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Big fan of the chikamasa straight blade. Almost 4 years old and still crazy sharp. I've definitely cut myself pretty good with them
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I use these and also the angled version with the dark handle. Love um and no springs. Clean with alcohol and a sharp blade to get the scissor hash.

JP1-- That's looking about 15%THC to me....
F' yes they are sharp, like you can shave arm hairs off sharp! And my first pair did bleed me some when my snipping got careless LOL
The steel quality and tempering are tops for sure, my original pair is now a beater but still has enough sharpness the handle branch snipping...

Mason, the blue handled one you showed got me looking into that model, never saw them before. Those a really canna-specialized which sort of surprised me as the Japanese are very anti-pot, but the $$ talked louder!

It was fun trying out the curved and fine-trim models - Everybody has their MO for this, and I did try the same cut pattern with the different models to explore the +/-'s of each for that pattern.
Curved ones are heavier bladed and can handle some pretty heavy chops if you use the back of the blade. For bud that's tight, not so much sugar leaf, the curve contours very nicely whether you trim parallel or perpendicular to the long axis of a bud; makes short work of it and I found better than the fine or straight blades for this MO...

The fine blade angled blue handled ones are great for more leafy bud that you have to kinda weave in between budlets, trimming perpendicularly; they don't beat up the surrounding trich's as much, leafy bits stick less because the surface area of the blades is much smaller...
Same deal for when you're after those smaller mini-fans, blades tuck right down into the stem for a clean snip...
Any finish trimming, wet or dry, these are tops for that! ...they are not good for heavier cutting as you'd expect.

I love the handle design too; the closed loop lets me hang a pair off a finger if I need to grab something, less pick-up/put down... Excellent ergonomics allows you to hold and position the blades different ways as well...

I know some folks love the spring action types that offer "power assist", helps with hand fatigue... I found I didn't miss this. All Chika's are made with high tolerance spec's it seems, effortless open/close and the coating helps even more when they get resin covered... the rivet design and their factory tuning really bring it all together-
I know, I sound like an advertiser-

Yeah, I think my light blasting later in flower caused the big girl, in a little bit to some extent the smaller ones,, to foxtail quite a bit. I really don't think so in veg.

yeah on the foxing, can magnify that tendency a lot but then some do this naturally so sometimes it's hard to tell! Same guy had another cross that grew dreadlock buds, looked cool and trippy as heck...
I think in veg it can force ridiculous bushing-out...
I'm thinking true equatorial types have a lower DLI max than "Indica" higher Lat. types that have longer days...

Eh, so much for generalizations, as so much depends on other factors, what's cause and effect can be anything but clear!

... time to take down the tent, BBL....