Who sells scalpel blades/handles anymore?

Amazon has good deals if you look. Check for Havels

 

Or go to directly to http://www.havels.com/surgical-blades---scalpels.html

 

www.Havels.com

 

Why not just order them straight out of the Mckenzie catalog?

 

Who sells scalpel blades/handles anymore?

I just bought some off eBay. 8.99 for a box of 100 #10 with a handle and free shipping.


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Thats why.

 

$8.95 a box of 100 on ebay. Just bought another 3 boxes. Comes out of Florida.

 

Good luck with those "$8.95 a 100" blades.

You are the same guys saying the guy down the street charges $250 for deer heads. Those blades are cheap for a reason - just like that guy's $250 deer. What will take one Havel blade to work will require 4 or 5 of the cheap ones. I guarantee you that some of my Havels that get discarded after use are still shaper than those cheapa blades you just put on your scalpel. The handles are made in Pakistan I'd bet and some fit, some are too big for the blade and some fit so loosely, they fall off when you're skinning. You get what you pay for.

 

X2 good price on 4 boxes

 

agree with goerge!

 

Yeah, I agree with George. The cheap ones are sort of like throwing money away. www.havels.com is the way to go. They often run a two for one sale on 100 ct boxes of blades. Add shipping and you only come out a few bucks ahead but its the way I go.

 

The worst deal I ever bit on was 1000 blades for $50 on eBay. It would take 4 or 5 to cape out a deer, whereas, Haval's blades will do 1 or 2 deer, depending on how much bone you hit. I also agree with George on this one. If you buy the Florida blades, at least get the heavy duty ones. They are much better than the lowest priced ones.

 

The cheap ones are junk. But what the hell do we know.

 

Re: Who sells scalpel blades/handles anymore?

I use the cheap ones lol....for what its worth I can do a couple deer with one....blades stay on just fine. For some reason when I opened this thread I knew there would be controversy...go figure, I was right! Tell you what, to the original poster, order some "cheap" ones, if they don't suit you, use them up and order expensive ones. Its a no brainer...

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Josh, you must have gotten some good cheap ones, LOL.
I worked for a guy that didn't use scalpels. He couldn't stand the idea of buying blades for me so he bought some cheap ones. Man they were terrible but if you didn't have anything to compare them to they were probably awesome.

 

LOL Justin, you can lead them to water but you can't make them drink. As I've said a hundred times here,(1) you owe it to yourself to invest in the very best you can afford. amd (2) if you can't "afford" them, then you aren't charging enough for your work. My scalpel blades are free. My customers pay for every one of them. If yours aren't, go back and read #2.

 

Re: Who sells scalpel blades/handles anymore?

My customers buy mine to George, they just don't cost as much honestly, they work for me so I don't mind. I did three Capes yesterday with one before it started getting dull....mostly because I was hitting bone. Mine came out of PA off Ebay ?? Its funny, these threads...i could talk about something completely irrelevant and someone would have to say...no no, I do it this way. Lots of good advice, twice as much bs.

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Josh, in all sincerity, I'm sure they do work for you. I nearly cut my foot off a few years back because the "sharp" i demand of my tools is obviously different from the sharpness others demand. To me, the blade is dull as soon as it doesn't cut as soon as it touches the skin. That's especially important to me around the eyes and removing the oil glands from the eyelids.