How To Sharpen Scissors Like A Pro
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How to sharpen scissors or shears for the shop. Today we are looking at sharpening scissors for use in the shop or anywhere you need truly sharp scissors. weather you need scissors for paper, crafts or good old fabric scissors learning how to sharpen scissors can prolong the life of the scissors and allow them to work as good or better than new. weather you have the latest Fiskars scissors or a 100-year-old pair of shears, you can make them work like new once you sharpen them.
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Thank you so much for making this video! As a seamstress I really struggle with keeping my scissors sharp. I’m excited to finally be able to sharpen my own scissors and keep them as sharp as I like.
Hello- seamstress here too, have you found this to work well for your fabric shears? Do you use the paper cutting test on them, or do you check with fabric?
I loved watching this video. My parents owned a kitchen cutlery and sportsmans knife store for many years in downtown Oakland. Ca. Dad sharpened every imaginable tool but had a special fondness for sharpening scissors. Watching you today reminded me of his meticulous methods. And your workshop looks so much like his, it almost hurts. This was a great video and I will be passing it on to fellow seamstresses. Thank you for a walk down memory lane.
thanks! glad I could help. sounds like a good memory.
In the past, I have thrown out a large pair of garden shears and bought another one which has become dull. I'm mighty glad that I hadn't gotten round to tossing it; I will happily try one of your methods. I hadn't been looking for such a vid but came across it and it piqued my curiosity. I'm glad I took the time to check it out. Thanks! 👍🏾😀
When I was growing up in the 50's and 60's, we had a truck come around and just do sharpening.....scissors, knives, lawn mower blades, hedge shears(manual, we did not have electric hedge trimmers) garden shovels, weeding hoes, etc. anything that had a blade or needed a sharp edge! Never knew when he would show up! Great memories! Good simple instructions!
Great video, I was having problems sharpening mine and with your help figured out that it was not a sharpness problem they were bent so the cutting wasn't happening. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the video. I have several sewing shears that need sharpening. BTW both of those scissors that you showed are actually dressmaker shears because of the bent handle. The handle allows you to to keep the shears flat against the surface and slide the shears through the fabric.
THANK YOU! You saved me a very very good pair of textile scissor that I stupidly ruined years ago. I'm useless with sharpening tools, and you actually helped me use mine correctly and save my dear scissors. Again, THANK YOU!
My pleasure thanks.
You are so correct. Got a pair of Weiss shears a year ago. After restoring and sharpening they are an essential tool now.
Right on.
Thank you! I just tried this approach with my 'Fiskars' and it worked very well!
I love your job!
Thank you for the professionalism, availability and great job!
Thank you!!!
Thank, Thank Thank You,
Because of your video I have ben able to sharpin
2 of the 5 sets i have ,for Years
Tryed to get them sharp , with no sucess. You have renewed my hope .
I know how to sharpen just about evetything else but I never could zero in on which technique
To use , I know noone else who knows, well now i do
Thanks again,
C&E*Ca.USA
The outer surface of each arm, is the cutting surface. Great demonstration!
Thanks for sharing this about scissors ✂️
Thanks a lot. Now I know how to sharpen the scissors. God bless you and your family
As a retired toolmaker who was taught how to sharpen scissors you did a great job but a true test is to cut wet tissue paper cleanly .Cheers from down under in Australia.
Taking material off the hollow ground is not recommended due to the alignment of the blades the hollow grind makes the blades self sharpening in normal use. If there is reason to flat the hollow grind a bit then material must be removed from the pivot surface to match.
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In a video called "How To Sharpen Scissors - 3 Ways, plus Hacks" by Work Sharp Tools - if I recall correctly, they say that scissors are self-honing, but they do not say that they are self-sharpening.
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Thanks for the video. Was able to fix my scissors with sand paper used by painters
Ahhh...I am glad I had discovered this video...I realy need to sharpen my fabric shears,it hasn't been sharpened for almost 4 years and it is quite dull
We have some scissors which belonged to my mother and they are in need of sharpening and why no one uses them. I have scissors for cooking, some more for sewing and there are the general purpose scissors which is used for anything else and they are in great shape so far. Thanks for sharing the information on how to sharpen the scissors and I will try to remember it.
WOW! a simple but an ingenious method. I will try it next morning.
Love your shop! Excellent video on scissor sharpening! Most people don't even think about sharpening them. Thank you!
