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.

 

[G_Smolt]

A 4" end nipper. Works like a charm for everything I don't wanna use expensive scissors for.

 

[Sam Roffe]

I've used scissors. But I also am a electronic tech so I have 1/2 dozen side cutters laying around. The micro ones work great.

 

[RCF]

Flat edged fingernail clippers
cheap
strong

Work perfectly.

Bigger hands?
Toenail clippers

 

[Matt B]

 

[Matt B]

Srsly tho I have an old set of these cuticle nippers that I keep in the tying tools for clipping stubborn wire.

 

[skyriver]

Srsly tho I have an old set of these cuticle nippers that I keep in the tying tools for clipping stubborn wire.


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Same. They do well on 100# fluoro as well. You know, when I'm casting wet socks for those stupid log fish.

 

[Russell]

Kline telecom scissors. They were made to cut smaller wire. Or the Kline flush cutters. Both work well with wire

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[Paige]

We used to call them dykes, but apparently that is a derogatory and insensitive term now days

 

[fatbillybob]

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

and home depot and old school electronics stores that sell resistors and transistors

 

[clarkman]

Knipix High Leverage diagonal cutters are always in my musky boat box in case i need to cut a hook (haven't yet), but they work great for wire too.