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Monday, September 29, 2014

Irwin Vise-Grip Cutting Pliers

Pro Tool Reviews: Irwin is expanding its hand tool lineup with their newest Vise-Grip Cutting Pliers. These additions are designed to be more comfortable, durable, and have greater power than previous designs. All of the new Vise-Grip Cutting Pliers feature Irwin’s 3-Zone Comfort Grips. They also are manufactured with induction hardened cutting edges that will make it through ACSR, nails, screws, and piano wire.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

This sound like a very helpful tool. But I'm the kind of person that doesn't believe it until I see it. And by the looks of this tool, I don't think it would last very long. Just looking at it I feel that if someone only used this tool on think and bulky wires that the blade on the tool would be destroyed faster, even if this tool can cut through the object more comfortably than what we do now. But I'm not a huge expert on Irwin tool. But not having a lot to go off of that i my first impression of this tool. However, this tool looks useful as a household item or even an artistic tool for designers and installation artists.

Kimberly McSweeney said...

These pliers sound pretty awesome, to be honest. What I am wondering, though, is if they are spring loaded because my personal preference is to have some spring in my pliers for ease of holding and to have a more automatic release and preparation. Another thing I do like about these pliers is the fact that they have a built in wire-stripper, which makes them more targeted to the electrician crowd, but they still sound appealing to me.

Drew H said...

a plier is a plier in my opinion, keep your fancy technology, however helpful it might be, I want to transfer the force of closing my hand, into a little stronger force focused at a single location and thats it. I don't need special handles, i don't hold pliers all day, I don't need extra clamping pressure, my hands work well enough for what i have needed thus far in my life. I'm sure these tools work really well and are very helpful, but i personally don't feel any need to use them, I'm happy with my ole stanley (the good kind) or ridgid tools