To provide a manual cutting tool easily separating the cutting tool body from a handle.

Each scissor piece 12 of scissors 11 has such structure that a blade body 13 and a handle 14 are connected via a lock member 18. The lock member 18 is integrally formed with the handle 14 and detachably engaged with a notch 16 formed in the handle 14. the base of the blade body 13 is engaged with the engagement groove 17 of the handle 14, the lock member 18 is engaged with the notch 16, and an engagement projection 21 of the lock member 18 is engaged with an engagement hole 20 in the blade body 13 so that the blade body 13 and the handle 14 are connected. When separating the blade body 13 from the handle 14, the handle 14 and the lock member 18 are disengaged by separating the lock member 18 from the handle 14.