I found your video veryuseful today. I like how you explained what and why you were doing each step. And you did it in a way that I could clearly see exactly how you were doing it and you didn't do it so fast that I needed to keep rewatching it to try to figure out how you did it. Thank you so much. I have a big bag full of scissors that were not useful no more. I'm trying to learn to quilt and I'll be needing my scissors. Again thank you and awesome job. Look forward to learning more useful tips from you
Perfect timing for this I have 2 pairs in the shop need to be sharpened. Just found your video Saturday on Compass planes....nicely done.
i have some scissors inherited from my grandmother and great grandmother which were only used for fabric. They have become blunt and knicked over the years and i will certainly use this method to fix them. Over the years they have been "professionally" sharpened but were in worse state than before.
Super helpful! I ordered the stones & paddles! Thanks!
Thanks for the tips. I have a really old pair of Wiss sewing shears that have not been sharpened in years. I live in a small town and have not been able to locate anyone who can professionally sharpen them for me. So it is up to me. This should help.
Very well made video diy. Narration n length video was very concise. 👍🏼
It's amazing how we as modern Americans have lost some of the most basic of skills. Hell, this wasn't even considered a skill when I was a kid. Just something I had to do twice a month for all our scissors & knives. Youngsters today have no idea what to do when the stores are closed.
Nice video Wood Fella!
So true. Sharpening used to be ubiquitous for everyone now things are just disposable.
That's a fact. Baby boomers take a beating from young folks. But I can drive a stick and sharpen a knife while they wait for McDonald's to open. 😏
Super good sharpening scissors, specially you can’t find them, very much appreciated ❤️ thanks
I remember that old guy that came door to door looking to sharpen scissors. I wish he was still here thanks for vide
Good old days
True. When I was living with my grandmother in the village, 5 years ago, I would hear the old man calling out. He disappeared now, maybe died but he used to make such good work
Really were the good old days.
Fun fact: chisel and scissor are two versions of the same word. That's why scissors are plural: they're made of two chisels. In fact, in French they're still exactly the same word: un ciseau (yet another version of the same word that "chisel" comes from) is a chisel, and des ciseaux are "some chisels", i.e., scissors.
Interesting. Learn something new everyday Thanks
That is awesome! I love that! Thanks for sharing it.
Love learning random liguistic tidbits like this!
4 years late to the party, but thank you! It had always wondered why 'scissor' was pluralised; I love snippets like this.
Very nice and informative I didn't know how it was done, I figured something like this. I like the trick to keeping the file even. They should last you until Bev Reed wants them back. Ha Ha , Thanks for the video
Thank you. This was prefect for my little lady brain. :) I love your workshop.
glad I could help!
Well I have to give you a huge thank you cuz I don't use modern scissors I mainly use old ones like the ones you have but I have ones ranging from different sizes I mainly use them for leather work and I bought a big pair recently but sadly I don't know how to sharpen scissors and your video is the first one to pop up so thank you so much I've never learned how to sharpen scissors and I always replace them but there were certain pairs that I didn't want to replace thank you again for teaching me how to sharpen scissors now I can keep those scissors for a long time and keep using them
Glad I could help! I always love hearing of tools sharpened and put back to use!
And a big shout out to Bev Reed. She thought enough of those sheers that she put her name on them.
I hope she doesn't see this video, she'll come looking for him.
Hi: i try to find the page for Bev Reed ,nothing came up.
Kindly if you know her posts would you please send me the link i really appreciated thank you
@@abbaspisheh1271 No page that I know of my friend. Her name is etched on the pair of scissors that he is sharpening. That's all.
@@newtonmenlo Her name is etched in history.
I also really like those scissors to be honest lol. The shape is great and they're quite substantial. I'd like to know who made them.
I have a set of wiss shears I received working as a tire builder for Firestone in the late 60's use them for fabric, top and tonneau material, carpet,upholstery and gasket material they rarely require sharpening, just a touch up with a stone occasionly, the back side hasn't been touched and it still looks like new. A quality tool that with proper sharpening will last more than a lifetime.
Had a traveling salesman/scissor sharpener stop by the tire shop. His pitch was "most scissors will fold a dollar bill in half" He demonstrated, it cut his bill in half, said there sharp, see you next year.
Thank you for this! I sharpened a very cheap pair using a diamond nail file. Worked great!
I have a pair of scissors that don’t have the screw system and I thought that they were a lost case. I’m trying this method to sharpen them, and might as well do the same to my embroidery scissors. Thank you so much!
glad I could help. for those you can still tighten them if they get too lose by pounding the rivet a bit. just do not do it too much.
