J.A. Henckels International Kitchen Shears

I have my own copy of this pair of scissors and I just bought another for my mother since I've been so happy with my set for the past year. The scissors are robust and can cut pretty much anything in the kitchen. My wife is afraid I'll take it out to cut roofing or aluminum siding, and I think it would do a fine job. The blades are so well machined and the tolerances so close that I have used it to cut Saran wrap. And (don't tell my wife) on a couple of occasions I've used it to trim my fingernails.
It has a bottle opener in the middle, and though we seldom have bottles that require the old fashioned bottle-opener, I'm glad I have this for the ocassional imported beer or what-have-you. I've not used the serrated "gripper" in the handle yet, but tonight I'm going to try it as a nut-cracker--I think it will work well with pecans.

These are great, heavy-duty kitchen utility scissors. So good, my previous pair disappeared under suspicious conditions by small hands for kid projects. They feel just right in the hand, and I haven't found anything yet they wont cut easily.

We have had these scissors for a couple of years. The blades have stayed sharp, but a crack that soon developed in one handle finally broke all the way through today, leaving them useless. We never used them to do messy chores because the blades do not separate (The Fiskars scissors get used then). We will buy a different type next time.

I bought these to replace an old pair that had lost their "edge" and was pleasantly suprised at how sharp these were. Nice to handle and fit perfectly into the Henckels knife block I already own.