For stainless + classic + hand made + true German, “GS Stancanelli” is the marque to beat now coming from Solingen.  I hate to say this, but just like Wacker Rasiermesser, you know they’re good if they behave as so with regard to anything but the work bench.  But damn, that work bench.  Not many know, but if you do.

This “Basic” model is as classically styled a Solingen scissor as you can have, with one honed edge and one micro-serrated edge, flat blades hollowed on their internal surfaces, and a 45° native German bevel cutting angle.  This is a great scissor for self beard/mustache grooming, or for those with smaller hands making a living hairdressing.

Solingen 1.4034 stainless steel, hardened to 56 HRC.  Hollow ground inner blade planes.   Rubber bumper.  Rubber ring liners.  Removeable stainless steel finger rest.   Weighs just twenty-eight grams.

Ground, sharpened, assembled and tested all entirely by hand in Solingen, Germany.

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You don’t know them here, but in the ever-declining field of *truly* hand made scissors from Germany, we have searched far and wide and believe these “GS Stancanelli” scissors are the finest made today in that category, at least for stainless steel shears.

They are the brand equivalent as Lexus is to Toyota, or Infiniti it for Nissan, for the people that produce NTS-Solingen scissors (which are also excellent quality).  It is the finest subtleties apparent on the Stancanellis that shows these old and experienced hands that if you value seeing the hand of man in the works of man, it is abundantly clear that extremely skilled grinders make these scissors in all aspects with handiwork, from sharpening their cutting edges one by one to putting them together with their fancy tool and playing with the screw tension until it is just the way they’d deign.  They are both precise and hand made looking at once.

It is not a big place and as far as I can tell, there are precisely two other Solingen-forged-and-ground places with some very nice and truly hand made scissors to choose – but they’re both so old school that almost all their coolest models do not come in stainless steel, and they have no intention of ever making them in stainless steel.  In those producers’ heads, for that particular model/design, it is carbon or go fly a kite – they see a stainless steel sibling as a bridge too far, like the French did with suggestions to filter their brandy when the Scots invented chill filtering to please the Yanks buying their whisky to pair with ice without it clouding on them.

Here in the USA, selling a carbon steel any tool is a hard sell even to a fellow human in Nevada – fellow humans in NV, you *really* don’t have to worry about carbon-vs-stainless where you live,…worry about the rubber on your binoculars,  your car trim, the bumper between finger rings on some scissors, the finger rings themselves on some scissors,…

I imagine at some point we’d like to have those other two outfits’ stuff, too, and likely we will if these insane tariffs (which DID hit this box) calm.  But it’ll always be a small potatoes account(s), because of the limited stainless selection.  Beyond those two, really in Solingen scissors now it is either extremely computer-controlled design at the highest possible tech 100% German offerings such as Jaguar, or brands that don’t really make them by hand and/or don’t make them  in Solingen.