Weighing less than 790g 1 lbs these high tech shears feel like featherweights which is all the more remarkable because they have long 655cm 26 handles that give you significant extra reachmade from cast aluminium with stainless steel blades the shears are so sharp they cut paper as cleanly as scissorswhich means in the garden they make light work of grass hedges and shrubs slicing through stems up to 125mm thicknon slip handle grips