Left Handed Sheet Metal Snips

If the color of the tool is green this indicated a right hand pair.

Left handed sheet metal snips.

Klein tools 80 wiss 51 mabis 5. Find tin snips at lowe s today. Green snips are designed to cut clockwise curves and red snips to cut counterclockwise curves. Left cutting and right cutting forged steel jaws are set at a 90 degree angle to allow easy gripping when cutting sheet metal in tight spaces or overhead.

The all new latch design provides ergonomic single handed operation for left or right handed users. If you re left handed approach the cut from the opposite direction with red handed snips photo 2. But better known as a pair or left or right handed tin snips. The new generation of crescent wises metal master will cut over 8 miles of steel and feature up to 10 times longer cut life than traditional aviation snips.

Coppersmiths and custom metalworkers often use corner cut tin snips in conjunction with straight cut tin snips for precision work and cutting out intricate shapes in metal. New extended non slip handle grips give users better control while cutting. Cutting in a straight line with tin snips is easy. Aviation snips left cutting and right cutting vertical.

Aviation snips also called tin snips or compound snips even though they are different are the best hand tools for cutting sheets of metal.