Good Tools are essential when Beading and we have stocked several brands over the years, our cutters are made by Xuron corporation in the USA and are the Rolls Royce of Cutters,they have a patented cutting system called Micro Shear,Conventional wire cutters utilize a compression-type cut, with the advancing cutting edges forcing the metal of the wire out of their way.Micro-Shear® flush cutters utilize a shearing cut, with the by-pass cutting edges slicing cleanly through the metal leaviving a clean sqare cut with no spikes.