I have just completed my first scissors as a practice, I intend to make more but out of pattern welded steel. Those were forged from 2 grade 12.9 counter sunk bolts. At start I had forged and partly ground the taper the wrong way but was able to correct the mistake

I have removed the thread as this is bad for cold shuts and removed the tapered head for ease of forging as well

Cool. I like to collect the grade 5 and 8 grade bolts for blacksmithing, when I find them cheap, but I never thought of making scissors out of them.

Brilliant sir, well done!  What was your heat treat process for the blades?

So far I havent heat treated it at all, What ever sort of steel it is is fairly hard just from air cooling and I suppose the lack of mass lets it cool quickly as well. I will probably do a heat treat that will be just the usual non magnetic and temp to a dark blue or some thing that can be filed

Mr NZ, that is a lovely piece of practical forge work. The scissors look comfortable to hold.

Well done …. and cheers from across the 'dutch'.

Cheers back at ya Ausfire from across the Deetch LOL I wont try quoting as with my clumsy keyboard skills getting me in trouble with the Mods