What do you cut wire with?

[DerekWhipple]

What is your preferred tool to cut fly tying wire? With wire rib, the helicopter technique usually works for me, but I haven't figured out what to do with brushes. I have a sacrificial pair of scissors, but it's still murder on them. Something that holds up, but is still small enough to cut close to the body would be best.

 

[Zak]

What is your preferred tool to cut fly tying wire? With wire rib, the helicopter technique usually works for me, but I haven't figured out what to do with brushes. I have a sacrificial pair of scissors, but it's still murder on them. Something that holds up, but is still small enough to cut close to the body would be best.

I either use an old pair of short Fiskars curved scissors that I bought at a hobby shop, or I use the very bottom part of the cutting on my good scissors, near the hinge.

One of these days, I'll get a small flush cutter tool.

 

[CRO]

diagonal wire cutters. should be able to find some small pair in a craft store.

 

[Draketake]

Flat edged fingernail clippers
cheap
strong

Work perfectly.

 

[troutpocket]

The first tying scissors I bought are my dedicated wire cutters. I put a little tape on the finger loop to remind me.