These bahco aviation compound snips are designed for occasional use by craftsmen and at home they are forged from steel containing chromium and molybdenum for good resistance with cutting edges milled serrated and hardened to 60 62 hrc they are fitted with soft grip handles and a return spring for comfortable use the handles are colour coded depending on the type of cut they provide red handle left cut green handle right cut yellow blue handle straight cut specification cutting capacity stainles