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I was NOT a smart child, and i managed to damage a pair of these by cutting the cord on a plugged in device. But otherwise yeah, they last forever!
Wow! That's shocking!
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Well, I'm sure you're not the only child to ever do that.
One might say it was a shear heart attack.
Never done it with Scissors, but have done is twice with linemans pliers, they blew out ~1/4"ร hole centered on the cutting edges.
It was a little bit too exciting. How did your childhood pants fair?
Done this with same result.
I'm surprised you weren't even more damaged!
Most of Fiskars scissors have a plastic-covered (orange) handle. Ones that don't have them are very rare. And yes, when you see them there's no way to tell whether they were made in the 1980's or in 2020's, because they will work the same and look the same either way.
These werent Fiskars, i think they were another brand listed in another comment (Gingher?) And solid metal sewing shears ๐
Ok, that's a shocking thing to hear indeed!
Yeah, apparently it made a pretty solid notch in the blade. My survival of early childhood borders on impressive, they knew my mom by name in the ER
when I was a kid we'd dip a butter knife in the swimming pool and pull a mains powered plug out of the socket half way and take turns touching the wet knife to the prongs. we'd then discuss how your muscles would lock up and you couldnt pull the knife away