What do you use your scissors on?

[Willem85]

Another noob question from myself.
I see a lot of modding to add scissors, or EDCing one SAK over the other because it has scissors, there is even a merit badge for having an Alox with scissors. I don't use them at all really. They're always loosening. What am I missing? How do you use them? How often? Why do you need them?

[dks]

to trim nails, hair, cut paper, tags, labels etc.

In today's society, scissors tend to me more needed than e.g. a screwdriver, can openner, saw, in most urban environments.

the SAK scissors are a good alternative to carrying proper scissors

[styx]

Mostly for trimming my beard.

The more serious part of it is that people don't freak out if you cut something with scissors as opposed to a knife, no matter how big it is. In around a month and a half of carrying a Classic the response is "Oh cool, can I see?" when I use the scissors. When any knife, even on that same Classic, is involved the response goes more towards insinuating my mental instability and carrying a weapon

[BADSAK]

to trim nails, hair, cut paper, tags, labels etc.

+1

[Willem85]

How do you keep them from loosening? I don't have the mini screwdriver to tighten them. It gets annoying. So I don't use 'm much.

[Etherealicer]

How do you keep them from loosening? I don't have the mini screwdriver to tighten them. It gets annoying. So I don't use 'm much.

What exactly is loosening? The screw at the pivot? If so, newer models don't use screws anymore.

[dks]

use a hammer   

[AimlessWanderer]

I use mine on anything that needs cutting where scissors would be more sensible than a knife  Nails, facial hair, paper, plastics, fabric, cutting straight lines or shapes rather than a rough cut, snipping something where it would be tricky to get a knife or there's nothing to cut against, harvesting stuff in the garden and light pruning...... the list goes on.

Scissors are one of my daily must haves, and this morning I've trimmed a couple of nails, and opened a new cartomiser for my e-cig. Both could have been done with a knife, but were easier and safer with scissors.

[Wilfried]

I use mine on anything that needs cutting where scissors would be more sensible than a knife  Nails, facial hair, paper, plastics, fabric, cutting straight lines or shapes rather than a rough cut, snipping something where it would be tricky to get a knife or there's nothing to cut against, harvesting stuff in the garden and light pruning...... the list goes on.

Scissors are one of my daily must haves, and this morning I've trimmed a couple of nails, and opened a new cartomiser for my e-cig. Both could have been done with a knife, but were easier and safer with scissors.

+ 1

Also those tiny bits of dead skin which sometimes show up after having cut my nails. The Victorinox scissors are extremely precise.

[aerojet]

Scissors are an indispensable cutting tool, close to the utility of using a blade. Far safer too, if you are trying to cut something and it is just tough, the blade may slip and oops! 

Where as with the scissors if it slips in any way, it just slips and you won't get cut. Wenger scissors have the serrated blades and dig in when the Vic type slip especially when cutting plastic.

They should not come loose, as most today as others have pointed out are riveted. If yours is the older screw type, just lightly peen the thing when you get it tightened with a screwdriver, but know you can get it too tight now - so be careful.

[Willem85]

How do you keep them from loosening?

What exactly is loosening? The screw at the pivot? If so, newer models don't use screws anymore.

Ah, Okay. That explains the popularity against my experiences.

They should not come loose, as most today as others have pointed out are riveted. If yours is the older screw type, just lightly peen the thing when you get it tightened with a screwdriver, but know you can get it too tight now - so be careful.

Yeah I noticed that you can over tighten them. So I screw 'm a little too loose and give 'm a couple of light taps and that's it, right?

[AimlessWanderer]

Or take the screw out altogether, put some nail varnish or even wood varnish on the threads to make them "gummy" and refit them. This should help keep the tension and stop them slackening off, but also let you adjust them in future as and when needed

[tommywp]

Tags off of kids clothes...constantly. Which by the way the Leatherman Style CS and Wingman scissors have a hard time with (at least in my hand) but the Visctorinox scissors do very well. I do this so often that I had to rearrange my carry 

[sawman]

I use my SAK scissors for more tasks than I can think to list right now. I ditto some of the things folks have posted in here already. It just so happens the Vic scissors are the best for cutting darn near anything.

Some 30 years ago, I received my first real SAK, a Hoffritz Swisschamp and used the scissors on it to cut my fingernails for many years. I still use SAK scissors for this (though recently got a pair of Vic nail clippers which I also use).

