I work for a flower shop no fresh flowers just silks. I purchased this cutter because sometimes our customers need for us to cut part of a floral stem off. I discovered this stem cutter is for light stems and we also carry thick stemmed floral that it does not work on. I think I probably need bolt cutters. Some of our flower bushes have 8 stems in one stem maybe more so its pretty thick and this cutter is I thick for light duty. I will keep it but wished it would have worked for our thick stems