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How to sharpen secateurs
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I use Felco's own blade sharpener.
YouTube have some great videos of step by step guides how to take them apart, clean and sharpen and put back together again. It was for the felcon secateurs that I watched as I have a pair.
I've never sharpened a pair of secateurs in over 40 years of gardening.
Am I a bad person?
I have tried to sharpen my Fiskars just using an oil stone with varying degrees of success. They are never quite as sharp as I'd like them so perhaps I'll have a look at some of those youtube videos. I don't know how to strop, but perhaps my teenage daughter will give me some tips?
Hazel...it's worth the investment. . . . you can buy replacement parts for the Felcro ones but in ten years I haven't needed to.Other brands available.......
As my dear late Mother would have said :
" Never trouble trouble, 'til trouble troubles you"
They work fine and I'm sure I'd make them worse by messing about with them.