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Do you have a favorite pair of scissors/shears?

Old 08-31-2009, 02:00 PM
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Sorry I spelled it wrong. It's Famore

http://famorecutlery.com/quilting.aspx I've seen their booth at every big quilt show. I buy the comfort blue handle ones. At Paducah their booth was always busy and I heard the vendor say we are down to our last box of blue handle scissors. Quilters were buying them faster than they could open the boxes. I was up front and was able to get a pair. I'm glad I did. They are great. They were $18.
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:14 PM
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Hello from another lefty. I LOVE my Ginger lightweight sissors, I have 4 pairs everywhere I might sew. I also have my eye on the Ginger rotary cutter, maybe I'll just have to treat myself to a nice Present just because. :D
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:18 PM
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Scissor Queen!! You mustn't have any kids at home right now!!
When my kids were little, my scissors always had legs. I had a pair of Wiss I think the name is, that they did not touch or they were in real BIG trouble. Now the kids are out on their own, and I have a Fiskars I use a lot. I wrote on the orange handle - fabric only - no paper - tied a red ribbon to - so my husband wouldn't use it! I did ask him to drop it all at the hardware store last weekend to get it sharpened - I hit a pin!! - but I think he was too embarassed by the looks of the scissors!
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:22 PM
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I have a pair of Ginghers and love them. It's like driving a Cadillac of scissors.
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:20 AM
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I have a friend who swears by "Kai" brand scissors. They have a bery finely serated blade and never need sharpening. She bought them as a packaged deal of 3 sizes at a Quilt Show. That is what I am going to look for at the San Diego Quit Show on the 17th. I don't have good luck with scissors. Have fat thumbs and the scissor hole for the thumb gets hung up on my thumb knuckle. Therefore I only use scissors when I have to.

Do any of you find that cutting batting dulls your scissor fast? Seems that no matter what brand of batting I use, my scissors dull on it.
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:21 AM
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I, too, have a pair of chrome Ginghers that were a gift about 30 years ago, and I feel the same way about them. That was the one pair of scissors that I finally convinced my children they would only touch them under penalty of death (LOL) -- and somehow that worked.

I like the Fiskars "softtouch", the ones that have straight handles rather than holes. They are so much easier on these old hands of mine. I have tendonitis in my thumb, and it really hurts if I use the regular scissors for very long.

Just my two cents worth.
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:33 AM
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Another lefty here and self proclaimed scissor freak! I love the titanium blade Westcott scissors as well as my little pair of Singer scissors that are sharp pointed with stainless steel blades. Those are my favorites!
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by jbud2
Scissor Queen!! You mustn't have any kids at home right now!!
When my kids were little, my scissors always had legs. I had a pair of Wiss I think the name is, that they did not touch or they were in real BIG trouble. Now the kids are out on their own, and I have a Fiskars I use a lot. I wrote on the orange handle - fabric only - no paper - tied a red ribbon to - so my husband wouldn't use it! I did ask him to drop it all at the hardware store last weekend to get it sharpened - I hit a pin!! - but I think he was too embarassed by the looks of the scissors!
Even when I had kids at home they knew better than to touch mother's scissors. Hammers and screwdrivers on the other hand disappeared very regularly.

My hubby will enter the sewing room and announce "I need this cut" and hand it to me. He wouldn't even dream of picking up one of my pairs of scissors. He has his own pairs of paper cutting and package opening scissors. There are scissors of one kind or another in every room of this house.
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:58 AM
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I have read that cutting paper will dull scissors is not true anymore. ? because paper has different content now and scissor blades are stronger and hold an edge much longer. I don't have a paper scissor or fabric scissor, I just pick up whatever one is closest and cut. As my DH said( when he used my scissors to cut a tarp because they cut fast and smooth), Hon, it's only a pair of scissors, buy new ones when you want to.
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Old 09-03-2009, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I have read that cutting paper will dull scissors is not true anymore. ? because paper has different content now and scissor blades are stronger and hold an edge much longer. I don't have a paper scissor or fabric scissor, I just pick up whatever one is closest and cut. As my DH said( when he used my scissors to cut a tarp because they cut fast and smooth), Hon, it's only a pair of scissors, buy new ones when you want to.
The pair of scissors we have that are labeled paper won't cut anything else. The scissors we use for general utility work are those carbon steel Chinese scissors. Those things will make quick work of practiacally any packaging. We even have a pair of those scissors that will cut pennies in half. They aren't much good for anything else but hey, if I need a penny cut in half I have the scissors to do it with. LOL
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