Wool shears

A shearing handpiece comprising an elongated casing, a drive fork extending throughout the casing, a comb supported upon a forward end of the casing, means for a rear end portion of the drive fork to receive driving power, a cutter held against the comb by a forward end portion of the drive fork, said drive fork causing said cutter to reciprocate across the face of said comb, an intermediate pivot for the fork supported by the casing, an upwardly extending hollow extension on said casing, a frame of inverted Y-shape having an upwardly extending support leg and a pair of downwardly diverging arms at least partly spanning and bearing downwardly upon the forward end portion of the fork and integrally depending from said support leg such that said support leg and said arms form a rigid inflexible member, said support leg extending upwardly into said hollow extension, and adjustment means threadedly engaged on an upper end of said hollow extension and abutting the upper end of said support leg to impose a closing force between the cutter and the comb through said Y-shaped frame.