Japanese
Bonsai Scissors

Standard pruning scissors can handle small to medium twigging, These scissors are used for top pruning growth. They have a medium sized blade that can handle slightly thicker growth then the other types of scissors which makes them a good choice for your first set of scissors for pruning. They have a good handle size and the thicker shaft helps with the thicker twigging. If you need to remove branches consider branch cutters as cutting branches with scissors can result in damage no matter how high quality the scissors are.

Root scissors do exactly what the name eludes to, They cut roots. These scissors have the thickest blades out of all the scissors, this has 2 advantages. 1. they are tougher which helps when coming up against aggregates in the soil and 2. Cutting through soil will make even the best steel go dull much quicker, having the extra meat on the blades allows you to sharpen your root scissors more often without losing too much material off the blades.

These scissors are designed to prune is dense areas of your trees, Highly refined tree have a large network of fine branches that need pruning, Having a set of scissors with narrow blades and slender handles helps get into these dense branches and do your pruning without accidentally bumping and breaking of refinement. The narrower blades can only handle fine twigging but on a highly refined tree that's all the should be present for pruning. These scissors are also fantastic for de-candling pines and they easily manoeuvre between the needles.

Bud Shears are the smallest of all the scissors used in bonsai, the very fine and narrow blades allow you to get into very tight spots and remove un wanted buds before they grow and take energy from the tree. These scissors can also be used as general pruning shears for shohin material as long as the branching is fine.