3M Hand-Masker M3000 Tool Painter's Tape and Masking Film Dispenser Kit, 3M Hand Masker Protects Surfaces from Paint Splatters, Includes 12-Inch Blade, Painter's Tape and Masking Film, 1 Kit

It's overpriced, but you need it. I'm paiting my house by myself and this thing made things so much easier. Took a little time to get the technique right to rip straight edges. Will use again. The plastic that comes with is amazing.

Very useful and effective for masking and protecting wooden floor from drips while painting. I am not a professional painter or a handyman but chose to paint several rooms and baseboards myself, spread over three weeks, for budgetary reasons. I bought the unit because I had resolved to reduce the prep tedium by spending money on tools to save time. I hope I don't have to buy another such unit ever again, but I feel I have got my money's worth from it and am very glad to recommend it to other DIY painters like me. Once you get used to it, it will improve your productivity, reduce cleanup time and effort, and give you crisp painting results.Read, Watch and Learn by doing. This is not a tool for the casual DIY. Unless you are naturally very handy, it takes a lot of patience and practice to learn how to use it without hurting yourself. The learning curve is steep, I spent 1/2 a day reading many reviews on Amazon.com and watching several YouTube "How To" videos to learn how to setup and use the hand masker. I got more comfortable with using it within a couple of days and very confident with it within the first week.Snapping the blade in and out to adjust to different masking tape widths is especially hard with a brand new until since the arm holding the blade fits very tightly on the buttons from which it extends. The blade is sharp and merciless. I was wearing two layers of gloves, thin inside and thick leather outside to protect my hands, to twist and snap the arm off.The protective liner on the blade was a hinderance and prevented clean tears. After a couple of days of frustration, I removed it and have been able to use the unit with the dangerous blade exposed. This is not recommended practice but I saw other painters had done it and lived to tell their tale!Find safe storage. Respect that blade, you can seriously hurt yourself! Disassemble the blade and keep the entire until enclosed in a box out of reach of children or even curious adults (especially yourself) after you are done.

Easy to use. Makes prep work a breeze. Love this product!

My husband likes to suffer. He always does things the hard way. He had a taper a long time ago and lost it. Now that we're renovating and are old, he was trying to take walls but hand. It was killing me watching him do it because I don't like to see him work like that, but, also because I don't have that kind of time anymore. 🙄 I asked him to order this and he said no, so I did while he was sleeping. I took it to the house we're working on today and he said, send this back. I said no! So he used it. He was hollering OMG this thing is great! 🙄 Thank you, Jesus, 3M, and Amazon.

masker with straight cut does keep paper or film in place, does a good job of adhering tape to product. plastic guard does make getting film to cutting blade somewhat difficult and blade does not easily covert to cutting paper which for the price of blades getting two separate blades is somewhat expensive and impractical unless your willing to have two separate units.

Buen producto lo uso continuamente

A great product and so easy to use.

Had two of these. First one broke within days of receipt. Second one routinely has tape skewing so that the tape will spool off the plastic really messing up the plastic and making it unusable. Can't recommend, especially given the cost.