Thanks so much for sharing...God bless
This is AWESOME! I have a large pair of shears like that and will get them sharp now - thanks!
I have my grandmother's wiss cutting sheers. And I'm terrified of sharpening them wrong. But maybe after this I will try. I'll practice on some cheep multi pack first thought and maybe fiend a shop that does professional sharpening to compare them.
I have found many good vintage scissors in second hand and antique shops for a lot less than purchasing new and better quality.
So true. got to love the old ones!
Very useful demo, just what I needed to see. Clear visuals and technique. Looks pretty easy, I thought I would have to get grinding wheels and more. Thanks a lot!
Very happy that you did not add any music. Silence is appreciated!
FYI - Your intro is too long. A bit shorter would be best.
Your English Teacher said to tell you: MAINTAIN THEM, not MAINTENANCE THEM.
@@sonjo2419 not in this case why he was making the video was way too long and added nithing to sharpening scissors.
I really like when I watch a video and learn something I never intended to learn but that's super important or helpful. Showing the backside of the scissors and the cupping in the blade was really helpful to me because I would have tortured myself trying to get rid of the black stuff. Seriously, hours of frustration and losing my mind - that's how I get. You saved me. You're my hero. :)
Very informative thanks
Oh how I wish I had found this thread 2 weeks ago, I just pitched a pair out of frustration of dull cuts!
You taught me new things; many thanks
I worked in a sewing factory for years. Sharpened thousands of pairs on a double end bench grinder very successfully! A light touch,and close adherence to angle is key,and move quickly! Don't put blue hot spots on them! It's a muscle memory thing after the first couple hundred pair!
Right on. that is for sure the fast way to do it!
Thanks I appreciate your advice. Iwas about to give up.
How to sharpen industrial type scissor, in which one part is stationary, and the other part is moving.. It's a type of kinematic scissor..
Thank you!
Great instruction on scissors!
Helpful. Thank you
I really appreciated the video. Now can you make one on how to sharpen pinking shears? I know they are old fashioned, but no one sharpens them at the fabric store anymore. I love the cut to keep fray at bay. Will you please make a new video on how to sharpen pinking shears?
Another great video, thanks.
In 1967 I was in the army stationed in Augsburg Germany.
They had a unit there that was called property disposal, They would sell excess stuff. Some how they wound up with Weiss scissors that were brand new. I bought a few pairs of each type. One of them looks just like the ones you sharpened. They are amazing. I have sharpened them many times over the years and they are as good as new.
Most people would have tossed them when they were dull. You are right, a good pair of scissors will last a lifetime. I have shown all my kids how to sharpen their scissors.
Thanks again for a great video.
Tha k you for this video, I usually pay to get my scissors sharpened and it takes 2 or 3 weeks before I get them back and it's not cheap to get them done.
Thanks for the link.
Great job!
👌
Yeah… I couldn't have gotten rid of scissors like that, either. German. '67.
Nah… those are lifers.
A good pair of scissors would last a few lifetimes. They would become family heirlooms, with proper maintenance, of course.
thanks - now I know how to do it!
Thanks for the video. The one mistake I used to do with scissors was that I was sharpening them too much. One must check the level of metal and sharpen only as much as that metal would take. Sharpening any more makes the edge weak and the scissors turn bland in no time.
Taking slither off the edge and seeing shiny line without dark spots mean bkade is sharp.
Any rust need to be removed first.
Thanks I found your video just in time
thank you thank you so perfectly demonstrated
thanks for your sharp presentation 👍 🙏
Few things have excited my daughter as much as this topic! Keeping her various pairs of designated purpose scissors away from the rest of the family is an ongoing battle. Fabric, paper/crafting, food prep, hair, general purpose ad infinitum. LMAO. Yeah, I saved for her and my sanity.
LOL sounds like fun!
The struggle is real . I have had to threaten lives to stay away from my sewing scissors. When I go to mend something and either
1. I cant find them
2 . They won't cut.
And im left handed just to make it more difficult.
Nothing wrong with your daughter! Folks using your good scissors for cutting wire,plastic and such like will ruin them. Buy 2 pair .
Great video. Sharpening done easy!
Great video. I found a big pair of antique shears at a garage sale and used the credit card diamond stones to sharpen. Worked great and now they are my favorite to use
right on. love bringing them back to life!
You sure fiund a treasure to last few full life years. Good steel (if designed well) will never let you down if they are looked after well enough.
Great video! I have a pair of scissors that are spring-loaded for people with arthritis. It’s gotten dull and is sitting in the drawer.
