TIRED OF CONTINUALLY REPLACING CHEAP SLICERS? The USA Made Bread Pal (The Original Design Foldable Bread Slicer) makes slicing easy. Opening and closing our slicer is completely and fully automatically self locking due to our own unique spring loaded design; it's all automatic. It's quick to open and just as fast fold up with absolutely no assembly at all;BE WARY OF CLAIMS OF EASY SET UP from the imitators; Others have cheaply copied our original foldable design and imported from China. But NONE have matched our American made easy set up and self locking system or the quality of material used. No Bamboo, no splinters, no clumsy set up each use. You get what you pay for with the Bread Pal.;WE USE MAPLE, BIRCH, HARDWOOD faced materials and a Polyurethane cutting surface in the construction of our slicer.;Here's how simple it is to use: To use: Rotate the spring loaded knife guides to their open position. Insert the bread stop. Position the loaf and hold. To store: Remove the bread stop. Push both knife guides out of the retaining notch before rotating under.