Material
- Stainless Steel: Some stainless steel alloys are good for cutlery.
- Cobalt: Cobalt is a very hard metal, but brittle unless combined with other metals to make an alloy.
- Molybdenum: Molybdenum is a strong metal with high flexibility.
Shaping
- Casting: Liquid metal is poured into a mold. If properly hardened, it can be durable, but will not hold the edge as long as a forged shear
- Drop Forging: A weighted mold is dropped with great pressure on to a hot bar of steel. The alloy is pounded into a desired shape which makes the metal more dense.
- Compression Forging: The metal is crushed into a desired shape, yielding a highly dense metal. Compression Forging makes it possible to have a lighter shear with tremendous strength.
Other
- titanium coating, super mirror finish, triple annealed, vacuum & sub-zero tempering