Dipping my toes into Napoleonics

It has been pointed out to me in the Unofficial Hobby Hangout (UHH) that the pair of scissors I’ve been using is huge… So, I thought I’d talk a bit about scissors today! For this discussion I’ve made the following photo:

I started out using the smallest pair of scissors I’d found in our household, scissors nr. 2. Now, Peter from Peter’s Paper Boys did mention that one should get a pair of precision scissors. The video in which he said so didn’t have a clear image of them and, to be honest, I didn’t think to look up this up. I did know that scissors nr. 2 wasn’t going to cut it (…) in the long run, since after a hefty snipping session my hand would hurt and I lost feeling in my thumb (I guess a nerve got stuck or something).

So, on to scissors nr. 3! Now you may ask yourself what is special about them. Well, the label said that they were for precision cutting AND for left-handed fools like myself. I’ve never used left-handed scissors, so I thought that this might improve my snipping comfort. Well, it did to a degree. I never noticed that right-handed people using a regular pair of scissors don’t have to twist their hand to look on the outside where they’re cutting. What takes even more time to get used to, however, is that I unconsciously press the blades of the scissors in such a way that it gives you a finer cut. Or in the case of the left-handed pair, a sloppyer cut, since you push them away from each other.

After a bit I did get used to nr. 3, but to be honest, they actually seemed less precise than nr. 2! It was then that I stumbled across scissors nr. 4, while looking for something completely different. I had seen the UHH by now and thought to myself that these might actually be the scissors that @avernos was talking about. Now, these are actually more precise. I only have to watch out that I don’t close them completely, since that might rip a tiny bit of paper (which could be a tiny lance or rifle). I’m happy with these for now.

Now, why did I include scissors nr. 1 in the photo? Well, to point out that I actually could have used an even larger pair!