<p>My son asked for a pair of really good scissors for christmas. I have a Cutco pair that I bought years ago when friends of my kids were selling them. I looked online and they cost $69!!! I don’t remember them being that much.</p>
<p>Can anybody recommend another really good pair of scissors?</p>
<p>It really depends what you want to use them for. My best gardening scissors were only $25; my dog grooming curved Japanese scissors cost $180 (don’t let anyone tell you poodles are a low-maintenance dog); my sewing scissors cost about $40; my Fiskars all-around paper cutting scissors were $10 at Costco.</p>
<p>And yes, I <em>would</em> be furious if anyone used the dog grooming scissors to cut anything but dog or people hair.</p>
<p>^^My sister who has a similarly expensive pair of scissors for her dog grooming services would not let anyone cut people hair with them!</p>
<p>What would be the intended use for the scissors, 3bm103?</p>
<p>He says he wants scissors “that will cut anything”. Not for dog grooming, not for people grooming. Cutting pennies?</p>
<p>Buy him a hacksaw blade, and tell him it’s a newfangled ‘one-arm’ scissors design 
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<p>How’s this much $$$ for a pair of scissors :eek: :eek: :eek:</p>
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<p>Egads… if I knew the autopsy saw was THAT expensive I never would have used it for grout removal. 
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<p>I have Henckels for my kitchen ( don’t anyone touch then for paper or school projects )
And then I have some crappy, three for one Ikea specials…which usually get lost.</p>
<p>What IS he going to cut ???</p>
<p>By the way, my best friend’s father who passed away a few years back told me to never give or receive knives or other blades as a gift…an old Scottish superstition. He told me that you will be stabbed in the back by the bearer. At the time, it seemed humorous, but the only knives I ever rec’d as a gift, turned out to be a backstabber !!
Hope your son likes you :)</p>
<p>I have a great scissor that I got years ago. I think it was a german steel one and at that time it cost 25-30 dollars. It has no name on it so, maybe it is not a name brand. The blades separate for cleaning, and they have a notch in them that you can cut turkey bones with. I never use them to cut paper or anything other than in the kitchen.</p>
<p>I have used many other scissors for sewing over the years, and to cut fabric, sharp is the key. I broke a lot of them on pins or by dropping, so I don’t get expensive ones for that.</p>
<p>Liked the one about the autopsy saw.</p>
<p>“And yes, I <em>would</em> be furious if anyone used the dog grooming scissors to cut anything but dog or people hair.”</p>
<p>Gee, I dunno if I can afford that kind of money for a single-purpose tool. Can they be used to strip wire too?</p>
<p>violadad, post of the day! As someone who’s done some regrouting projects (one more coming up soon), I agree that an autopsy saw would be a great tool for that task.</p>
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<p>A Russian seller in Saint Petersburg told me the same thing, the souvenir knife I intended to buy as a gift would mean bad luck.</p>
<p>In HI, they often tape a coin to the knife so as not to “cut off” the friendship. They also include in any wallet or purse they give (at least a coin or small bill), I guess so it will always have at least some money?</p>
<p>Kitchen scissors that come apart for cleaning are <em>wonderful</em> ! I have Wusthof, but others make them. Click them apart, no place for the germs to hide. I use them every day and would give up many other kitchen helpers before my scissors.
As a leftie, I am picky about my sewing scissors since they are harder to find. The junky ones in the desk drawer - go ahead and cut wire with, I don’t care…
To some extent, how nice they are and how nice they stay depends on what you cut with them. Maybe give him a set of 2 or 3. Craft stores (not ultracheap ones) might be a good place to look for a range of prices and quality.</p>
<p>sorry to tell you, but I swear by the Cutco ones… am thinking about asking for a second pair so I have one on each floor.</p>
<p>Get him a Fiskars multipack of scissors from Costco. Safer than anything from Cutco…those knives slice me on a weekly basis, I imagine if I had their scissors I’d have to run to urgent care for stitches!</p>
<p>I have a pair of Fiskars kitchen shears that will literally cut through a penny. They also cut paper, strip wires, work well in the garden, and can cut through chicken bones. $15 at Amazon</p>
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<p>And for those of you who are wondering why I spent a bleeping fortune on dog grooming scissors: I have a damaged nerve in my hand and those were the first grooming scissors I encountered that didn’t hurt it. Since grooming a poodle runs $50 every six weeks, and I have two poodles, switching to grooming them myself saved me the money for the shears very quickly.</p>
<p>Thanks. That’s very helpful.</p>
<p>I love my sapling, but he used my rose cutting shears to cut his guitar strings!</p>
<p>You can also get Fiskars fromTarget.</p>
<p>It’s dumb, but I like those scissors from Target that look like a cardinal bird, in the kitchen department.</p>