Interesting. Bookbinders used pretty much the same tool, in large
sizes, to rough-cut binders' board before fine-trimming it with a
plough and press.

http://www.aboutbookbinding.com/Bookbinding-51.html

I have assumed that binders' suppliers just bought shears made for
tinsmiths (the Pexto tinsmiths catalogue from the , but I have never
handled a pair with a bindery provenance, but now I will have to
consider the issue of stiffness. Seems to me stiffness would be good for
binders.=A0

Tom Conroy San Francisco

Wes wrote:

"... I think you're going to see large versions of hand shears, versus
an actual pair of bench shears. The bench shears are notoriously stiff
because they need to be, so as not to twist the sheet metal down between
them instead of cutting it."






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