I’m really glad I don’t have to take the scissors apart to do this!
Thank you very much
Pair of spring loaded sisters....sounds like fun...
@@frankhornby6873 lol! Scissors!!! Lol
Very good, thank you! I just sharpened the world's dullest scissors following your technique. I sub'd.
Nice! Gonna be helpful when I cut tape with em.
People can make money bringing these services back again we do need them. ❤❤❤
Absolutely 👍
My poor husband is a great disabled/ retired carpenter. Back when he could work, he did great work. Sharped all his tool really good. But he can't sharper scissors. For the life of him he never has been able in sharpen scissors. He's got all kinds of sharpeners. Poor thing.😪
My husband is also a disabled/retired carpenter and he can not sharpen sissors either. I hide them so he won't mess them up. Ruined so many of my knife's also. Poor thing.😪
Thanks. I just made a pair and had my questions answered from this video.
You apparently used that too much testing with your haircuts.
how did you know!
i wanted to sharpen scissors not here his life story so turned him off .
@@kittylogan9006 someone say haircuts?
@@kittylogan9006 hear*
Enjoyed your video very much. I’ve wanted to know how to sharpen my scissors for some time. There was a time when you could take them to the Singer machine store. They would run an ad in the paper that the scissor sharpen man would be there on a certain day. It usually cost $1. For each pair of scissors.
Thank you! This video is so helpful. 👍
My pleasure
For shears used on fiberglass or very heavy materials, i like a "rough" edge on the bevel. It helps to keep the material from slipping or "squeezing out" of the blades.
True. Do you have a good consistent way to make that surface?
@@jackmclane1826 a coarse grit stone or diamond plate. I have used 220 grit paper on glass before with acceptable results.
What a useful video!! I've sharpened everything in the shop except the scissors. I may even tackle some of my wife's.
they are fun to sharpen up!
Great video, I learned a lot. Thank you for posting it.
Scissors are more complex than they seem. The biggest mistake I've seen people make is to try to "sharpen" the inside surfaces that touch each other as they would a knife, removing more metal near the edge, and essentially ruining the cutting action.
Very true. Lots of fun here, but easily messed up.
@@WoodByWright Is cutting sandpaper with a pair of scissors to sharpen an old wives tale
Never forget my first time... Of course as you have stated. The more I tried to sharpen them the less they would cut! Downright embarrassing.
Next episode, Running With Scissors! Just kidding. Thanks for the tips!
Question: Since you don't dismantle the scissors I would think that eventually you'll get to a point where tightening will not produce the desired result do to material only being removed from a portion of the flat back and not directly under the pivot point. With rivets that's just the way it is. What do you think? Oh, and this video was a shear joy.
The reason for sharpening is not to bring the blades back together but to re tighten the screw. it comes unscrewed. the blades are bent in toward each other so you cna keep sharpening them.
@@WoodByWright I understand that, but I thought by sharpening only part of the blade you remove material at that point only. I would think that sooner or later enough material is removed so that tightening no longer works. I may not be explaining myself well.
@@rosshollinger8097 In that case you could take them apart and flatten the mating surfaces back into plane with the cutting edge, then reassemble. Complete overkill, but if this happened with a rivet, you could also file the rivet flush and tap it out to separate the two blades flatten/sharpen, get a new pin, reassemble and peen the pin over.
@@corylannon8546 Thanks. If it's not a problem, it's not a problem. I just thought of that as a result of my over-analytical brain.
@@rosshollinger8097 You're technically correct. After getting sharpened this way many many times, eventually the bottom section will not cut properly or at all because there will be a gap, one that even the inward bend of the blades will not be enough to compensate for.
So while the method in this video is probably fine for general sharpening of minimally used scissors, eventually they will still need to grind the pivot ride so that its flush with the rest of the scissor blade.
Conversely, one could just disassemble and grind the entire blade whenever its time to sharpen so as to wear all parts evenly and maintain its general flatness. Especially when given how easy it would be to do on the scissors he demonstrates on, as he would just unscrew them. As quick as disassembly would be on them, there's no reason to not disassemble for even a general sharpening. If the scissors were riveted, I could certainly understand waiting until it seemed absolutely necessary to disassemble and grind the pivot ride.
That said, with the kind of use his shears get (he mentioned being used 2-3x a week for light duty applications) It would be decades before something like grinding the pivot ride becomes necessary, however, if you cut a lot of things that dull your scissors (cardboard, fiberglass, etc) and have to sharpen more often, then its probably better to disassemble, every time you sharpen.
