Diamond Knife Boat Style Guide
DDK stocks boat styles to fit all modern & older style ultramicrotomes and cryo accessories
 

DDK boats are typically black but can be made a color of your choice. All DDK boats use materials immune to common solvents and cryo temperatures. 

You'll need to specify boat style and blade angle when ordering a diamond knife. Click the following link for our blade angle guide.
Standard - fits all modern ultramicrotomes and features the popular wide, oval reservoir for storing and collecting sections. Both ultrathin and Histo-Knives in black or blue.
Old-Style - fits all modern ultramicrotomes and features a long narrow reservoir with vertical side walls. Preferred by some customers, especially for resistance to disturbance by breezes and vibration.
Dry-Cryo - made of stainless steel and shaped like a glass knife. Fits all modern cryo accessories and eliminates excess boat material which can interfere with section manipulation and collection.
Wet-Cryo - made of stainless steel and shaped like the Old-Style boat. Fits all modern cryo accessories and is used primarily for cryo sectioning of polymers where floating sections on alcohol and other boat fluids is desired.