Steel for Scissors

Tommegow

Tommegow

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My wife decided I "could" make her a pair of scissors. I was wondering what steels would work better for this purpose.
I am hoping she would not use them as a lever nor stab anything or anyone with them.
Cutting basically paper, cardboard and occ cloth
Y'all think rust an issue with cloth common household use??
 
I want to know this too! Seems like 1080 or something similar would work. Is there any special grinding that must be done to make scissors?
 
I would think 13C26 or 12C27, the stainless steels with a very fine carbide structure.
 
I use to sharen a lot of knives and scissors commercially and have some nice old ones around the house. I really like the old carbon steel scissors the best, they throw a shower of sparks, like W1 or 2 or 1095, seems like pretty high carbon stuff to me.
 
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Some of the high gloss filled papers have things like clay in them .Very abrasive.Are the handles and blades going to be made separately ?
 
I would make a paper scissor out of vascowear, and a cloth shear out of some of Aldo's 1084

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mete said:
Some of the high gloss filled papers have things like clay in them .Very abrasive.Are the handles and blades going to be made separately ?
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I have on hand D2 and 5160 in the right size.
I could order something else if that would be better.
I am also in a quandary as how to attach them together.
The several pair I have dissected are riveted. Any suggestions??
I have also contacted David @ Great Lakes about cutting me a pair from
my bar-stock, handles and blades in one unit, mirrored to make a pair
thanks
Tom
 
Better scissors are held together with a screw or bolt. This allows them to be taken appart for easier maintenance. Either one half is threaded or it has a nut.

ron
 
Aldo has that 1060 that CAME from a scissors factory, I would suggest that hehe. HMMMM.....scissors with a hamon......hmmmmm :D .
 
On a good pair of shears, the blades will touch only at the tip when they're
closed. When in use the edges touch only at the spot on the edge that is
actually doing the cutting.

Also, the inner surfaces of the blades are often a very precise, shallow
hollow grind.

1095...W1...W2
 
Sam's right. The 1060 I have was being used by a scissor company in New Hampshire. Guess they closed down and moved far east.
 
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