Bosch Professional 12V System GUS 12V-300 cordless universal shear (excluding batteries and charger)

Works well on the advertised materials but quite limited otherwise. On the more difficult materials its best to have second pair of hands to stretch/hold the material.

What a godsend. Neither scissors nor 'stanley' knife would make a decent job of cutting artificial turf with its thick rubber base. This wonderful tool (my third battery powered Bosch tool) made the job easy and accurate.

I bought this for a potentially strange sounding reason - to cut up large cardboard boxes (most of them from Amazon). It was an absolute luxury buy from that perspective and unfortunately it doesn't fully work for the purpose I intended. When looked at more logically, for cutting carpet, matting, vinyl etc - it performs much better.Its a big unit too - much bigger than the picture implies. If you already own a 10.8V unit (which you would need to as this is body only), look at the pictures and compare the battery area with the full body length - it's chunky.It has a jaw that opens widely and can either be fixed or a little loose. The blade is hexagonal and stays sharp through a clever sharpening system. the guard is very effective at protecting fingers etc.For the purpose I wanted - cutting cardboard - it sometimes works, slicing through like butter - but it often gets stuck on the frame - so the blade isn't actually in contact and requires manhandling to start recutting - and it's for this reason I mark it down a star.If youre actually using it for work and cutting matting, flooring etc (which I have tried) it works well and is recommended.

This has to be one of the worst Bosch tools I have had the misfortune to buy. I got it to replace a Xeo which finally after good service and many recharges, gave up the ghost and would not recharge. As soon as I took this brick out of the box I should have realised there was something wrong - it is extremely heavy and unwieldy. I wanted to use it to cut up a large cardboard box. It took me ages to do this and the tool kept on sticking. It was as if there was a setting with the cutter which was wrong but I cant see there is any way to change them. Not pleased at all, especially since, confident in my previous Bosch tools performances, I had bought a new battery an charger. I will probably keep the last two but return this brick.

Fine

The first thing that struck me when I got this was how much bigger and heavier it was than it looked in the pictures. On the plus side the construction is excellent as you would expect from Bosch. I bought this for cutting Gravoply engraving material (rigid plastic sheets 1.5 -2.5mm thick) which I realise it is not designed for, but I hoped it would work, and it does brilliantly!. I have tried it on thick cardboard and thick felt and it cuts those very well, it takes a while to get the hang of cutting in a straight line but it is possible with practise. I haven't tried carpet yet because I don't have any, but i'm sure it will cut it easily. It's a pretty niche tool, but if you have a regular need to cut flexible material i can recommend this.

I purchased this shearer to use on cutting 2mm PVC sheets on a project.I found that if trying to cut within 2mm of the edge of the sheet, it was ok, as you could pull the cut section away. However, when trying to cut further away from the edge, the tool just bound up on the material.i ended up using my jig saw to complete the task.

Couldn’t cut hardly anything (not even carpet tiles)!