I am in need of some advice on purchasing something to cut material for making trees. I have some of the material shown here. It was obtained by me back in the early 80's and was know as horse hair packing. It can be cut and shaped, coated with glue and then a leaf material added and it makes reasonably good looking pine trees. The material however is a bear to cut. I tried using kitchen scissors and it just is very tough to cut. I would describe the material as close to thick carpet. At the price of commercial trees, a pair of adequate cutters seems a good trade off. Any help on a type of cutter would be much appreciated.
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I would use tin snips.
I wonder if a good pair of bypass hand pruners would work well?
Milwaukee brand shop shears. Basically a very heavy duty pair of scissors, but worth their weight in gold. I can cut brass sheet with them, all the way up to .010 and they never dull out. Not terrible expensive either, just about all the big box DIY places carry them, ……A roofer turned me onto them, he uses them to clip asphalt shingles…
Pat
Gentlemen, As always, "thanks" for your help. Bill
@harmonyards posted:Milwaukee brand shop shears. Basically a very heavy duty pair of scissors, but worth their weight in gold. I can cut brass sheet with them, all the way up to .010 and they never dull out. Not terrible expensive either, just about all the big box DIY places carry them, ……A roofer turned me onto them, he uses them to clip asphalt shingles…
Pat
Pat, is this what you're talking about?