This is the Klein K12035 — a heavy-duty wire stripper and cutter with precision-ground stripping holes sized for 10-18 AWG solid and 12-20 AWG stranded. The stripping holes are drilled rather than stamped, so they cut the insulation cleanly without nicking the conductor — the nick is what breaks a wire later at the termination.
It’s the strip-and-cut tool that lives in an electrician’s pouch for daily service work: stripping feeders, cutting romex, shortening stranded hookup wire at a panel. The cushion-grip handles keep the tool comfortable through repeated cycles, and the shear-style cut handles stranded and solid without fraying.
Klein Tools has been making hand tools for electricians and tradespeople since 1857, headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. The Journeyman and Standard pliers lines — along with many of Klein’s cushion-grip screwdrivers — are forged and finished in the United States, and clearly marked as such, so you know exactly what you’re buying.
