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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: HeelSpur on March 12, 2016, 03:38:42 PM

Title: 11" Shears
Post by: HeelSpur on March 12, 2016, 03:38:42 PM

Anybody edumicated on these? Age and such...


(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1559/25641050781_034a707bb0_m.jpg)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1550/25105644114_44ed64c5f8_m.jpg)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1581/25736025165_4d17a363e2_m.jpg)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1506/25614985132_015bc83e69_m.jpg)

Title: Re: 11" Shears
Post by: Bill Houghton on March 12, 2016, 04:17:22 PM

Probably fabric shears.  You might look up the name, see if you can find anything online.

Title: Re: 11" Shears
Post by: HeelSpur on March 12, 2016, 04:42:27 PM

Quote from: Bill Houghton on March 12, 2016, 04:17:22 PM

Probably fabric shears.  You might look up the name, see if you can find anything online.

OK thanks Bill, didn't think about fabrics. No name on it just Shear Steel.

Title: Re: 11" Shears
Post by: Aunt Phil on March 12, 2016, 08:09:23 PM

Believe it or not, there is a website for tailors where you can discuss hand sewing your own suit together.
They have a scissors forum too.

I can tell you with absolute certainty those are for light fabric cutting, not canvas, by the geometry of the thumb hole.

Title: Re: 11" Shears
Post by: anglesmith on March 14, 2016, 12:52:01 AM

They are very likely hand made with the blades fire welded to handles and the bows are welded where the bow touches the straighter part of the handle.  The weld of the blade to the handle is usually easy to see. But the bow welded if well done is harder to detect especially if the rust hasn't been removed.  Cast (crucible) steel was first used for "fine" (better) quality scissors from the 1760s in England but there were probably shear steel blades long after that !?
Graeme