For peeling off bark on a branch to create a jin. Good for gripping the wire, because of their teeth.
You can peel up the bark a little bit and grip onto them with the jin pliers and then roll it. If they're doing guy wire or if they're tying a tree down into a pot, when they twist the wire they will put the jin pliers on it and twist the wire nice and tight.
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