[Barry Rowland]

I'm a lefty, so the SAK scissors work for me in a way the regular scissors never could.  Nowadays, I use mine for everything from cutting paper and string to opening the little packets of instant coffee I hit up when I'm in a hurry. 

[Aloha]

Great responses so I'll just add the 91mm and 58mm scissors are awesome. 

[sawman]

Great responses so I'll just add the 91mm and 58mm scissors are awesome.

+1 Vic has a great thing going for them

[Smaug]

5%: Clipping newspaper coupons or articles
20%: Clipping loose threads on clothing
20%: Clipping tags off of clothing (store tags, and also the tags that rub against the skin inside the clothes)
30%: Fingernails
15%: Touching up body hair (moustache, beard, son's haircut, nose hair...)
10%: Everything else, for example, cutting lengths of electrical tape and small string.

[Aloha]

The great thing about SAK scissors is you never need to debate on what MT to get that doesn't include scissors.  For example if you are a ST300 or Rebar fan but the exclusion of scissors is the deal breaker no worry get a SAK with them. 

I heard some complained not wanting to carry a bunch of tools  .  Rebar and Classic for example are a terrific duo IMO, ymmv.   

[Wilfried]

5%: Clipping newspaper coupons or articles
20%: Clipping loose threads on clothing
20%: Clipping tags off of clothing (store tags, and also the tags that rub against the skin inside the clothes)
30%: Fingernails
15%: Touching up body hair (moustache, beard, son's haircut, nose hair...)
10%: Everything else, for example, cutting lengths of electrical tape and small string.

So you actually can provide us with statistics...     

[Smaug]

5%: Clipping newspaper coupons or articles
20%: Clipping loose threads on clothing
20%: Clipping tags off of clothing (store tags, and also the tags that rub against the skin inside the clothes)
30%: Fingernails
15%: Touching up body hair (moustache, beard, son's haircut, nose hair...)
10%: Everything else, for example, cutting lengths of electrical tape and small string.

So you actually can provide us with statistics...     

Ask and you shall receive!

[anditsgone]

i use them a lot for clipping fingernails and cutting zipties.

[Rich S]

I don't, that's why I carry a Tinker.
Rich

[NetsNJ]

It is gross, but the scissors on the Vic Classic are perfect for nose hair trimming.   

The great thing about SAK scissors is you never need to debate on what MT to get that doesn't include scissors.  For example if you are a ST300 or Rebar fan but the exclusion of scissors is the deal breaker no worry get a SAK with them. 

I heard some complained not wanting to carry a bunch of tools  .  Rebar and Classic for example are a terrific duo IMO, ymmv.   

Precisely.  I always have a Classic on my keys, so I don't mind not having scissors on the Rebar.

[buck]

Shrink.wrap plastic on the tops of vitamin bottles and such.

[Rossko07]

You really do appreciate a pair of scissors when you have them.

Paper, cardboard, small zip ties, double sided tape, cable shrink wrap, twine/string plenty more.

[buck]

The other day at a funeral my brother had an annoying 2" thread around his shirt pocket.  Sometimes when you pull them you wish you hadn't.  Snip snip, problem solved; and nobody looks at you like a psycho when you pull out your SAK.

[WiseDuck]

Yeah, that's what I've been using my Minichamp scissors on lately. Cleaning up clothes, removing loose threads and whatnot. When you pull them, you usually make things worse. So when I don't have a lighter handy, I just cut them off. If I'm at home, I usually burn the loose threads and then use the metal surface on my lighter to press down on the stub that's left, while the material is still hot, sort of like how you secure the ends of paracord that's been cut to size so it doesn't unravel itself.

[dks]

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[cbl51]

Mostly for trimming my beard.

The more serious part of it is that people don't freak out if you cut something with scissors as opposed to a knife, no matter how big it is. In around a month and a half of carrying a Classic the response is "Oh cool, can I see?" when I use the scissors. When any knife, even on that same Classic, is involved the response goes more towards insinuating my mental instability and carrying a weapon

THIS, PLUS A ZILLION!

I don't know ho many people I've converted to the SAK cause, by way of the classic. The overwhelming response was "That's so cute" or It's so cool!". The small size, plus the very high quality sharp scissors make it soooo  popular with women that it is the gateway drug to SAK's and knife carry in general. About half od the people I've gifted a classic to have gone on to getting a bigger SAK, always with scissors.

I really don't think a day goes by that I don't use the scissors on my classic at least once.