OARA Garden Hedge Shears: Trim Borders, Boxwood, and Bushes with Non-Stick Coated Blades

chris: Bought these so I could do "chop and drop" in my veggie garden. Sharp. Cut larger pieces than I expect. Well made.

United States on Oct 24, 2023

Customer: Great product.

United States on Sep 20, 2023

Manuel: excellent product

United States on Sep 20, 2023

Amazon Customer: These work really well on some really thick over grown lavender bushes. Cleaned two giant nasty looking things up in no time. They started to struggle on the thicker dead branches lower down, about 3/8” thick l, but they didn’t bend or break when I was puttin the hurt on em. The thicker stuff was easily reached with some little loppers after I clear the crazy stuff off with these scissors anyway. I just wanted to see how much beating these things could take. They’re perfectly fine after three days of hard chomping. However, I tried them on some super thin wispy Mexican grass and the strands of grass just slid between the blades without really cutting. I sprayed wd40 on the blades so maybe that’s why. Regular old “house scissors” worked fine for the grass anyway. These were probably just over kill for the little stuff.

United States on Jul 24, 2023

boolybooly: I am sorry to say these shears do not cut fine stems at the tip of the blades, the last 2-3 inches are not cutting grass, no matter the tension on the bolt.

I wanted something to cut meadow grass around other plants and while these are light and maneuverable and the bolt stays tightened due to the self locking nut, the blades are not correctly engineered to produce a clean cut right to the end. Fine stalks are not cut and instead bend and jam between the blades pushing them apart.

The blades are sharp. they are just not held together firmly enough and are too flexible to perform at the tips where leverage makes the flexing more pronounced. Thicker stems may cut better at the tips but fine stems do not cut at all well.

It may be possible for the manufacturer to improve them with a reinforcement of some kind to make the blades more rigid e.g. either thicker steel (which would make them heavier and more expensive to make) or an additional strip welded to the outside of the blades (likewise) or maybe a stamped indentation along the blade behind the cutting edge to make it more rigid.

I hope they can improve them as they are light and easy to use and would...

United Kingdom on Jun 28, 2022

Frédéric Moreau: Vraiment très bonne cisaille mais juste un peu lourd sinon ils sont parfaits

Canada on Jun 25, 2022

Darren wright: Sharp and cuts great

Canada on Jul 28, 2021

William Blinn: Great product would recommend.

Canada on Jul 02, 2021

Stephen ThroopStephen Throop: Before barbed wire, thick, tough hedges were grown to fence cattle. I have one like that, and it’s 1,000 square feet to trim. An electric trimmer will leave the hedge a little taller each time. Eventually it would need a major cutback with shears and pruners.

On that hedge, shears were tiring, and the bumping was hard on my wrists. Both my shears, of two brands, weren’t made to be taken apart. Sharpening was a hassle. They were somewhat blunt when sharpened because the bevel at the edge was about 60 degrees. Shears are often made that way to resist damage.

I ordered OARA’s because the blades are 65MN steel. Kershaw switched to that steel for its high-priced Camp 10 and Camp 14 knives. Owners familiar with expensive knives praise the sharpness and durability of the edges.

Camellias should be pruned only once a year, so it entails cutting back a year’s growth. When the OARA’s arrived, my two camellia’s were ready.

Unlike other shears, the OARA’s have no serrations and no notch near the hinge. The edges are sharp enough to bite wood before it can slide away. Near the hinge, they will cut wood 1/2” in diameter. They will cut 1/4” stuff out...

United States on May 05, 2021

Beryl Fairchild: not too heavy to use

Canada on Oct 01, 2020