The 12 inch hardened industrial shears are designed for hard work. If you’re a craftsman who loves our scissors but worries that the other styles won’t quite cut it, then these are the shears for you. Handmade and expertly put together, they have the same precision and feel that make Ernest Wright scissors world-famous; but with 6 inch hardened carbon steel blades, they cut with confidence through all types of technical textiles. Letting you focus on your craft.
12″ Hardened Industrial Shears
£225.00$316.79€282.93
Available on back-order
Our scissors and shears are made in small batches.
A batch can take up to 12 weeks.
In stock items are despatched within 10 days.
Backorders are fulfilled in order as batches are completed.
Backorders placed after 16 October will not be delivered before Christmas.
Made in Sheffield
Details
- Category
- Sewing
- Type
- Industrial shears, Leather shears, Upholstery shears
- Use
- Tailors and craftsmen, cutting (technical) fabric, Leather, canvas, denim
- Total length
- 13 inch 1/4 / 33.02 cm
- Blade length
- 6.3 inch / 16 cm
- Weight
- 1200 g
- Steel
- C60 carbon steel
- Forging
- Hot drop forged
- Finish
- Hand polished
- Packaging
- Suede pouch handmade in Sheffield
- Handedness
- Right-handed
Testing our metal
We need to use extremely durable steel to equip shears for the toughest cutting applications. This applies to all of our tailoring shears patterns – and especially the 12″ Industrial Shears, a durable, long-lasting pattern intended for cutting upholstery and technical fabrics.
There are a few different ways to test the hardness of steel. We tend to use the Rockwell hardness testing method. The shears forging is secured on a Rockwell hardness testing device, then indented twice using a diamond indenter, under a different load each time. The difference between measurements for the two loads gives us a read on the hardness of the steel. If the shears forging is as hard as expected, we’ll know that it can be used to make a suitably durable pair of shears.
Another key testing process is using the finished shears to cut relevant sample materials. Sometimes, the customer will send us a sample of fabric – such as tough denim, neoprene or a rigid plastic – so that we can try cutting it with the shears, before confirming the order.
We hear some amazing tales about the capabilities of the 12″ Industrial Shears. As a model that would historically have been more commonplace as a pair of upholstery shears, the 21st century sees this model being used to cut Kevlar, a technical fabric used to make bulletproof vests.
