Paul Honore wrote: "Speaking of working with scissors all day....Note only one
side has a point.? Is that usual?"
The scissors traditionally used in England for cutting out bookbinding leather
have one squared point; binding leather is light as leather goes, but it is
thick by other standards, and I believe the squared point must have been used
generally for tough materials. I never found any advantage to it myself, and
have generally used heavy trimmers, specifically my mother's and grandmothers'
dressmaking shears. Of course, part of my rejection of the squared-off point
might be because my teacher never sharpened the ones she kept for students and
used herself. Not in fifty, maybe seventy, years.
Tom ConroyBerkeley
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