hi to all I have a sharpening stone rough and smooth about 8 ins long and about 1inch half thick and a old sand stone with all in one oil when I was a young lad in Stockton a old man came around with his bike and a stone on the bike (bike like a butchers bike with basket on front knives shears about 6 pence old six penny piece) that gives my age away hi palisade yes slow and smooth with stone then I finnish of with a oilcloth clean of all bits
Gives me something to mull over, think I have some files but no clamp. The 6 in 1 tool sounds a good idea and I'll look on youtube to see if there are any links giving a demonstration.
I use a bench grinder, you can get a decent one for about 20 quid from screwfix, trick is only do a tiny amount each time, typicaly for shears etc set your angle and it's 1 maybe two passes. I use a hand file for my felcos, I give them a little tlc after every job for a minute or so, keeps them like razors. The bench grinder is the best though, lawn mower blades, kitchen knives, all like lasers in seconds.. for 20 quid you can't go wrong, and your scissors knives shears etc will be sharp forever, taking less than 20 secs a time. I have a Dremel too, however it's harder to keep at the correct angle compared to the bench grinder, where you can set the angle and lean the blade against something!
BTW, nice to still see some familiar names lurking about still.
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hi to all I have a sharpening stone rough and smooth about 8 ins long and about 1inch half thick and a old sand stone with all in one oil when I was a young lad in Stockton a old man came around with his bike and a stone on the bike (bike like a butchers bike with basket on front knives shears about 6 pence old six penny piece) that gives my age away hi palisade yes slow and smooth with stone then I finnish of with a oilcloth clean of all bits
You can buy a 6 in 1 hand held tool, think it's spear and Jackson from wilko. I use it all the time AND it works well. Think it's about £6.
Gives me something to mull over, think I have some files but no clamp. The 6 in 1 tool sounds a good idea and I'll look on youtube to see if there are any links giving a demonstration.
Thanks for all the replies.
Don't get to Stockton as often now Frank.
I use a bench grinder, you can get a decent one for about 20 quid from screwfix, trick is only do a tiny amount each time, typicaly for shears etc set your angle and it's 1 maybe two passes. I use a hand file for my felcos, I give them a little tlc after every job for a minute or so, keeps them like razors. The bench grinder is the best though, lawn mower blades, kitchen knives, all like lasers in seconds.. for 20 quid you can't go wrong, and your scissors knives shears etc will be sharp forever, taking less than 20 secs a time. I have a Dremel too, however it's harder to keep at the correct angle compared to the bench grinder, where you can set the angle and lean the blade against something!
BTW, nice to still see some familiar names lurking about still.
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