Crescent Wiss 11" Multi-Purpose Cutter - MPX5

Clunky if you have small hands.

I'm a roofer and have been for a decade now. I've always seen (and used) tinners snips or a hook blade for cutting shingles and so does every other roofer I know. Well I got real tired of the slow cutting speed with the snips being that they're like sisscors and aren't spring loaded, and the inaccuracy of the hook blade always frustrated me so I had to find a better way. Low and behold I found these which claimed to be tough enough to cut shingles. I excitedly bought them, and boy oh boy they weren't kidding. These things slice through shingles like a hot knife through butter, and they work exactly like a pair of sisscors, easy to keep them straight while cutting, and the spring action increases the speed of those cuts by quite a bit. I haven't had to sharpen them yet, but I'm sure that will be easy as well. Anybody that works with shingles or other construction materials that require cutting should have a pair of these. They work really good for vinyl siding and j/f channel as well!

When I saw this tool demonstrated, I thought it would be a tool replacement for a number of my other tools. It's more like Super Heavy-duty pair of scissors. Nothing wrong with that! Works GREAT cutting thru the heavy, thick sealed-plastic wrap around products you buy these days (that destroys your best scissors!) If material is "thin" metal/sheeting/carpet, it will cut like a breeze! Thicker the material, harder it is to cut. Think it might work well for garden sheers, except for heavy branches.The tool is comfortably easy to handle; blade is sufficiently open to cut a 3" length each time. Haven't used this for many projects yet, so no idea how long the blade might/may remain sharpened. When I tried to cut something "too thick", noticed minor scarring on the tool, which may/may not have affected the sharp edge on the tool blades. But, for $15, think I can find many uses for this tool.

I like they are multi purpose!I gave a pair to my AC contractor brother. He loves them and is his current go to tool for cutting sheetmetal in tight places.I used them to cut my ducting for my microwave. Now they hang on the mag strip for kitchen use. They are great for cutting dried meat treats for dogs that are too hard for our heavy duty kitchen shears! Even tougher than poultry shears for cutting through bone!I Totally love them!One thing though.. my brother lost his lock close button. Try to keep track of that.

Bought these to speed up a couple of roofing projects. These cut through 1 layer of composite shingles like paper, but when you hit a double stack section you'll need to use a little more grip. Still leaps and bounds nicer and quicker over using a hook blade. The blade is made out of some tough stuff, the little gravel pieces on the shingle can't nick the blade, its made out of some hard steel. The grips felt pretty nice and the built-in lock is also convenient for the tool belt / rig.

Durable and can use on shingles and metal roofing!! Needs some attention on the locking aspect, the cheap piece of plastic doesn’t work beyond the first day! Zip ties work better than what’s provided

Tin snips were all scratched up and rusty in the package. The sticker says they’re new but they look like they were used and put back in the package.

Cutters do the job in slicing through materials. But the blades lock is pathetic. Within a few times, he plastic blades lock won't function any more. If they used the same blades lock mechanism in the previous version of Wiss cutters, there would not be an issue. But changing to the cheaper plastic has made it necessary to find your own solution to locking the blades. Won't be buying again with this design.