Scissors

[mtnbkr]

After watching my wife struggle with our cheap scissors to cut some cloth (and having experience the problem with other materials myself), I finally broke down and bought some good scissors online.  I got a pair of 8" Gingher scissors for $16 shipped off ebay.  Talk about a night and day difference!  Do yourself a favor, if you don't have a good pair of scissors, go buy a pair.  I'm going to buy another pair for the upstairs office.  

http://www.gingher.com/

Ours look just like the pair on the front page.

Chris

[The Rabbi]

I have gotten fed up with the quality of scissors out there.  When I was a kid (1960s) scissors were substantial things.  Today they are plastic and worthless.  I plan on getting a good pair sometime soon.

[mtnbkr]

The pair I bought feel very similar to the ones at my grandparents' homes.  In other words, they're substantial and work well.  There's not a bit of plastic in these (not counting the plastic sheath, a nice addition).

This is what I bought: http://cgi.ebay.com/Gingher-8-Knife-Edge-Dressmaker-Shears-FREE-SHIPPING_W0QQitemZ300030931376QQihZ020QQcategoryZ28171QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

But I paid that price PLUS shipping.  

Chris

[charby]

My wife cuts hair you don't want to know what shears cost. I can buy a nice snub nose .38 for what a pair of shears cost.

-C

[280plus]

Yea, but you can't cut hair nearly as fast with a .38, too many reloads would be necessary and that would slow you down.

Yea, I should get a decent pair of scissors myself. I have these old monsters that have seen better days.

[Third_Rail]

No kidding about shears for hairdressers! My wife is a hairdresser, and I could've bought a decent used car for what the shears cost...

[charby]

Yea, but you can't cut hair nearly as fast with a .38, too many reloads would be necessary and that would slow you down.

Upgrade to a .357 and singe the hair off

[garrettwc]

I have gotten fed up with the quality of scissors out there.  When I was a kid (1960s) scissors were substantial things.  Today they are plastic and worthless.  I plan on getting a good pair sometime soon.

+1. When I was a kid my mother had a pair of steel scissors that were built like a tank. When they got dull dad would take them down to the work bench and "dress" the edges a little and they'd be good as new. I'm 43 now. Those scissors are still in mom's kitchen drawer and they work just fine after all these years.

Try that with a pair of those plastic scissors with the metal insterts they sell in the stores now.

[Brian Williams]

My wife is a quilter and she has 2 pair of gingher scissors that only cut fabric.  They are the best.
My hair cutting shears are a pair of used barbers shears.