Abstract: Applicant's cable stripper for stripping the sheath of a cable while protecting the underlying cable wire and cable wire sheaths, includes a handle configured to be normal to a cable during with the user's hand-arm line substantially parallel to the axis of the cable, a hook with a shoe having rounded edges and a tapered end, and a blade located on said hook such that said blade is substantially parallel to said handle and substantially normal to said cable axis. In one embodiment, blade is finger safe to the adult male finger. In one embodiment, cable stripper includes a container fillable with lubricant attached to said cable stripper, and an internal channel from said hook through said blade to said shoe such that said internal channel slopes downward toward one end of said shoe dispensing said container's lubricant down said channel and at one end of said shoe. In one embodiment, lubricant dispenses from container through an exterior tube that terminates at one end of said shoe.