If you mean avaiation shears, don't do it. they're like scissors. it has the strength to cut it but the scissoring action will cut the strands unevenly. Any good wire cutter will do the job fine, Read that Good! The cable wire is hard and not all cutters are hard enough to hold an edge on any wire harder than copper for which most of them are made. A good one will work on the cable as well as the housing. then just hold the end lightly to a grinding wheel to true up the end.