• Its ability to make straight-line cuts on flat sheet stock
• Metal placement between upper and lower shear blades
• Its trademark production of burred and slightly deformed metal edges
• Its ability to cut relatively small lengths of material at any time since the shearing blades can be mounted at an angle to reduce the necessary shearing force required.

Typically, the upper shear blade is mounted at an angle to the lower blade, usually mounted horizontally. The shearing process performs only fundamental straight-line cutting, but we can generally cut any geometrical shape with a straight cut produced on a shear.

Metal shearing can be performed on the sheet, strip, bar, plate, and even angle stock. Bar and angle materials can only be cut to length. However, many shapes can be produced by shearing sheets and plates.

Shearing is best used on material no thicker than 3/8” plate and no longer than 120.”