How Scissors Are Made

Popular Mechanics shares a look at how scissors are made from scrap metal. The city of Meerut, India employs almost 70,000 people in the 350-year-old scissor-making industry. Generations have practiced the craft, creating sixteen varieties of hand-held tools for cutting paper, cloth, wires, and more. Each pair of scissors goes through up to fourteen stages and is worked on by twenty-two different sets of hands to deliver a cutting experience that has defined Meerut for generations.