ASO

The ASO is a cutting scissor from the Art Collection II range, forged by the Togiya manufacture. Wide bamboo-leaf blade, camel & offset handle, adjustment screw.

This length is made for precision work: scissor-over-finger cutting, outlines, detail around the face, point cutting. It is the most common format in salons, and usually the right choice for a first Japanese pair.

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: 5″, 5″, 6″, 0″.

Forged in Inuyama

The Art Collection II 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.