ItsAllOver
Devil's Advocate
I was in the fancy-shmancy cooking store today when I glanced at these
Messermeister Herb Snippers (commercial website, looks legit but I can't say for sure)
It was love at first sight with these snippers of the well-known Messermeister quality, at an uncommonly low cost.
There's no spring, just the flexible plastic in the joint. (And I bet you could take a Dremel or something to one or more of those plastic "leaf springs" to customize the squeeze pressure) It's got similar 'squeezing resistance' to the Fiskars Softouch, but the way you hold them makes it feel a bit easier. I like how your hand is so close to the tips of the blades for fine work like snipping the stem of little sugar leaves inside of buds (I am a perfectionist trimmer, until I get to that 1 lb. mark anyway...) A shaky guy like me (doc says benign tremors...) has a hard time doing small movements of the tip of the scissors when my hand is back at the grips like normal, longer scissors. But with these, you slip your ring finger through that hole, and rest your thumb on the impression near the blades, making for easy and comfortable snipping! I just spun them around the back of my hand each time I wanted to buck the fan leaves off of major branches, then spun them back around for snipping off buds and for sugar-leaf trimming; I think these could be very efficient for getting a lot of weight done in short order... I should know that for sure soon. They are easily disassembled for cleaning, too.
A negative aspect that I can think of is the way the blades separate near the base (tip section makes perfect contact, though) when you make snips. It's like the tips are angled in to one another, making the base separate by maybe 1/32" when brought together, which is still pretty tiny. Partially because of this, they are not suitable for cutting stems any thicker than maybe 1/8". It will work, but not well, and maybe not for long. Chopping branches is not the job of these scissors, but they clean up and separate those beautiful buds very well!
For their quality of construction, comfortable performance, and with a price-tag of $5, I give these scissors an unquestionable
I wish you all sore hand-muscles, because you know it's a good thing.
Peace
Messermeister Herb Snippers (commercial website, looks legit but I can't say for sure)
It was love at first sight with these snippers of the well-known Messermeister quality, at an uncommonly low cost.
There's no spring, just the flexible plastic in the joint. (And I bet you could take a Dremel or something to one or more of those plastic "leaf springs" to customize the squeeze pressure) It's got similar 'squeezing resistance' to the Fiskars Softouch, but the way you hold them makes it feel a bit easier. I like how your hand is so close to the tips of the blades for fine work like snipping the stem of little sugar leaves inside of buds (I am a perfectionist trimmer, until I get to that 1 lb. mark anyway...) A shaky guy like me (doc says benign tremors...) has a hard time doing small movements of the tip of the scissors when my hand is back at the grips like normal, longer scissors. But with these, you slip your ring finger through that hole, and rest your thumb on the impression near the blades, making for easy and comfortable snipping! I just spun them around the back of my hand each time I wanted to buck the fan leaves off of major branches, then spun them back around for snipping off buds and for sugar-leaf trimming; I think these could be very efficient for getting a lot of weight done in short order... I should know that for sure soon. They are easily disassembled for cleaning, too.
A negative aspect that I can think of is the way the blades separate near the base (tip section makes perfect contact, though) when you make snips. It's like the tips are angled in to one another, making the base separate by maybe 1/32" when brought together, which is still pretty tiny. Partially because of this, they are not suitable for cutting stems any thicker than maybe 1/8". It will work, but not well, and maybe not for long. Chopping branches is not the job of these scissors, but they clean up and separate those beautiful buds very well!
For their quality of construction, comfortable performance, and with a price-tag of $5, I give these scissors an unquestionable
I wish you all sore hand-muscles, because you know it's a good thing.
Peace