Finally compared my $40 shears to a pair of $180 Katanas and wow what a difference

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I mean yeah, that price jump is no joke but it's real. I had a similar thing happen with my sewing shears a few years back. The cheap ones would start dragging after like an hour of cutting, but the good ones just glide through everything even after a full day of work. If you can swing it, getting them professionally sharpened once a year makes them last forever too.

keith_rodriguez13d ago

Hold on now, I gotta push back a little here. I bought a "pro" set of garden pruners once thinking they'd be a game changer and honestly they felt exactly the same as my old $15 pair for the first six months. Then after a year they got just as dull and I was out way more money when I finally had to replace them because the fancy brand didn't even offer sharpening in my area. Plus with cheap shears I can just buy three for the price of one of those premium ones and swap them out when they get bad. If you're not using them every single day for a living the extra cost just doesn't pay off in my experience.

nancy_ross12d ago

@keith_rodriguez "exactly the same" is the part that gets me. Cheap tools hide their flaws until the worst moment. Saving money upfront costs you time later for sure.