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Are you a bud connoisseur? Many people who smoke, vaporize or cook with medical marijuana prepare the flowers before use. This entails either crushing the buds in a grinder, mashing them with your fingers, or cutting them up with scissors.

Let’s look at the benefits and drawbacks of these three methods.

Grinder:

+  The grinder is a handy invention for anyone needing to obliterate their herbs into fine powder. A grinder requires little effort and can do a fairly good job of breaking apart the bud. Some grinders come with a stash compartment built in.

– Grinders are hard to clean. While grinding, a lot of the most potent pollen from the plant ends up stuck in the teeth of the grinder. This can be difficult to remove, and is not something you would want to wash away. Grinders can be wasteful for those that like to conserve.

Cost: around $20 online with shipping

 

Using your hands

+ If the bud is dry enough, rubbing it between two fingers should do the trick. More humid bud that has not been cured properly or missed an extra day hanging will not break up easily with your fingers.

– The only downfall of using your fingers is you will inevitably end up with pollen on your fingers, so if you need to be discrete it’s best to not physically touch the bud.

Cost: Free!

Scissors

+ The real connoisseur, according to insider sources, use scissors to finely chop their buds into pieces. With scissors, you get to thoroughly clean the bud, ridding it of sticks and stems, excess leaves and any other debris you may find. The scissors that work best have needle point blades and equal size finger holes.  The main reason connoisseurs like to use scissors is that they do not waste a flake of good bud while chopping. Buds will not be stuck in a grinder, or mashed into your finger, they will be where it counts, in your stash tin!

–  Not sure if there are any, except that eventually they will need cleaning. Unless you have a jar of oil, alcohol, or this new jar of cleaning solution, cleaning the resin off the scissors can get sticky.

Cost: around $15-20 online with free shipping

 

You may not believe this, but PRO420 is rooted in a family history of scissors.  Growing up talk around the dinner table was based on scissors: the quality of German implements over Italian implements, and the stories from business trips to factories far far away.  Although the sale of scissors fed our family, it wasn’t on the top of my list of interesting subjects.  Throughout the years my brothers, a sister, father, three uncles, cousins and a Grandfather all took part in one way or another in running the family business.  I opted out after a year in the factory and stuck to music and travel.
Fast forward many years and here we are, on the brink of a huge Marijuana revolution in this country. PRO420 Manicure Scissors are here to deliver a quality implement for the thousands of trimmer’s that go to work each day to trim Cannabis. My families expertise has helped guide me in bringing these scissors to market.  It’s incredible to have a team that has decades of experience already behind them in order to help shape ideas and construct the best business possible.It’s taken my dad out of retirement and back into the production room, tweaking the packaging and inspecting the finer details of every set of blades. With their help I sincerely hope that trimmer’s will have an easier time at work, and can benefit from all of the special features that are designed into our scissors.  Happy Clipping!

 

 

I was walking down the aisle in Lowe’s the other day and passed by the wall of garden shears.  After many nights of endless research on the different styles and brands of garden shears, I knew what I was looking at.  Here were pairs of scissors designed for a few uses each year. Every feature yelled out the word ‘cheap’, from the flimsy blades, the ugly safety clip, the bland and thin handles, I just knew that these were not the pair that professional trimmer’s should be buying.

Think about it, Granny’s nationwide buy the eye level brand because they are cheap, easy to see on the shelf and designed exactly for what they want to do, which is to prune their rosebush a few times a year. If you have a pile of buds to clip why are you using inferior blades?  It’s sort of like playing a beautiful classical piece of music on a Toys R’ Us keyboard.
PRO420 Scissors are the ideal choice for serious trimmers. They are incredibly comfortable to use, feel like quality, look like quality and have a handful of special design features that any trimmer will cherish. They are the first customized manicure scissors on the market today, brought to you just in time for the PRO420 movement that is sweeping the nation!

 

 

Let’s be honest, there are plenty of scissors in the marketplace today designed for gardeners. Multi-purpose snips for $10 are scattered in every shop in America. These scissors are mainly designed for infrequent use to prune garden flowers and shrubs. After a few snips, you break a sweat, go inside, slide the cheap pair of trimmer’s into a drawer, and they don’t see daylight for another 6 months.
Those avid gardeners who do actually rely on a quality pair of pruning shears are sorely disappointed with their purchases. Why? Because the scissors simply are not designed for everyday use. The spring falls out, or it rusts, the blades go dull, the handles get worn out, the list of complaints is endless. In fact, we have saved you a bit of time here and collected just a fraction of evidence from Amazon buyer’s feedback for one particular brand of garden scissors, and it is a sad read.

