High quality Japanese garden snips hand-wrapped with Wisteria rattan. Lovely snips for flowers and around the home, with a soft spring and an easy leather catch. Works very well as a pair of desk scissors.
Japanese steel is hard and sharp, and can be more brittle than some people are used to - it will chip if abused. Avoid cutting wire, metal, stone, plastic or any other hard material (even bamboo fibres and some very hard woods, especially knots and burrs, can damage steel edges)Do not twist or apply uneven pressure
Cut diagonally across branches (not straight across) so you cut along the fibres