Large Swiss Pill Cutter (Gold)

If you are unhappy with the cheap plastic pill cutters sold in drug stores, you might consider the Swiss Pill Cutter. Yes, it is expensive but when I was fed up with plastic pill cutters, I decided to try the Swiss version. It is solid metal, precision cut, finely machined and it is a good long term investment. I am pleased with mine and happy to recommend it.

This cutter is beautifully made but poorly designed. There are blades on both top and bottom so the pill will not lay flat for positioning. You must hold it with your fingers or tweezers and guess if its in the middle. The description is critical of the "cheap" plastic cutters but the ones with "V" shaped aligning walls do a much better job than this incredibly expensive device and at 1/10 the price.

I think of this item in the same light as an automobile which is not quite firing at TDC. Close is okay, but for the price I just can't endorse this product at this time. With a few modifications, it would be perfect for the 'long haul'.

I got the pill cutter today and experimented with it today on several round 20 mg Crestor, which were round with a diameter slightly over 1/4". I followed all the directions exactly. The half-cut on all my samples made the pill cut crumble in varying degrees. The second or quarter-cuts came out clean. I tried the half-cuts on my Apex Carex blade cutter and they came out perfect. I'm sure the quarter-cuts would too. So, I basically got screwed on an expensive pill cutter. I will try it on other pills but I am not sanguine about the results at all. My advice to potential purchasers: Beware! Internet products get less reliable every day.

I went through a half dozen of various makes and models of plastic cutters (all purchased from Amazon based on customer reviews) before I reached the level of frustration necessary to justify spending $60 for one of these. But so far I am mostly satisfied.Pros:1) This is the first pill cutter I've found that will consistently divide really hard pills like slow-release Alprazolm (Xanax) without crushing them into dust.2) Very easy to use.3) Permanent "blade" should last a very, very long time.Cons:1) My wife thinks I'm crazy for spending $60 on a pill cutter.2) To maintain clean cuts, you need to clean out impacted pill dust from the cutting area after every 20 or so pills. With some types of pills, simply brushing away the dust isn't sufficient; I needed to dig out the impacted dust with an unfolded paper clip.

This is the last pill cutter you will ever buy, unless you lose it. I have tried every store bought plastic piece of junk out there (you all know what I mean), and this hand crafted precision milled metal cutter is the best you will ever find. True it doesn't have the centering feature but you don't need it. Just center the pill with one hand and cut with the other, it actually takes me less time than the other plastic ones ever did.My only suggestion would be to only buy the larger gold one, it will cut the smaller pills just fine, the smaller red cutter they have available is limited to smaller pills so it is really a waste of money. I have one of these cutters at my office and one at home, totally worth the money!Do yourself a favor and buy one, you won't regret it and if you don't care for it you can return it easy enough...(but you won't)

I have been using the MULTIPLE PILL SPLITTER by Pillcut, and became dissatisfied after a few months, looking for greater precision cutting my .27 inch diameter pills into quarters. So I decided to buy this large Swiss Pill Cutter, which however is much worse; I will be returning it immediately. The problems are as follows:1. There is nothing to hold the pill centered with respect to the blades. It can be moved side-to-side, so dividing in half is simply by guesswork.2. There is nothing to hold the pill level either. The blades are milled out of solid steel and so are not recessed. Therefore the pill must balance on top of the lower blade with no support on its sides.3. The movable arm can be wiggled from side to side because of slop in the hinge. The walls of the stationary base might stop that once it is nearly closed since it fits snugly in there, but since the walls are not very high, they do not perform that function anyway.

Very hard to use