The Channellock 148-10 is a 10-inch end cutting nipper — the full-size tool for flush-cutting nails, wire, and rebar ties where the 7-inch 357 runs out of leverage. The working edges sit at the jaw tip, cutting flush to the work surface instead of leaving the proud tail that a diagonal plier leaves behind.
It’s sized for framers pulling bent nails, fence builders trimming wire, concrete workers cutting rebar ties, and anyone whose job calls for a real two-handed cut on fasteners that defeat smaller nippers. The longer handles multiply hand force across the pivot, and the forged steel body holds up to the kind of abuse that cracks cast-construction nippers.
Channellock has been forging pliers in Meadville, Pennsylvania since 1886 — the same small American factory, now five generations into the same family. The company is known for the blue-handled tongue-and-groove pliers that defined the category, and every tool in the core line is made in the USA from forged high-carbon American steel.
