How Scissors Are Made From Scrap Metal

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The 350-year-old scissor-making industry in the city of Meerut, India employs nearly 70,000 people.
Welcome to the northwestern corner of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, a bustling metropolis of 1.5 million people. This is the city of scissors.
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Unlike the orange-handled, machine-made scissors you’ll find in craft stores the world over, Meerut scissors are molded, hammered, welded, grinded, and polished by hand from recycled materials. These craftspeople, many of whom have several generations of family members who’ve practiced the craft, create hand-held tools for cutting paper, cloth, wires, and more with some 16 varieties in total. Each pair of scissors goes through about 14 different stages and is passed among 22 different sets of hands to deliver a cutting experience that’s defined Meerut for generations.
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How Scissors Are Made From Scrap Metal

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  • @ImOnAJourney
    @ImOnAJourney4 ай бұрын

    To first world countries, this all looks like a miserable job in miserable working conditions. To them, it’s how they feed a house full of people.

  • @BobbyTucker
    @BobbyTucker4 ай бұрын

    The skills used here are fantastic! I would buy these scissors in an instant, they appear to be very high quality. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.

  • @arcomarco7131
    @arcomarco71313 ай бұрын

    This people are.... interesting... I read their article "The Science of a Boxing Knockout" where their writer apparentely not educated in field of neurology and physics said: "Each punch creates a concussion (technically defined as any head injury that causes a disruption of neurological function), and each concussion brings the boxer closer to a state of darkness." this is so true as saying 2+2=10... at least this is how I see the knowledge of the author

  • @bigtexbbq6347
    @bigtexbbq63474 ай бұрын

    Do these scissors make it to the USA?

  • @22144ndt
    @22144ndt4 ай бұрын

    How much are those little suckers?

  • @Karmakarlouhasilpo
    @KarmakarlouhasilpoАй бұрын

    Sir can you get the contact number of this factory?

  • @Jacobofski
    @Jacobofski4 ай бұрын

    Very unsafe working conditions according to western safety standards!

  • @penguinpie5056
    @penguinpie50563 ай бұрын

    This is messed up this is coming from popular mechanics. Did a soulless mega publisher buy them or what? Like this is literally sweatshop stuff.

  • @abc121xyz
    @abc121xyz4 ай бұрын

    is this a video about lack of working condition awareness?, c´mon Popular Mechanics.... promoting this is normalizing something that should not be

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