You can buy very cheap Chinese one sided nippers. The blade being one sided gives you 75% of the performance. Sharpening the cutting edge gets you pretty damn close without paying the godhand premium. Its a bit of a hassle to get the edge geometry with the blade being so small and with the other end being in the way but not really hard to do. Personally, my preference is to buy the cheapest single sided nipper possible and just sharpen it regularly. It's not as good as a new godhand but compares favourably with a"broken in" one. IMHO the godhand's biggest advantages are also its biggest weaknesses. A more aggressive, thinner edge geometry makes it sharper but also means it wears out more quickly and is harder to maintain than a more obtuse one. A hard, high carbon contetpnt tool steel (it's 58 HRC) keeps the edge nice and hard, but also makes it harder to sharpen - which is a bummer given how difficult it is to sharpen nippers in the first place.
The only thing you should be wary of the Godhand is don’t drop it, because the thin blade is more prone to chipping. Nobody ever plan of dropping anything expensive but it will happen, so treat it like a baby and not an expensive smartphone.
Not gonna lie, I winced internally when the GodHand was used on the 3mm runner piece. It's a great finishing cutter for cleaning up gate nubs and when the gate is just too narrow or the part is too fine (some Little Armory, RG Gunpla or aircraft antennae come to mind), but I'd rather use a Tamiya sharp pointed (not the Alpha side cutter shown in the video) to make that first cut or for super thick gates.
Yes, this is also the way I do. The Godhand nipper is not suitable for the thick runners. So, I use a Tamiya nipper to do the first rough cut and finish the cut with a Godhand at last.
