My absolute best container garden and kitchen tool

Do other people love and rely on their scissors as much as I do? I'm posting a photo of the garden/kitchen tool I use MANY times daily. Yes, sometimes I cut paper, fabric, thread, or yarn. But this pair of scissors is my go-to permaculture life tool. Today I used it for transplanting and in the kitchen, too. How about you?  Show us your scissors!

Here's a blog post with lots of scenic scissors. Scroll down to see a poem called Ode To Scissors that I wish I'd written! http://thedoilyduck.blogspot.com/2012/12/an-ode-to-scissors.html

I use heavy duty kitchen or shop scissors for harvesting. They have serrations on one side; perfect for fibrous materials.

I find light, sharp pruning shears a lot more versatile overall. Preferably thin ones that sit nicely in my back pocket.

Garden & kitchen tool, hmm. since I've been know to wash motorcycle parts in the kitchen i guess you should take my selection with a grain of salt. Be-ing a simple man my favorite garden tool is a single edged tool, my go to is a blacksmith rework knife i picked up in the 1980s and my grandfathers machete he picked up in Hatti doing missionary work after WWII. i do know about my wife's two edged tools <scissors>  but i know better than to get those dirty/rusty like my other stuff..... John

Well, I have never washed motorcycle parts in my kitchen... But every day I have to move my art supplies to the other side of the counter to fix food. Yes, my scissors do art as well as food in my kitchen. But those motorcycle parts... you got me beat in the kitchen mess department, for sure.

MiaSherwood Landau, perhaps you might add (Scissors!) to the thread title.

Otherwise knife knuts like J. Syme and me are liable to hijack your thread!

Gentlemen! I love seeing your favorite blades for kitchen and garden use! You are all welcome in my scissors post, for sure. But yes, thank you for the heads up on how to title a post including keywords. I needed that.

While I also am very partial to my snakehead hoe and my machete (and my woodchipper....), I also have a dear pair of scissors!

They are quite old, they were forgotten in a drawer in my first apartment in Japan approximately a million years ago (the handles were still blue back then). They've been around the world with me and I use them every day (during the same period I've gone through at least 4 chef's knives), and while I have dedicated garden scissors these are just as likely to be in the pocket of my work pants when I'm outside.
I rarely sharpen them, but they are still sharp enough to easily take apart a chicken or cut pig skin.

Very cool old scissors! And I love to see tools with "road wear." I can't quite make out the etched inscription, but it looks like a Zwilling Henckels logo. So they are indeed good quality German-made scissors!

Indeed, says Friodur Inox Germany (when I first got them I didn't need a microscope to read it!!!)... Whoever left them for me had good taste.

Teresa, that’s an awesome pair of scissors, especially with your stories attached. Couldn’t stop myself from searching for the brand for sale online and found several pair from $30 to $80. I am so tempted, having heard your experience. Thank you so much for sharing even if you’ve created a big temptation for me, too!

MiaSherwood Landau wrote:Gentlemen! I love seeing your favorite blades for kitchen and garden use! You are all welcome in my scissors post, for sure. But yes, thank you for the heads up on how to title a post including keywords. I needed that.

Here's the scissors I'm comfortable using... I rarely touch the cutting fabric, or hair, or food scissors <because I know better>.  John

since I seem to be among scissor people I think I'll share a few more!!!
I have new fabric shears, but these are apparently from some distant tailor relatives that nobody in the family really remembers, and I break them out every so often when I'm working on a project. Both American made, Wiss and Robeson, and both sharp as the dickens still despite needing some serious cleaning.

The poor pinkers, on the other hand, are duller than the proverbial leather sickle and almost impossible to use with the arthritis in my hands, but I keep them because they make me smile. One one trip between NY and Japan I brought my Gram's sewing kit (in my checked baggage, of course) and an X-ray screener in New York thought they looked like a pistol, made some loud and rather excited accusations, and the security goons decided to dump out my entire suitcase (full of said sewing kit and a year's worth of Irish breakfast tea and lingerie)-- back in the day there was no special room and man was that fun for everyone.

Scissors people, indeed… You guys make talking about scissors so fun! Vintage scissors are to be treasured. They represent the basic simplicity and utility in home and garden that permaculture is all about, at least that’s how I see them. You remember that old party game question -  “If you were isolated on a desert island what one thing would you want to have with you?” Well, for me it would be scissors. For sure. I might even figure out how to start a fire with them!