Here at MPC Labs, we're suckers for shears. Mostly because I cut stuff a lot, small stuff, little stuff, whatever. So I set out to make a Shear MT
I looks super hard for a decent set of folding shears, straight ones, not pruning shears and I found the Bear and Sons makes 2 flavors. They are the same shears, just different models. I went ahead and ordered the bird shears, meant for bird hunters.
On top is the Bird Shears, the middle, the donor body (LM Surge) and on the bottom is a set of folding pruning shears (see Beerplumber or Arborman)
The process is much the same for any of my mods, disassembly.
The Plier ramp springs are again unceremoniously bent and snapped off. The Plier head rest is a little bit more complicated needing to be milled flat, which is why it looks bent over in this picture
The shear head pivot points were widened by clamping them down and milling using a 3/16 carbide end mill. Moving back and forth inside the pivot and removing only a tiny bit at a time, using a pivot screw to check.
Some spacers were made from aluminum to shim the remaining space between the shear and the handles
The rest is assembly, starting with a set of shears that already folded made this mod pretty easy. There isn't any room on the inside for tools except for a flat bit driver/pry tool.
Here it is closed, a tiny gap because of the spring loaded shears.
I call this one pretty successful!
I just need to take a hero shot of it and its off to the races
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