Wire-stripping and crimping pliers twist a stranded cable end with bars projecting into a pliers mouth at free ends of pliers jaws and crimp a cable end region with a ferrule using a ram guided in a cassette in a pliers legs crossing region and running into a die due to a closing force upon pressing the legs together, to compress the ferrule in the die. First and second moldings on the jaws project into the mouth. A forced lock has a pawl and a toothed segment on the moldings preventing the pliers from opening without the ram previously running against the ferrule. The toothed segment on the first molding has a course corresponding to a movement curve of the jaws. The pawl on the second molding is movable by a spring but fixed in position. The first and/or second molding is formed in one piece with the bars.

A multifunctional center parting cable stripper relating to the field of cable strippers is provided and includes a clamp body, a spring, a hollow rivet part, a pressing part, a cutting part, a stripping part, and a clamping part. The clamp body includes an upper clamp body and a lower clamp body, and the upper clamp body and the lower clamp body define hexagonal bolt holes individually. The spring is disposed between the upper clamp body and the lower clamp body, and the hollow rivet part configured to fix the upper clamp body and the lower clamp body is disposed on shaft-receiving parts of the upper clamp body and the lower clamp body. The pressing part, the cutting part, the stripping part, and the clamping part are disposed on the clamp body. The upper clamp body defines cable-twisting-winding holes.

A wire stripper includes a first handle, a second handle pivotally connected to the first handle, a first cutter disposed on the first handle, and a protective cover movably connected to the first handle. The first cutter moves to a cutting platform of the second handle or away from the cutting platform as the first handle and the second handle pivotally rotate with respect to each other. The protective cover covers at least a portion of the first cutter. When the first cutter moves to the cutting platform to cut a cable, the protective cover is adapted to be pushed by the cable and move with respect to the first handle to expose a portion of the first cutter for cutting the cable.

A cable stripping fixture includes a depth gauge block having a first plurality of cable openings formed therein. Each of the first plurality of cable openings is sized to receive at least a portion of a first type of cable. A guide plate is fixed to the depth gauge block and includes a second plurality of cable openings formed therethrough. Each of the second cable openings is coaxially aligned with one of the first plurality of cable openings. A blade holder of the fixture is connected to one of the depth gauge block or the guide plate, and is movable between a cutting position and a cable insertion position. A blade is fixed to the blade holder for engaging with a cable inserted into the depth gauge block and the guide plate.

Various embodiments of a combination hand tool such as a wire stripper are provided. The wire stripper includes first jaw portion and a second jaw portion having a plurality of stripper apertures. In a specific embodiment, the first jaw and second jaw have a spring constant between 450 N/mm and 550 N/mm, measured when a force is applied in a direction parallel to the pivot axis to an associated jaw tip with a pivot member being held. In various embodiments the first jaw and/or the second jaw have a cutting recess. In such embodiments, the first and second jaws have a first hardness and the cutting recess has a second hardness that is greater than the first hardness.