Electrician’s Scissors

Tool: C. K Tools 492001 Electrician's Scissors, 10-Inch OAL
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Guest: Dominic Morrow
Dominic co-founded the nottingham hackspace (not hackerspace) in 2010, now one of the worlds largest with over 600 members.
He co-produced Mini Maker Faires in the United Kingdom in DARBY, Bristol and at the Elephant & Castle in London, has been part of the Maker Faire crew in Bay Area and NY as an ‘embedded producer’.
Dominic is a freelance maker, writer and podcaster living and working in Nottingham in the UK working especially in the field of home use CO2 laser cutting through his company Smoke & Mirrors smokeandmirrors.store
Bricolage.run his ongoing blog for all things related to democratisation of tools, workspace and knowledge (making it truly easy for anyone to access rapid prototyping, spaces to iterate and collaborate and express their ideas safely).
Bricolage Pod is his podcast (on iTunes and everywhere else podcasts are sold).
As well as my laser cutter forum community.andmirrors.co.uk/
Dominic is also behind #makevember, @ChickenGrylls, and @toolotheday on Twitter.
Transcript:
OK. So they're are a pair of scissors. They don't look like much, I know. These were about 15 pounds about 20-22 dollars something like that depending on when you when you take your your pricing and they're made by a company called Carl Kammerling, which is a German company which moved to Wales after World War 2. And they make specialized equipment for electricians and they're always in these distinct yellow and red colors which you see a lot on electricians equipment of course. A friend of mine had a pair of them and I very much like the feel of them and I took a picture of his pair when I was doing the Tool of the Day Twitter feed with it with a new tool every day. But I thought oh what a luxury to have a pair of scissors which costs you no more than 20 dollars. But I couldn't resist getting myself a set. So I did and I've had a lot more than 20 dollars of value out of them. They're just as great for cutting wires and stripping wires and cutting thick wires and cutting away cable ties and just slipping and cutting away at anything and this size is I just really like the stubby size of them but the weight in the hands and the big chunky the big chunky electrician's grips I know if I cut something live with these I'd probably be all right. I'm not going to try and do that. But yeah it's it's one of only very very few small hand tools that I have that that cost a really reasonable amount of you know that they've been fairly expensive but have again proven that spending good money on good tools is is well is well worth it. And I don't know if you can see but they have a little little notch here I can bring that right up to my camera and obviously that's where you can get a thicker piece of cable and use it for taking the shielding off a piece of shielded cable. There's also a star or a hex head on one side. On the one side and then a big very likely metric nuts on the other side they actually come with their own sort of webbing pouch that I seem to have mislaid because obviously if every tool comes off its own webbing pouch unless you're willing to wear a utility belt like Batman you end up you know sort of putting them aside somewhere and not having it but these stay in my tool box and go travel with me wherever I go and do any work that requires tools.
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Special thanks to Brian Panther Kurtz, Michael Rodriguez, Benjamin Bean, Bill Schuller, Matthew Humphrey, Gareth Branwyn, Ray Perkins, Martin, and Saud.

[@CullyLarson]

I love this channel, Donald. Always super interesting/useful tools I never would have found another way. Thanks for doing it!

[@TimoNoko]

Ingco electricians scissors have one cutting edge serrated. Seems to help a lot on flexible but tough materials like silicone rubber.

[@homegamerengineer3747]

I have been looking at maybe getting a pair for a while... i guess i am sold.

[@rayc1503]

I can honestly say I've only ever used my vde scissors on a few occasions. Mainly just to cut cables ties. Invaluable when they're needed I guess.

[@monoped8437]

after 40 years, i can say this, every one i know that uses 'snips', palms the thumb part so as not to squash their finger. and that is still no guarantee.

[@jeahmaeramirez5382]

Thanks
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[@namie_282]

Thanks for the video
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[@jcb8014]

you sold it to me, i'm buying some

[@manilynostria2467]

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[@antoniogianola7114]

these scisssors is manufacture in taiwan by Nusharp