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Title: Blunted Kai Scissors as Trauma Shears
Post by: Etherealicer on May 29, 2016, 04:52:40 PM
I've been looking for heavy duty trauma shears now for a while and quite frankly found nothing I was willing to put my confidence in. The idea behind finding heavy duty trauma shears was in case something happens during fencing practice with everybody wearing heavy padded armor.

So, I asked a friend who was working in the ER at a mountain hospital (bikers in the summer, skiers in the winter), what they use to cut off biker uniforms and ski-overalls. And he told me they'd use normal scissors from Kai, which had been blunted. I of course immediately forgot about that but during my recent visit in one of my favorite knife stores the sales-guy pointed out that the local university hospital uses blunted scissors from Kai (see a pattern here?).

So, that is what I got.

(http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=66535.0;attach=271534;image)
First thing you notice, they are BIG. You can clearly see that all that has been done is the scissor tips that have been rounded.

(http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=66535.0;attach=271536;image)
The jaws open so wide, the great white gets jealous

(http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=66535.0;attach=271538;image)
Next to my regular trauma shears (Dovo, Solingen).
Title: Re: Blunted Kai Scissors as Trauma Shears
Post by: Etherealicer on May 29, 2016, 04:59:51 PM
They are fairly expensive, so are they worth it?

(http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=66535.0;attach=271540;image)
Cutting test on pant belt line, 4-fold. Both do a good job, the Kai cuts much cleaner and more than 3 times longer with a single stroke, yeah size rocks.

(http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=66535.0;attach=271542;image)
8-fold. The smaller shears have to give up here. Only with pulling cuts you can gnaw your way mm by mm. To the Kai it does not feel different from the 4-stack.

(http://forum.multitool.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=66535.0;attach=271544;image)
16-fold. Biggest test here was to fold the pants, the stack is 2-3 cm thick. Still no problem for the Kai scissors, the cut length is a bit shorter but it still cuts through like its nothing.
Title: Re: Blunted Kai Scissors as Trauma Shears
Post by: lowtech on June 09, 2016, 10:29:12 AM
Quite on the different end of scissor size, but when I mentioned to the Solingen Cutlery Guy on our market I was looking for decent kids nail scissors but courl not find any, he said I should buy a pair of decent Nail scissors and He´d blunt the tips.

Voila. Nicely cutting, non-pokey Nai lscissors for our rugrats.

Title: Re: Blunted Kai Scissors as Trauma Shears
Post by: TheDude on June 09, 2016, 05:46:30 PM
I have just gone back to my raptor. How much are the Kai?
Title: Re: Blunted Kai Scissors as Trauma Shears
Post by: Etherealicer on June 12, 2016, 12:38:19 PM
I have just gone back to my raptor. How much are the Kai?
With the blunting the same as LM Raptors.

I have played with a Raptor, but don't own one so I cannot really compare. All I can tell is that the Raptor is a lot smaller (but also lighter), also does not feel as solid. On the other hand the Kai cannot be folded and has no other functions than being a pair of scissors.