The facom 19216cpe high performance diagonal cutters comprise cutting edges designed to cleanly cut all types of wire piano wire soft wire and modern materials the model has a long lever arm with an offset pivot for minimum cutting effort these side cutting pliers are crafted from high durability chrome molybdenum vanadium steel with very hard cutting edges 6163 hrc performance conform to iso 5749 din iso 5749 and nf iso 5749