Scissor sharpening?

[Larry Edgerton]

How do you sharpen scissors? My wife knows what a fanatic I am about sharpening, and has the sharpest kitchen knives a woman could ask for [or not ask for] but has called me out on her outragiously dull scissors.

Help a guy out here! Whats the trick to sharp scissors and a happy home.:)

I have a Makita wheel, and hand stones, but I really do not know the rules of sharpening scissors, you know angles and all that jazz, so forth and so on..

Set me up gentlemen, and thank you very much!

[Mikail Khan]

$7.50 dollar solution - Accusharp (http://www.amazon.com/AccuSharp-Shear-Sharp-Scissor-Sharpener/dp/B0001WOVFC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1235606171&sr=8-3)

$600 solution -Tormek (http://www.amazon.com/TORMEK-SVX-150-Scissors-Jig/dp/B0000223ZE)

Amazon has a few jigs for under $10 (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_hi?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=scissors+sharpener&x=12&y=12). The accusharp works well.

MK

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Easy Peasy~!!

The edge you work is that itty bitty angled edge don't lay blade flat and mess with that. in any decent scissor that'll be a true hollow grind and you'll wreck the scissors if you flatten it

Lay the edge against you stone. Wobble it a little. Feel when it's sitting flat?

OK that's the Angle~!!
Stroke that holding the angle ad true as you can.
Takes you about 2 minutes per blade (or less) unless there's nicks and you are crazy to get 'em out.

The actual angle is really pretty unimportant it's just gotta be some angle not too steep not too flat. It hardly matters if you wobble and produce a wobbly angle.

[Larry Edgerton]

Easy Peasy~!!

The edge you work is that itty bitty angled edge don't lay blade flat and mess with that. in any decent scissor that'll be a true hollow grind and you'll wreck the scissors if you flatten it

Lay the edge against you stone. Wobble it a little. Feel when it's sitting flat?

OK that's the Angle~!!
Stroke that holding the angle ad true as you can.
Takes you about 2 minutes per blade (or less) unless there's nicks and you are crazy to get 'em out.

The actual angle is really pretty unimportant it's just gotta be some angle not too steep not too flat. It hardly matters if you wobble and produce a wobbly angle.

Thank you sir! My wife has a blond hairdresser friend [I know, I know] that sends hers out and made it sound like such a mystery.

I'll try it! and if I fail and they are all screwed up I will buy her new ones and show her your post! http://www.sawmillcreek.org/images/icons/icon12.gif

[michael osadchuk]

....adding to cliff's statement that you sharpen the bevel.....Clarence Lee in his sharpening book says, after advising sending professional grade scissors and shears out to sharpening pros, suggests a pass on a 120 grit belt sander, bevel edge running into the belt and taking off any burr with a light honing pass of the flat of the blade on a 1000 grit or finer stone....

good luck

michael

[Marc Schmitz]

I have read that cutting aluminum foil will sharpen scissors, never verified or even tried it, interested in any comments about it.



Help a guy out here! Whats the trick to sharp scissors and a happy home.:)

[Craig McCormick]

Thank you sir! My wife has a blond hairdresser friend [I know, I know] that sends hers out and made it sound like such a mystery.

I'll try it! and if I fail and they are all screwed up I will buy her new ones and show her your post! http://www.sawmillcreek.org/images/icons/icon12.gif

Hair cutting shears have to be sharpened a special way. I think its about a 6 step process. They can only be sharpened about six times and then must be replaced. If you sharpen them wrong they will not last through six sharpening's. The average price for a new pair of hair cutting shears is about $200.

I sharpen our home scissors with my tormek.

AZCRAIG

[John Lohmann]

Try cutting sandpaper if they aren't too dull.