Re:Which emoji scissors close? (2020)
by Dylan16807 on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:24AM
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> You really do need to apply force to bring the blades together or they won't cut well.
It depends on the scissors. With the pair I'm holding right now, even if I'm actively pushing so the blades would move apart, they stay tight enough to cut fine.
Notably, the blades are curved into each other, which is capable of compensating for a moderate amount of hinge slack and narrowing the cutting to a single point. And the hinge has very little slack in the first place because it has a big flat mating surface.
Have you watched little kids learn to use scissors? You really do need to apply force to bring the blades together or they won't cut well. You likely do this unconsciously. I didn't think about it until I was teaching my children how to cut with scissors and noticed that they would generally end up folding the paper were I could cut it (toddler scissors aren't very sharp, so it's even more important to push the blades together from the side).