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Snip scissors for trimming thread2/14/2024 ![]() My personal choice depends on a few factors, and these are the most important ones: I like to try new tools and also like to have different tools for different uses, and often find myself changing depending on what I tie. I probably haven't bought my last pair of scissors. The Tiemcos are still among my favorites, and I have bought a new pair to supplement the old, but I also have scissors from other manufacturers such as Bennechi, as well as some odder ones like my Squizzers and my Wiss snips and some no-brand models. Since I acquired the Tiemco scissors I have bought many more, and my current scissor collection contains several different makes and models, and each has a purpose and a special use. I still have and use this first pair in spite of having worn them very well for more than 25 years. They were suitably loose to be comfortable.They cut well all along the full length of the blade.The Tiemco had several great advantages over what I had used before: They might have been expensive, but they certainly did the trick for me. I finally went to my local flyshop and bled what I felt was a small fortune for a pair of Tiemco fly tying scissors. I experimented with what the household could muster: hair cutting scissors and Fiskars sewing scissors, but even though they could cut, they were too big for my taste. In spite of being pretty sharp, they didn't cut well in the full length of the blades, and even had a tendency to slip on thick material, simply pressing it out when I closed the blades, while thin materials sometimes turned sideways, uncut in between the blades. They were on the large side, but were sharp and cut well, and seemed to do the job OK.īut they also met their limit, especially when I needed to cut fine thread, loose materials and not least when trimming hair, where they could not do anything right. In the beginning found them more than adequate. I went to the local pharmacy and bought a brand new pair of small nurse's scissors. I soon learned the hard way that I needed something else. They were blunt and worn from cutting all sorts of things, and were also loose in the joint and not able to close well.
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