A good armamentarium is basic to a practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Various instruments and equipment are being improvised on a continuous basis to curtail various inherent problems and disadvantages of these instruments. The wire cutter is one such instrument, which is used in day-to-day oral surgical practice and is not free of disadvantage like blunting of sharp edges as a result of repeated usage and sterilization process. In this article, we discuss about a commonly used basic instrument (nail cutter) which can be efficiently used as a wire cutter.