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

I ONLY USED Fiskar soft touch trimmers, pruners, loppers etc. because IMHO they HAD made the best. Most recently I had to replace two pairs of the Soft Touch Pruning Scissors that are approx 8+ years old and had ben sharpened professionally a few times over the years and were my favorite pair, so much so that over the next year or two of buying my first 2 I then purchased 12 more pairs for other gardeners in my family and for some friends. When I received the 2 new pairs I bought I was in shock, right away you can just feel how cheap they feel in comparison to the original model. The old model was made in the USA and Ill assume the new version is not since the imprint “Made in the USA” is no longer on the package/scissor blade. After the 2 full day of use the spring popped on the one pair and the same day while using the 2nd pair the plastic slide which locks the blades popped off as well!!

1.0 out of 5 stars Archilles Heel – the spring–, June 19, 2011

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

if you use these occasionally, fine – but we used in a small commercial greenhouse – they are *great* shears for light trimming…
HOWEVER BE FOREWARNED –
A) THE SPRING SUCKS – RUSTS IN A MATTER OF WEEKS IN A DAMP GREENHOUSE AND DROPS OFF
B) CUSTOMER SERVICE “LIMITED WARRANTY” IS A JOKE –
$10 for a couple months is waaaay outta line –
translation of “Limited Warranty” = Limited to the short lifespan of the lousy little super-fast rusting spring…

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheap junk, June 9, 2013

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

Bought these 2 months ago. Used them them twice; one of the scissors points came off on the 2nd use. Used for green plants only; not woody stems. A complete waste of $.

1.0 out of 5 stars broke after 1 season, August 31, 2013

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

I bought these pruning snips just a year ago and the metal blade snapped. I guess Fiskars now uses cheap “pot” metal in their products

1.0 out of 5 stars Spring falls, March 29, 2011

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

These only last a few times. The spring falls off then gets lost in the soil. Have bought so many that just fall apart

1.0 out of 5 stars Made in China or?, July 17, 2013

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

My wife has had the same pair for several years so I thought I would get one.Hers are made in USA this one is made some were else.Looks like they don’t even want to stamp were as they are probably outsourced to whoever will make them the cheapest and the cheapest they are. The locking mechanism broke of after about 10 cuts.Cheap plastic.I do love Amazon as they always so far have stood behind what they advertise or sell and a refund was provided.

1.0 out of 5 stars fiskars trimmer, August 11, 2011

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

The trimmer is sharp but the big down fall is that stupid orange clip. It constantly catches. and the blades would be nicer if they had a small curve to them

1.0 out of 5 stars Worked well until Blade Broke, so now Useless Junk, June 15, 2012

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

This pruning snip worked well for a few weeks of light use until one of the blades completely broke off from the base. At first I thought the blade somehow came loose, but on closer inspection the actual blade had snapped off around its base.

I wasn’t using it for anything else but cutting some thin plant stems, so maybe the quality of the blade just wasn’t good or was a defective item.

1.0 out of 5 stars the lock/unlock slide pinches hand, August 27, 2011

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

the lock/unlock slide, pinches hand between the slide lock and against the other handle (the lock slide stays attached to one side, sliding up and down, and it pinches skin against the other handle when using cutters whether the slide is in lock or unlock mode, it pinches in either position when cutting or pruning). they are not as sharp as other brands either. just not a commercial or ‘use on a regular basis’ type of product. the pinching will make you throw them in the garbage, the cutting is actually not too bad, but i only use these for emergency, when i can’t find my other pair.

1.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Had Imagined!, November 17, 2012

This review is from: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip (Lawn & Patio)

It is not sharp. I have a hard time clipping small branches. The worst part is that I have hurt myself, where my fingers have been caught in the closing area. On the other hand, it is hard to close. I would have preferred that it did not close, and just came in a protect cover. However, it has to close to fit in the protective cover. In hindsight, I should have purchased a heavier duty pruner.

Well, there you have it, from the fingertips of gardeners coast to coast.

PRO420 Manicure scissors are designed specifically for trimming Marijuana and other fine herbs. The specialized features will help every gardener accomplish the task at hand without a hitch. We sourced quality implements, customized them with special features, and deliver them to the evolving medical and legal marijuana industry worldwide.

Give them a try and let us know what you think. So far the reviews from our associates are through the roof positive. Right out of the package PRO420 scissors feel like quality implements, perform like quality implements should, and will surely be a talking point at any trim scene they show up in.

If you want to save a few bucks and buy a pair of garden snips designed for grannies and their rose bushes, be our guests. But we would much prefer that you treat yourself to the best garden shears available for the detailed work of manicuring Marijuana, go on, give PRO420 Professional Manicure Scissors a shot and you will never look back!