Left Handed Sheet Metal Snips

Green snips are designed to cut clockwise curves and red snips to cut counterclockwise curves.

Left handed sheet metal snips.

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. Cutting in a straight line with tin snips is easy. 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.

Find tin snips at lowe s today. Klein tools metal cutting shears carpet scissors electrical scissors scissors vinyl tile scissors emt 2 00. New extended non slip handle grips give users better control while cutting. 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.

If you re left handed approach the cut from the opposite direction with red handed snips photo 2. Left handed heavy duty industrial shears model w20lh 34 05 34 05. You can use the snips with either hand but if you re right handed you ll find it easier to use green snips for many types of cuts photo 1a. Aviation snips also called tin snips or compound snips even though they are different are the best hand tools for cutting sheets of metal.

Aviation snips left cutting and right cutting vertical.