Electrician makes the best side cutter pliers | marvel crosscut

I redesigned and modified my marvel cross cut pliers. Are these now the best side cutters around? They’ve helped me a heap as an electrician doing strip out at work.
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[@patrickc1508]

Knipex 95 12 165 or 95 11 165, and Klein 63265. They’re 6 1/2” mini cable cutters that have enough of a point for wire ties. They’ll easily cut 4awg, and they’re small and light. You can easily just slide them in your back pocket if you don’t want to deal with a tool belt and only need a couple tools. I personally like the knipex ones since they have a screw instead of a rivet for the pivot. You can take them apart and easily sharpen them on a wetstone or a piece of sandpaper on a hard flat surface if you do something that dulls the cutting edge. They’re incredibly handy, and my personal favorite wire cutters since I got my first pair over a decade ago.

[@davidmonsigneur7384]

Hi mate great idea. FYI band saw blades are hardened steel and plier are hardened steel hence why you struggled with the band saw cutting. You can mainly only use friction cutting for cutting hardened steel. Keep up the Great work

[@AddictedtoTools]

Cheers mate. Learnt a bit from this one 👍

[@dronkozkov5804]

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[@AndrewStrydomBRP]

Knipex does something similar in VDE, the 95 16 165 to be exact. Tip of the blades are pointed and usable for everything I might have used a diag cutter for.

[@saclebleuis2395]

Bro you're a genius! Million dollar idea mate

[@R1CK_54NCH3Z]

Renegade Industrial 180mm Flush Cut Zip Tie Cutters - RIFCZ-7 great for tightening, flush cutting and removing cable ties,(even stainless ties). they even sell a smaller pair and the best part is you get to keep your pliers for the job they were designed for.

[@mixologist4hire]

CK does really good cutters. Razor sharp. I use them also to slice, score and cut. Open all the way to end they become great to use as Stanley knife. Not 1000v insulated though. They can cut an armour cable up yo 6mm I think. Used them for years. If you carefully and take care of them they will last many years.

[@Icemane1995]

Marvel WATMA600 Diagonal cutters. That’s what I use in this situation and I cut a lot of cable ties. (I work in building switch rooms and constantly cutting ties under cable ladder under the sub)

[@AddictedtoTools]

Cheers mate. I wanted something to cut ties but also cut cable like shears. Diagonal cutters are fine but not as good as shears

[@Sneakybeaver77]

klein makes a pair of cutters that are similar, not sure if they are a available outside of NA but they are called the Klein 1104 All-Purpose Shears and BX Cutter

[@AddictedtoTools]

Very nice! I’ve never seen them. I’ll have to pick up a pair. Do you know if they have a 1000v rated version?

[@paulmacri4186]

Klein do not make a insulated version. Klein Australia do not bring the 1104 model into Aus but I am sure they can if you talk to the rep.

[@Tool_Addicted_Carpenter]

Awesome man. I feel like you could make them even pointier if you cut some of the sides off as well. I'd prefer a little spring too so I'm not chopsticking all day but nice mod for sure.

[@AddictedtoTools]

I’m also thinking a bit more pointy. I do like the spring idea. Usually not great on pliers, but for what I’m doing. Could be a winner.

[@Tool_Addicted_Carpenter]

@@AddictedtoTools I feel that. Springs definitely aren't my favorite on pliers but I was just considering what you do and figured it might make sense. Maybe just some small metal dowels spot welded to receive the spring or even something simple like some nice super glue. Not really sure. Off to the drawing board lol

[@deanobenito]

Fujiya Japanese cable tie cutters are some of the best

[@momouppa]

All the heat from the cutting disc will soften the steel, you can see the discolouration which means you let it get too hot.

[@AddictedtoTools]

Yeah I felt that may be the case. What would you recommend afterwards if anything?

[@jmbfmx]

@@AddictedtoTools when you cut them you should've had a constant water/coolant flow running over the pliers. Can't do too much with those ones now short of hardening them. It's probably more cost effective to cut another pair with coolant but that pair will do the job well for you. Love the idea!

[@AddictedtoTools]

Cheers mate. Will keep that in mind if I do something like it. I’ll see how these go. Have a good one 👌🍻

[@yuiotre]

I would say, hardening or heat treating it is not that hard to do for a DIYer with some common sense. Just need to find out the original rockwell hardness of the pliers. Owning or borrowing a testing kit might be a good way to find out. You can find plenty youtube videos about how to do that (so I won’t explain it here).

[@GTB-yu2be]

I'd buy it. I'm in the US trying to find the Marvel Crosscuts. I got them from Amazon about a year ago and recently lost them. Sucks they are no longer on Amazon for whatever reason. I have quite a collection of pliers. Non of which can take away the feeling of emptiness I've felt since I realized I lost the Marvels☺️.

[@Arjanius95]

Pretty sure NWS does some smaller VDE shears that have a decent enough point on them

[@paedahe4975]

👍 Great idea. I will now try it.

[@_P0tat07_]

There are special tools for removing zip ties that are specifically designed to prevent damaging the wires. They almost look like regular wire strippers but without the wire stripped notches in the jaws, and they have little beaks to protect the wires. And that’s my only concern with your custom tool. You left those ends very sharp so if you’re not careful you may damage the wires. I don’t think you’ll have issues with ruining the temper of the steel from abrasive cutting the jaws off, there’s some slight discoloration but It should hurt anything. I’d be more concerned if it started to rainbow and then glow red.

