Which Wire Cutters Are Best For Me?

re: Which Wire Cutters Are Best For Me?

JanA@8 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:39:15 GMT

Carolee,

Sorry I didn't see your post at the time you posted it, I don't receive notifications. To answer your question, you don't have to spend a lot, the two pairs of my cutters in my photos were less than $10 each pair, and the pliers were about $18 each pair, there are more expensive ones on the market, but I have had one or two pairs go missing, and these are pretty good for the price.

I also recommend these cutters for new wire workers, if you are still enjoying wirework after a few years you can gradually upgrade as the cheaper ones wear out.

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carolee1945 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:26:12 GMT

There are so many difference prices for memory wire cutters, from $13 to $25. Does it matter to buy the cheaper ones?

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Yaguarra — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:44:40 GMT

I just love getting into my emails and finding my Beading Daily - such a rich range of informative articles and interesting stuff. Keep up the good work!

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JanA@8 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:18:52 GMT

M.S.

The heavy duty cutters at the top of the page are Jen's and not mine, but some hardware stores may have something similar. Hopefully Jen will see your post and will be able to give you more information.

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JanA@8 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:08:42 GMT

Lynda,

The lightweight blue handled ones I have are Beadsmith, I bought them at Ayla's Originals in Evanston, Illinois, which is the store I teach at. The Hardware store pliers came from Matty K's which is an independent local hardware store on the corner of Lawrence and Western in Chicago. Your local hardware store may have something similar. I hope this helps,

Love, Jan

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sremmus — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:44:31 GMT

Hay, great artical but I would like to know where to buy cutters like the one's

top right of the article page? They look really heavy duty.

M.S.

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Lynda Dalton — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:22:59 GMT

I enjoyed the colum about wire cutters.

What brand are these and where did you buy therm?

Thanks for all the great articles!

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siragwatkins — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:39:07 GMT

And BTW, the cheapest "school" Fiskars are great for memory wire, though of course you can't use that pair for anything else.

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siragwatkins — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:37:04 GMT

My best buy and favorite tool (I now have 2, one for home& one in my travel kit---but ittook almost 5 years to find the 2nd pair! I THINK JoAnn's may have them in stock) is a pair of round-nose pliers witha cutter and a round groove just behind the points for closing jump rings evenly and straightening wire.

I use them constantly, not only to make loops, but (especially) to close jump rings evenly.

The cutters are good enough for basic work, too, & sometimes I evenuse the points for holding things in tiny spaces.

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siragwatkins — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:36:54 GMT

I use them constantly, not only to make loops, but (especially) to close jump rings evenly.

The cutters are good enough for basic work, too, & sometimes I evenuse the points for holding things in tiny spaces.

re: Which Wire Cutters Are Best For Me?

JanA@8 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:43:43 GMT

Lynne,

The reason I didn't include brand recommendations is partly due to space, an also my hands are small, so what may work well for me, may not be so comfortable for you. The blue flush cutters in the article are Beadsmiths, the round nosed and chain nosed pliers are made by Euro tool. i would still visit your local bead shop, or bead shows ans try before you buy.

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FlorenceBeader — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:59:22 GMT

My crimping pliers are just the best for neatly pressing down wire ends in wrapped loops. They don't distort the wraps like using chain-nose pliers can.

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lynne.phelps@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:17:28 GMT

I was hoping for some brand recommendations as I do not have a place to try them out before buying. Wonderful article, I have not worked with Memory wire. I had no idea they needed a heavy-duty cutter, and probably would have ruined my regular flush cutters!

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chrissi@3 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:12:26 GMT

I had some heavy duty cutters that I used for memory wire, but they weren't flush cutters and eventually as cutters do they got blunted, my son was at the time into making model railway layouts and we used to go to a lot of the shows- well cutting a long story short I got a set of diamond sharpening files(I think they are supposed to sharpen planes) which I used to sharpen my cutters, and, as a side effect they are all now flush cutters, and as the files came as a keyring type set all the grades from coarse to fine are kept together too