CanDo wrote on Jun 11
th, 2007 at 9:50pm:
Those blades are designed to be extremely sharp for cutting soft things. It is certainly an excellent blade, but will not suit your needs. Even working on soft material, they are meant to be used indefinitely or resharpened. Surgeons are known to change blades such as this mid-insicion because they can go dull so quickly. If you like this style though, (because in and of itself, it is great for some carving if you have enough of them) go to a hardware or hobby store and buy an "X-acto knife" set. They're very similar, will have a nice handle, and plenty of extra blades.
hmmm, for some reason in the dissection they had me scraping a fish's skull apart
So I guess that the people with the dissection didn't know what they were for, or didn't expect me to use the blade again; but they only gave me two! (something's fishy there
[sorry]).
Thanks to everyone else who contributed, I'm learning a lot here