The knives we use for cutting sheet vinyl

[Gary W]

I use a Shark for cut ins and just an Orcon with hook blades to make my cuts(thats just to save blades from the concrete. I used to use a Ward and I still love them but don't love the price of blades and how hard they are to find.

[Steve Olson]

You can use a standard utility blade in a Ward knife.

[hookknife]

I use two Delphins, one with a straight blade, one with a hook blade. Before that I used the stanley #199s if I remember correctly??

[TFP Admin]

Gary, you replied to an old topic, so I moved your post and its replies to a whole new topic.

Thanks,

Jim

[BrianM]

hookknife said I use two Delphins, one with a straight blade, one with a hook blade. Before that I used the stanley #199s if I remember correctly??

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I'm going to start trying other knives besides Stanley's because those little nubs that hold the blade tight are not lasting long enough.

I always loved the angle knives made by Armstrong, Dexter and Hyde but they have the same issue. By the time I get comfortable with one of those knives they're falling apart either at the blade holder or on the backside where I can't break the habit of using the solid end of the knife for rubbing down glue down carpet or carpet tile.

[rusty baker]

I used Hyde knives for years, but they don't seem to be the same quality, they won't hold an edge long enough now and they don't work for IVC type vinyls. I just use a standard utility/pad knife now.

[Sean Moore]

I'm using a small, thin Irwin brand handle to hold hook blades, I had to modify it slightly with a dremel to get it to hold the Roberts blades.

I have a Stanley FatMax from about 10 years ago that is about to give up the ghost for my Util blades.

I'll probably buy a blue orcon to replace the FatMax because of that cold-rolled replaceable pin that holds the blades in. If I like it well enough I might get another for the hook blades but it's really nice to tell the difference by feel.

[rusty baker]

Probably would use something different if I patterned, but I can drop in and cut vinyl down, anywhere and it's sure quicker than making a pattern.

[Sean Moore]

rusty baker said Probably would use something different if I patterned, but I can drop in and cut vinyl down, anywhere and it's sure quicker than making a pattern.

Do I hear a race brewing?

[Darol Wester]

rusty baker said Probably would use something different if I patterned, but I can drop in and cut vinyl down, anywhere and it's sure quicker than making a pattern.

Ditto that Rusty. I've watched people pattern (with all due respect) and by the time many of them had the pattern done, I was close to being finished with installing the vinyl. I did pattern many years ago when doing hard goods, but seldom run across it any more.

I have always used a utility knife, unless I'm under a toe kick or similar, then I use a hook.

[Sean Moore]

Darol Wester said and by the time many of them had the pattern done, I was close to being finished with installing the vinyl

How do you get the patch to dry so quickly?!

[rusty baker]

Sean Moore said How do you get the patch to dry so quickly?!

What patch? I only install vinyl on perfect floors.

[hookknife]

"the knives we use" are only as good as the hands holding them for me they work just as good making patterns as they do for freehand vinyl

[Jon Scanlan]

Snap off blades for everything, I just do hard floorings, including marking MDF underlayment. I cut it twice from the pattern but do the final cut with a heavy duty Stanley blade as the snap off blades keep on snapping as I cut the underlayment on the 45. I also use a hook blade for trimming slithers off these domestic vinyls. Also a hook blade for commercial vinyls as they follow my cut marks

[Darol Wester]

Sean Moore said How do you get the patch to dry so quickly?!

So many vinyl jobs these days are the ones that you can just perimeter glue. With those, I just sand the U/L joints smooth and don't use any patch. That is, if it's me that installs the U/L.