Thanks for reminding me I have more pieces to add to my sharpening list
Lol that is never done
Great video. I'm going to sharpen all my scissors tonight. LOL
Nice!
Most of them will be useless. They actually make a machine to sharpen scissors.
I remember back in 1953, I lost a nice pair of sharpened scissors. My neighbor came over to help me look for them. We found them, lodged deep in my back. Well, I was elated to find them, and my back pain suddenly disappeared! Wonderful memories of my past.
Wait, what?
Well turn around sit back n holler 😂
What an awesome workshop this man has.Can only dream of having one like this.
Thank you but wish you has tight closeups of the blades so the sharpening angle would have been more clear. Maybe for the fiskar scissors video? 🤔
The sharpening angle is whatever the bevel angle is on yours. They are all slightly different.
No lie man.. pull a restoration on those shears similar to the restorations we see on a bench plane.
I did not carry out ALL the pointers mentioned here (found them unnecessary) but the ones I did follow gave me a beautiful crisp edge on a pair of antique scissors I've been restoring. Excellent video!!
Very helpful.
Cool, I only have that cylindrical stone accessory for the Dremel, is there a video to sharpen scissors with just those?
God bless.
I would not want to sharpen scissors with that as it would be very easy to dig in. plus the grit is really low and that would leave striations in the blade. that is not to say you can not sharpen with a rotary tool, but it takes a LOT of skill to get a smooth cut and you will probably destroy a few getting to that point.
Hi thanks. I guess nothing beats sharpening scissors with the old low-tech whetstones (the gadget I bought which supposedly sharpened scissors which I guess is like those one edged japanese knives, didn't. I works fine for double edges knives), like shaving with a low-tech old style barber's blade is still the best. Old-tech but w/ new materials (like diamond in whetstones) is sometimes the best.
I read you need at least 2 grit, one is for smoothing. I did find a diamond whetstone, each just is around two dollars, he/she sells 400, 600 & 1000 grits, which one/s should I buy? There's another that sells diamond blocks w/ grits from 120 to 2000, each is about 2.5 dollars.
I also found a plastic gadget for retaining the angle while sharpening, I hope that has the angle for at least the scissors.
Thanks.
@@WoodByWright
as long as you are just touching up the scissors you only need a fine frit around 1000. but if you have a nick in the blade and it needs to be reprofiled then you will want something more aggressive.
Thanks
thanks
I thought this tutorial covered what I need to know quite nicely.
Thank you, so much for sharing!
Hello,
Thank you for your time and video.
Do you know how to tell the difference between the Wiss W20 and Wiss W20N shears? I understand the W20N is considered heavy duty for cutting more layers of material, and is actually built thicker. But if you do not both to compare how do you know? Especially when you are purchasing W20N and they send the W20. I want to confirm that I received what I paid for.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thank you once again.
Ron
Sorry. I do not know that one.
Excellent work what is d angle .
It depends. Most keep it around 70°. But some scissors will be all the way down at 30° and some will be up at 80 or 90°.
Good jobssss....👍👍👍
Ah, that sound of the scissors closing is one of those satisfying noises.
I
Yes sir
I sharping my scissors just use my scissors cutting the glass bottle 4-5 time and very sharp.
that is a great way to burnish them. just like a knife steel.
Can this process be applied to scissors with plastic handles?
Sure. As long as the steel is not too hard.
Can you ruin scissors if you haven't tried before ,for l worry about making them worse ,also lve hairdressing scissors that need done are they done differently or can l do them the same way please advise thankyou.
It is possible to make them duller, however, they can always be sharpened in the future. Sometimes it takes an attempt or two to get the methodology downright. If the steel is hardened then you need to use something that is harder such as diamond or whetstones.
Beautifully simple explanation, thank you.
Great video, and Awesome Job, Thank You.
I use those “EZE-LAP Hone and Stone”diamond paddle files alot at work as a machinist. Extra Coarse, Coarse, Medium, Fine, and Super Fine. They are wonderful.
“…and my employer did say I was responsible.”
…I love the way coffee can come out of my nose! Ha ha ha ha ha.
Much Love and Hugs
*checking all my scissors at home right now *
scissors must foul your mood, several times you sounded a bit "snippy"
LOL that is a good one!
😂😂😂 Wow so damn corny/cheesy dad joke, that it's funny. Like so bad that it's good 😂😂😂 well done guy
Awesome thank you