Abstract: An arthroscopy portal maker which facilitates substantially precise insertion and location of each of the surgical tools necessary to make a portal, within the area where further arthroscopic surgical procedures are to be performed. The device comprises a canulated shaft which has a cutting end and a gripping portion proximate the end opposite the cutting end. The internal channel of the canulated shaft facilitates slidable cooperation with a puncturing tool, and then a blunt wire rod, which is slidably interchanged with the puncturing tool. After the portal is made, the canulated shaft having a cutting end, is slidably removed over the blunt wire rod, and a conventional canula is then slidably inserted thereover, through the portal and to the location previously occupied by the canulated shaft having a cutting end.