Have you ever used a really high quality pair of scissors?  When you rely on scissors to behave consistently, cut well and last, nothing is as good as a well made antique pair of scissors.  I personally have an old set of German Dreizack that I love.  Old well made scissors cut well when you're snipping the last bit of cloth right at the tips.  They are well pointed to get into corners, blah blah blah.  I'm a fan, anyway.

You see these are stamped as "inlaid" scissors.  That means Wiss borrowed an ancient Japanese technique of fusing one very hard, sharpenable piece of steel to another softer, more flexible steel.  Hard steel gets brittle, though it sharpens well so they get the flexibility out of forge welding to a softer steel, thus, a hard steel piece is "inlaid" into the cutting edges.  You can see the two different steels in the close up I have taken.  It adds a process to manufacturing so these scissors would have cost a good deal more than the average pair would have when they were sold.  A truly professional set.

So these are stamped as 10" scissors.  10 3/8" is the exact overall length.  From the tips to the pivot they are 5 3/8" and the cutting edges measure 4 3/4".  I have shown them open to show they have not been sharpened.  If these had been sharpened many times, they would develop a gullet at the pivot point.  They will still work well then but their lives are limited by too many sharpenings.  I'm not being silly when I say they are scissors you could hand down.

I've given them a good going over: painted the handles, honed the blades and lubricated the pivot.  I've tightened the pivot screw to just the right tension and they are ready to go.

Made in North America too!

Good luck and thanks for looking at another sale by The Mighty Atom.