SURGICAL ONLINEOrtho Dental Hard Wire Cutter

I bought the hard wire cutter because the product description said it would cut 0.028-inch hard wire. I use it to cut 0.025-inch piano wire for my model railroad turnout throw wires and it works perfectly. The cutting edge of most cutters is damaged when you try to cut piano wire or other hard wire, but not these. These cutters remain unblemished and make a clean cut every time. I have bought two more cutters for friends as a gift.

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Literally cannot cut a string, let alone a brace wire. Complete waste of money.

These are extremely strong, made out of extremely high quality metal. They are made out of metal that is better than 99% of all tools. They are real stainless steel and they have real carbide teeth. I tried filing the teeth and the file won't even scratch the carbide teeth on these.The problem is, these cutters are absolute trash. The cutting edges aren't filed and shaped properly. They are dull. They are so dull, it's almost impossible to cut a single piece of soft 16 gauge stranded, wire. I tried cutting various things, and it feels like you have to put about 10 times harder to make a cut than using a regular small wire cutter. The blades just aren't sharpened properly. They come together very evenly, and the metallurgy is extremely good. The brazing joints look really good, in fact, flawless. But the cutting edges are not filed correctly, and therefore these are totally useless. You might as well just buy larger "beveled" cutters that are hardened. You can buy a set of hardened Knipex bevel cutters for $40 that will cut hard wire without any problem.For $10.99, I am definitely keeping these. I can't imagine that anyone could make something this beautiful for $10.99. They are a bargain. I am probably going to buy a couple more pair. These need to be heavily modified in order to work well. But once modified, they would be equivalent to $150 cutters.The modifications these need are:1.) Set screw needs to be drill and tapped and added just behind the cutter edges, so set the depth of the cut, to prevent smashing the blades together and possibly chipping the hard carbide teeth.2.) These need to be filed with a diamond file, sand paper, a stone, or a grinder (or whatever else you have that is harder than a file). They could be brought to a sharpening store, and professionally sharpened. I suspect that if you sharpened these to "flush cutters" they would be very good for electronics work or small wires. A small bevel could be left for cutting harder wires and dental wires. Making them too sharp could weaken the metal, so don't over sharpen them.

Cutting edge broke off. Unusable now