We snipped more than 500 thick, 1.6mm brake cables with one of these, and the last ones were cut as cleanly as the first. The shop snob’s favorite brand is the red-handled, Swiss-made Felco.  These, from your trusted blood-brothers at Hobson-Zingo, seem every bit as good, have no plastic, and cost  1/5^th as much. It doesn’t take a math whiz or a PhD in economix to see the logic in the Hobson-Zingo.