[@joemehere1151]

Well done! If you need a tool, make it! Brilliant. Thanks

[@mr.abdalsexperiment]

Nice mind blowing trick

[@littletigerlu2153]

I use black panther scissors, I reckon they're pretty good

[@AddictedtoTools]

Definitely a good point. Black panthers are amazing and cheap for what they can do

[@theranger1701]

Have had a few sets of marvel cross cuts with one side of the teeth chipping out, only cut copper with them all seem to have j prefix batch numbers possibly something to do with heat treatment or imperfections in the steel

[@antonwillis896]

Which blades do you prefer with the cut of tool for metal

[@HTES962]

This is weird as, 1 night ago I was looking for a type of side cutters sharp as crosscuts/ designed like crosscuts, the cutting force is amazing

[@stuarttthomas7847]

Did you find anything? I am after something like this but these tools are not available to buy in the UK

[@HTES962]

@@stuarttthomas7847 cable sheers are available in Aus was gonna buy a pair from knipex

[@charlesistheman]

Awesome man!!! Good job, I should make a pair

[@nibs2344]

Are CK pliers available in Australia, you should give them a try, popular in UK. CK 431003 would probably suit you best.

[@AddictedtoTools]

I’ll check them out. I haven’t seen them here 👍

[@paulmacri4186]

The CK 431003 are pliers, the only thing I could see in the CK range that may suit is the 430008 which are cable snips which almost have the cross cut action. This is the only one in their range that has almost a pointed tip and not a parrot beak tip

[@calvinpaul4456]

You’re a mad scientist brother. Absolutely brilliant. Keep the great content coming and cheers to you and yours from Michigan. You’re creation is about to be recreated here by me lol.

[@AddictedtoTools]

Aha cheers Calvin. I’m happy it came out great. Good luck and let me know how you go

[@jlcraparotta]

Great mod; have you tried the NWS 180mm side cutters? The head is more pointy than the knipex version and cuts like butter. . . But more expensive to buy over the marvels & mod

[@AddictedtoTools]

I’ve got the 200mm nws sidies. They’re really good. 👌

[@VoiD1x]

ATT should be on product development for a tool manufacturer 👌👌

[@jeremyhrvtn]

What about the heat treatment? 😬

[@robertneale7326]

Ouch.. But I'm surprised Marvel don't make these, though..

[@2loco]

Sawn off Marvel. I did the same thing with a legal shotgun. I got into trouble for doing it...

[@darylsavage119]

Knipex make a few styles of cutters like this

[@james7myers]

Marvel ME-22 drop-forged small wire cutters

[@Mytube060]

Hahahaha you’re a mad man but i dig it!

[@georgepappas7938]

knipex 95 16 165 insulated shears

[@AddictedtoTools]

Cheers mate. I looked at those but they don’t have that pointed tip like side cutters which I was after 👍

[@knipex_unofficial6294]

@@AddictedtoTools the 95 16 160 do have a tip for cutting you should test them

[@iangregoryhome]

These would be perfect if the plier end's were side cutters and the cable shears stay as they are 🤔

[@brentonwilks]

No cutting fluid?

[@illestofdemall13]

Those Knipex are diagonal cutters.

[@AddictedtoTools]

Cheers mate. They are called different things. We call them side cutters, some call them dikes, some call them diagonal cutters.

[@illestofdemall13]

@@AddictedtoTools Pardon my OCD. Side cutters have a different geometry than diagonal cutters and I use both linesman side cutting pliers and diagonal cutting pliers for electrical work a lot so if I called them the reverse I'd get handed the wrong tool. Lol. Klein has a heavy duty 9" diagonal cutters that I use for cutting cable, zip ties, and also prying nails and staples. I also use them as a mini hammer at times. Nice modification, and I'm surprised how hard they were to cut into. Must be high quality. Cheers.

[@lowvoltagedude7837]

🔥🔥🔥🍻

[@espnmk]

Klein tools D2000-48 pliers Made in the Great U.S. of A

[@atrainace114]

try wiha bi cut

[@Justin-ke5wy]

Milwaukee makes a pair

[@AddictedtoTools]

Pointed shears? I haven’t seen them. Do you know the part number?

[@ericrhinehart9155]

Couldn’t do it to my old girls.

[@marcinkolanowski5167]

Just get Knipex stepcuts

[@chenricky13]

Sterling scissors black panther

[@mmcfly867]

Heat treatment will be cooked

[@AddictedtoTools]

Most likely 👍

[@mmcfly867]

@@AddictedtoTools you're not going to be cutting "hard" things so it will probably be ok, the blades will just dull much quicker than they would have.

[@WillmannElectrical]

OMG you didn't 🤣🤣🤣

[@AddictedtoTools]

Bloody oath mate 😂

[@WillmannElectrical]

Should've cut up the red wattmaster ones lol - and i'm disliking this video on principal haha

[@AddictedtoTools]

Aha that’s very fair 😂

[@jacksimpson259]

Boring cable puller

[@AddictedtoTools]

??

[@edgardotanada4999]

wasted

[@matty_isthemotto]

Why not just buy some flush cutters?

[@AddictedtoTools]

Flush cuts aren’t the best for cutting cable. 2.5-6mm

[@brendanparker8707]

@@AddictedtoTools then Use side cutters, pliers or cable shears?

[@AddictedtoTools]

None of those are good at being both shears and side cutters. I go through this in the video