My usual way of separating parts is by prying the pieces apart with my dull hobby knife. Sometimes I risk damaging parts with the sharp edge of the knife and can be uncomfortable prying the pieces apart with a very thin blade. I've also had bandai's plastic separator but that thing dulled out and warped by the end of the kit I was working on. But with this neat little tool, it makes separating a breeze. The blade part is sharp, but is not sharp enough to cut you (unless used with excessive force; be careful) and is very sturdy. It feels comfortable in my hands and makes prying pieces apart very easy. My favorite feature is that it acts as a switch blade. With a press of the button, the blade pops out and will stay out. So no worries about pushing the blade back in when using it for what it's intended for. Pressing the button will release that lock allowing you to push it back in. However, I do question the quality of the switch blade feature. Even if it fails at some point, I'd buy another because this thing is so useful.

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I've mainly used it while building to take pieces apart if i needed to readjust them and so far it's worked wonderfully! I have some old kits i plan to take apart and redo and i imagine it'll do the job just fine.

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I have been redoing some of my older kits and figured I would give this a shot. It honestly works like magic and as long as the price stays low I highly reccomend it.

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