Nikko

Nikko is a UK shear line out of Scissors Craft, the Northolt outfit in Middlesex that designs and sells it. The pitch is narrow and honest: precision cutting and trimming. This isn’t a brand built around bulk removal and heavy thinning so much as one aimed at the detail end of the craft, where you’re refining a shape rather than taking weight out fast.

Steel options

The interesting part is the material spread for a brand this size. The headline is the Damascus models, which are built around an ATS-314 cobalt core wrapped in patterned steel. The pattern is partly cosmetic, but the core is the working metal, and ATS-314 is a proven, edge-holding grade. The other lines run on a cobalt stainless alloy, which gives you the harder, longer-lasting edge without the Damascus price.

The catalog covers cutting scissors and a dedicated left-handed model, so southpaws aren’t left adapting a right-handed pair. Scissors Craft also points to ergonomic handles meant to ease hand fatigue over a long day, which fits a brand pitched at close, repetitive detail work. Pricing sits in the premium band, roughly $400 to $800.

Buying

Nikko is sold through the Scissors Craft store at scissorscraft.co.uk, and it doesn’t appear to run a separate site of its own, so the parent shop is the authoritative source for current models and specs. For overseas buyers that means ordering from a UK shop and factoring in international shipping. Other British makers are gathered on the UK hub.