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Posted by hipstomp | 17 May 2010
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We always maintain that updating simple tools is always the hardest, and there's more to this scissor re-design than just a swoopy re-style: San-Francisco-based Spencer Nugent has given scissors a hard re-think and realized it doesn't make much sense for the bottom blade to be bouncing up and down while trying to cut material laying on a tabletop. His innovative concept thus features a flat bottom that stays put while the top half does the chomping.
Check out the rest of Nugent's book on Coroflot.
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"hard re-think and realized it doesn't make much sense for the bottom blade to be bouncing up" - with this not only you have to press harder to cut something but with less muscle power
Not sure that's an improvement, but they do look sweet
@chlitto
How do you figure? This has the same mechanical advantage that a standard set would. I don't see a specific thumb position though so stability may be compromised.
unfortunately these are unbalanced and will twist with a cutting motion. traditional scisors with their 2 widely spaced finger holes give much more control. a nice piece of styling and innovative thinking, but a bit flawed too maybe?
Look at a scissors. The finger loop controls the top blade. Nothing is different here.
Seen it in Japan already.
I hope that the redesign includes an updated specification for the blade steel and honing, which is notoriously sub-par in a typical consumer-grade Fiskars. Other than that, excellent work!
@Ken J
the arms are to close so you can use only 2 finger phalanxes, only one arm is moving so no use for our strongest finger, the scissors have to have a spring so the moving arm will bounce back
i work for Fiskars and this single sketch has more content than the dozens of sketches i have seen from outside design firms in the past...$$$. SNUGA ROCKS.
@chlitto
The user now has 4 fingers pressing against the palm, which by my math is an advantage over the "scissor"-typical action of bringing the thumb to 1-3 other fingers.
I may be missing something, but it seems like the blades would need to 'spring' open, otherwise you'd have to awkwardly reposition your fingers to open them after each cut. This also means they would stay open when not in use, exposing the blades. I'm not sold on this design and have seen much better. In terms of rethinking scissors, check out the OXO scissors that double as a box-cutter/utility-knife - that's a much more usable example.