AMW

The AMW is a thinning shear from the Art Collection I range, forged by the Togiya manufacture. 10-tooth thinning scissors, special offset handle, adjustment screw.

A thinning shear does not replace a cutting pair — it completes it. Work on dry hair, at the end of the cut, to remove weight without touching the line. Used on wet hair, the dry result will always be thinner than intended.

Its 10 wide, spaced teeth remove decisively: this shear is made to thin thick masses and create pronounced texture. Every closing shows — for confident hands only.

The blade

The blade is ground and then hand-sharpened in Inuyama, following Togiya's own geometry: a consistent edge along the full length, checked piece by piece before dispatch.

In the hand

The offset handle increases the thumb displacement: the hand works more open and the forearm relaxes. This is the geometry to recommend to anyone cutting for hours or feeling wrist tension. The adjustment screw fine-tunes tension precisely — the control that separates a pair that slices from a pair that folds the hair.

This model is set up for right-handed users. Available sizes: 6″, 0″.

Forged in Inuyama

The Art Collection I range comes out of the Togiya manufacture, which controls its whole chain: steel selection, forging, hardening, grinding, then hand sharpening and assembly. That end-to-end control explains the value of Togiya's “Made in Japan”.

Care and lifespan

Wipe the blades at the end of each day, add a drop of oil on the screw and edge, store the pair in its case. Once a year, hand it to a sharpener trained on Japanese blades — never to a standard grinding wheel, which would destroy the convex geometry in a single pass.