Mizutani Acro Stephen Moody Black

This Special Mizutani scissor was developed by Stephen Moody and Mizutani.A masterpiece scissor shows the fine attention to detail of this artist and educator.The scissor has the highest standards for handle design, materials, and craftmanship.

Nano Power Metal
Sand Blast Non-Slip Finish
Black Titanium Finish

Edge: Convex Edge

Handel Type : Offset

Made In: Japan

Size(s): 5.5,6.0

Vendor: Mizutani

Titanium Finish: Black Titanium Finish

Stephen Moody

Since leaving his position as the International Executive Director of Vidal Sassoon Education in 2003, took his current position as the Director of Coty Professional Wella & OPI, and Global Education Academy Dean. Stephen’s skills have achieved international renown, and are backed by a peerless record of experience and achievements. His current position is also proof of his stature in the field. “The starting point of cutting hair, or improving your haircutting skills, is precise handling and mastery of your scissors.

The scissors which was derived from the acquired experience.

The HARD BLACK -Stephen Moody Model-, highly praised from hairdressers all over the world, launched first overseas in 2017. This product was jointly developed with Stephen Moody the real hairstyling artist and educator, and MIZUTANI. The handles design for his high quality precise haircut, and these thin blade are made with world-renowned Nano Powder Metal. The scissors has the highest and most particular standards for everything from the handle design, to the materials, to the fitting of the blade. Anything unnecessary has been carefully pruned away, bringing to life only what is needed. As someone who has held many types of scissors in his hands over a lifetime of working as a stylist, and who only wants to use truly good tools, he says that “the more I carefully selected them, the more I loved them.” His favorite Mat Black Titanium-Coated Finish is really cool and also is considered as well as Non-Slip Finish.

: Nano Powder Metal
Our Nano Powder Metal®, made with the new HIP manufacturing method (Hot Isostatic Pressing), is steel fabricated from a fine powder at the Nano level. The uniform-grained powder is hardened with high temperature and pressure tempering, essentially eliminating all filler and impurities, and this method is used in precision manufacturing items like Blu-ray disc molds, where high levels of purity are required. At MIZUTANI, in order to create the ideal hair-cutting scissors, we have conducted our own proprietary research with this material, and created scissors with blades that combine strength with a long cutting life and the ultimate sharpness.

: RESIN BEARING
These bearings are made by shaving each of them one by one, using a resin material with excellent mechanical properties. Their smoothness and flexibility makes for an ideal cutting experience, and protects the scissors and screws from wear and tear. Our bearings are gentle to both our scissors and their users.

: SCREW DRIVER
This MIZUTANI’s original pencil type screw driver is exclusively designed for our UFO screws to set the tension properly. This driver is included with the scissors whichever marked accordingly. SCREW DRIVER is registered of Mizutani Scissors.

FAQ's

Which shears are best for me?

Which steel sheer quality is better, those made in Japan, Korea, or Germany?

Japan has the highest standards for workmanship and quality with steels in hair cutting shears.

Many shears made in Korea which can save some costs on labor, and still maintain good quality.

Use steels from Japan. Look for Japanese Steel.

What metals are used in my scissor?

YIron, Carbon, Nickel, and various other alloys like cobalt, and manganese. When using stainless Steel Chromium is added to make steel Stainless, and prevent rust. Handles are welding to the blades and not constructed using the same quality steels. This is not necessary and would add to the cost.

What are the different categories of stainless steel used to produce hair cutting scissors?

Steels are important to a point in a scissor, and when combined with high-quality machining and design you have a beautiful cutting shear ready to provide excellent performance for many years or career depending on the quality of service the shear receives.

You should never purchase a scissor with a stainless steel rating of less than 440C. This is an industry-standard for stainless steel in hair cutting shears. There are a few entry-level shears made using 410, and 420.

Cobalt Alloy Steel is abrasion resistant and will give increased blade retention, and a longer last edge. These shears can also be machined to a finer edge and have the steel hold the edge the result of adding Cobalt Alloy.

They often cost more due to the increased labor costs of finishing and polishing and extra abrasives used in the finishing process.

Cobalt does have some categories and some companies use there own. They include Cobalt Alloy, ATS-314, V-1, V-10 and now they are using a powered Sintered Cobalt Alloy that is expensive but has excellent performance, and with the use of the sintered powered steel process has great quality control when producing it.

Is there a scissor that never needs to be sharpened?

This is fiction, and simply not true. There are high-quality steels that can hold an edge longer than others with the use of Cobalt Alloys but the longest we can see a shear used everyday cutting hair to last is about 18-24 months and most need to be serviced in about 12 months.

This depends some on the use of the shear how many cuts per day.

The wear resistance when cutting strands of hair is the same as cutting equal diameter strands of copper..! Hair is Keratinized Protein, soft and pliable with strong resistance to cutting.