Dressing scissors

Quite a few fly-dressers palm their scissors in order to save time at
the bench, and also for ease of use.

I was not really satisfied with the various "palming" scissors, and
snips which are available, but there is no doubt that palming scissors
saves a lot of time and messing on, ( it is also easier to find them
after a "few drams" !!!! ) so I sat down this afternoon and studied
the problem a little more.

The ones I have used here, are cheap "spring" iris scissors which I
bought at a flea market for 2 Euros. One might of course modify higher
quality scissors, but these are perfectly adequate. They cut very
precisely right to the very fine tips.

You can find the modifications required to make excellent palming
scissors here;

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8690

TL
MC