out from the crowd.
Olympia starts with a smooth anodized aluminum body with a comfortable-in-the-hand design and gives it a soft-touch finish. They add a quality blade-retraction mechanism you can operate single-handedly with a security button that releases and locks the blade in 10 different positions. To top it off they designed the knife so you can change the blade with just a turn of the thumb wheel.
Looks like you’ll pay $10 or more to clip the TurboKnife X to your belt, but if you want more than one, you can get ‘em bundled in sets for a discount.
TurboKnife X [Olympia Tools]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
January 13th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I am so inspired by this, I think I’ll start calling myself Dave-X, or maybe even Turbo Dave-X. And start wearing stripes to make me look taller. That ought to fix everything.
January 13th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Shopmonger-Xtreme………
haa haa haa haaa haa haa haa
January 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I had one of these for a while, I’m a carpenter so we use our knifes a lot. I wouldn’t use it to cut drywall or replace a “standard” knife, but it was nice to have clipped to my side when my pouches were somewhere else. The only drawback for the tool is the tiny star-headed screws they use to hold it together come undone. Mine fell apart when it accidentally went through the washer.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
What’s with the Turbo?
January 13th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
That knife used to be named Turboknife Riebenschneider. Then it joined The Nation of Islam.
January 13th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Malcom’s grandson? They will sell a ton of these simply because they “look fancy”.
January 13th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
OOOOOOOOOOOH there soooooooooooooo cute.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I hate stuff called extreme or even worse xtream. yuck.
these knifes are good though. I got one for $7 and it was worth it.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Turbo Bob TDG-X…. while very extreme sounding, I gotta keep it old school spiderman… “Bob, your friendly neighbourhood drywall guy”
as far as the blade goes, meh, I’ve broken more blades like this then I care to admit buying.
If you’re looking for a comfortable, fixed blade utility knife, this Irwin makes love to your hand.
http://www.irwin.com/irwin/consumer/jhtml/detail.jhtml?prodId=IrwinProd100413
beyond that, for all my real work I use an Olfa H1… 4 of them infact.
Not to hijack this thread, but I’m curious if any other toolmongers have checked out any Bahco products, and what they think. They’re kinda new to me, and price aside, they are seriously nice tools.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I wonder what happened to TurboKnifes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX?
March 10th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I’d like to have one of these. Problem is, they are nowhere to be found! Not one single store in my area sells them. The only place I’ve seen them is online and the shipping is more than the knife. This looks to be a good utility knife. The makers need to promote them better to the stores.