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If you’re looking for a quality Scissors, there is a Finnish company called Fiskars[1] that makes amazing high quality scissors (and shovels) that amazon.com ca
by rixrax 8y ago
If you’re looking for a quality Scissors, there is a Finnish company called Fiskars[1] that makes amazing high quality scissors (and shovels) that amazon.com carries.
Disclosure: not affiliated. Just wanted to give them a shoutout since very few people I ran into have ever heard of them.
[1] http://www.fiskars.com/ http://www.fiskars.com/
- qop 8y agoDo you have a recommendation for American-made scissors?
- briandear 8y agoKlein Tools. Very high quality stuff.
- qop 8y agoThanks! I'm one of those old farts who uses zip ties to organize cables around the house, I think those Klein scissors will stand up to my abuse quite nicely!
- fermienrico 8y agoKlein tools are borderline pornographic. I own their linesmen pliers and scissors. I also use their canvas zip bags as a man purse. Ridiculously amazing in every aspect.
- viksit 8y agoWow. I didn’t realize they were Finnish. I’ve grown up with so many of these in India, I used to think they were actually Indian! TIL.
- comradesmith 8y agoI'm in New Zealand here, I used to think they were from here too
- shripadk 8y agoBata is not Indian either. It's a Swiss company. I wonder how many know that in India.
- tpm 8y agoBata is originally a Czech company (Baťa), their owners were forced to emigrate and lost everything they owned in the Czechoslovakia after the communists came to power. The family of the owners was famous even during communism here, because while they were industrialists, certainly not the heartless kind. They built universities and whole towns so their employees could live in comfort. Now I read there are towns named after them in other areas in the world, so they took the practice to the global stage. Interesting.
- shripadk 8y agoThat's great to know! Thanks a lot for the information! > Now I read there are towns named after them in other areas in the world, so they took the practice to the global stage. Interesting. Yep! We have one in India as well called Batanagar (City of Bata): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batanagar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batanagar
- thelastidiot 8y agoI wonder if someone in China was thinking the same? Because the reality is now it is Chinese.
- CptFribble 8y agoI'm surprised you don't meet many people who have heard of fiskars - I grew up in the Northeast USA, and there's near-universal agreement in my social circle that Fiskars makes the best quality scissors on the market, to the extent that we all share memories of fighting over who got to use the fiskars during craft time in elementary school. Weird!
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoI wouldn't consider it universal. They farm out much of their production to China and the quality suffers. Heritage (now owned by Klein tool) is a domestic US manufacturer of forged scissors in a variety of styles available at competitive prices. They eclipse the typical ground scissors that permeate the retail market.
- cm2012 8y agoGrew up NE US also, never heard of them
- hinkley 8y agoIf you sew or garden it’s hard not to bump into them.
- smrq 8y agoI grew up in the Midwest and it's the only scissors brand I can name from memory. Maybe it's a thing for US Millennials.
- lardo 8y agoIf you use scissors professionally or just like nice things I'd recommend Kai. Fiskars are what your aunt buys from the fabric store.
- thelastidiot 8y agoYour aunt doesn't know better then. As some others have pointed out, it's now Chinese made and the Q&A on all products out of mainland China is just a gamble.
- fermienrico 8y agoIf you want a really good one, Forged steel scissors, the kind that tailors use for their whole life; look no further than: ~ $20 (I bought them back in 2000's when they were $50) Gingher http://gingher.com/ http://gingher.com/ ~$150 William Whiteley http://www.whiteley.co.uk/ http://www.whiteley.co.uk/
- wahern 8y agoI bought Gingher 5" craft scissors in 2013 to keep at the office and liked them so much I bought another pair in 2015 for the house. The quality seems top-notch. I use them to cut everything--sometimes just because I can--and they're still as sharp and perfectly aligned as the first day.[1] Like any geek I had spent an absurd amount of time researching scissors. Even by 2013 Fiskars had already seemed to be moving manufacturing off-shore to China. Not that there aren't top-notch products coming out of China, but as a consumer it's a gamble. Fiskars has a quite large product line so maybe they still make some stuff in Europe or the U.S., but that didn't seem to be the case for the stuff I had found on Amazon. [1] That's an exaggeration, of course. (The "everything" part; they really are still as sharp and aligned.) I try to use our crappy kitchen sheers for anything that might require extensive cleaning (e.g. cutting meat packaging) because I suspect the Gingher are high carbon steel and the edges would likely rust if I kept washing them. (I use alcohol wipes when necessary, like to remove packaging adhesive.) And I use a pair of aviation snips for really tough jobs, partly because of the better lever action and partly to postpone the day I need to actually sharpen the Ginghers. The Ginghers could probably take much more abuse then I give them, but I can't say for sure.
- wahern 8y agoHuh. It seems Gingher has been a subsidiary of Fiskars since 2005. So Fiskars does indeed still make great scissors! Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=20609487 https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...
- rurban 8y agoI don't really like all this China bashing. Lots of companies are moving their production to China not because it is cheaper to produce there, but because the quality is much better. Eg. just 2 weeks ago a favorite kanoe designer of mine announced to move his production from the US to China. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157428991509128&id=510619127 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015742899150912...
- briandear 8y agoFiskars seem to be everywhere I’ve been. They’re kind of mass market these days and routine quality. Not bad, but not anything particularly outstanding.
- EvanAnderson 8y agoI bought a Fiskars hand axe, in part, because I liked the idea of having an axe that was the same brand as the dainty little shears we have in our "craft box". (It's also a nice hand axe, too!)
- i2amsam 8y agoThey also make a wonderful push lawnmower.
- avree 8y agoWeird that people haven't heard of them, they were super common here on the West Coast USA when I was in school.
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- jessaustin 8y agoThese are also fine scissors: https://www.harborfreight.com/7-inch-multipurpose-stainless-steel-scissors-97042.html https://www.harborfreight.com/7-inch-multipurpose-stainless-... If you live in USA you are probably close to a Harbor Freight, so you could have them today.
- pravda 8y agoHF gives these away for free sometimes: https://www.harborfreight.com/multipurpose-scissors-47877.html https://www.harborfreight.com/multipurpose-scissors-47877.ht... I have many pairs -- they work fine for most ordinary tasks.
- culot 8y agoI'm a big fan of Kai scissors. Their shears are a joy to use -- super sharp, chomps through fabric like butter, with soft plastic handles. I found them a step up from my Gingher shears, definitely easier on the hands. They also make the best damn bobby pins, pins that literally do not deform or break, that seem like they could last a lifetime. I think they make knifes under the Kershaw brand. I've had one I really like, but I don't know much about knives.