Forged scissors are a good purchase if you are looking for scissors that will last your entire life. They are resharpenable, reparable, and contain no plastic or coatings that wears out.

These are made by Fiskars and are stainless steel but you can find some that are made by hand with other steels.

I use these for cutting paper, thread, fabric and thin leather.

#buyitforlife #tools #oc

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    I have some “stainless steel” kitchen shears that are not only all-metal, but also have the two halves come apart for cleaning. Unfortunately, the nut on the piece that forms the hinge axle is a different alloy than the rest that’s less stainless, so that was a bit of a letdown. If it were welded on instead, it would’ve been perfect.

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      Those are really nice shears. I have a affinity for all-stainless steel kitchen tools.

      If I needed new kitchen shears I’d consider those.

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        the categorisation as kitchen shears is a bit weird, but they have all sorts of scissors and shears on there.

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          The bottle opener integrated into the handle is probably why the op assumes they are kitchen shears.

          Plus your link is to “kuechenscheren” which translates from the german to “kitchen scissors”.

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    I was NOT a smart child, and i managed to damage a pair of these by cutting the cord on a plugged in device. But otherwise yeah, they last forever!

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      Never done it with Scissors, but have done is twice with linemans pliers, they blew out ~1/4"Ø hole centered on the cutting edges.

      It was a little bit too exciting. How did your childhood pants fair?

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      5 hours ago

      Wow! That’s shocking!

      :)

      Well, I’m sure you’re not the only child to ever do that.

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        Most of Fiskars scissors have a plastic-covered (orange) handle. Ones that don’t have them are very rare. And yes, when you see them there’s no way to tell whether they were made in the 1980’s or in 2020’s, because they will work the same and look the same either way.

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          These werent Fiskars, i think they were another brand listed in another comment (Gingher?) And solid metal sewing shears 😅

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    Fiskars scissors in general are some of the highest quality shit you can get for reasonable price

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    The sharpening for these is particularly easy because you only really have to follow the angles that are already there. Even as a complete amateur I was able to bring new life to an old pair of Gingher scissors

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      It really is. Since the cutting edge is so obtuse it doesn’t take a lot of work. The angle itself is close to 90°.

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    Yeah but then how does the stock of the company grow if people only need one?! Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders?!

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      You can get a permanent reusable buy it for life scissors for each room. Confuses future archaeology but screw those people.