Today’s composite materials are amazing, making many things we touch lighter, cheaper, and often stronger than wood/steel. However, you occasionally bump up against the product designed “just strong enough” in the engineer’s mind, but in fact a failure in real world application. These pruners are a perfect example. Nice light and relatively cheap… but put a tiny bit of muscle into them and they’re headed for the garbage bin. On the other hand, I have 30 year old steel pruner inherited from my father that would take a tank to bend/break.
