sharpening scissors?

[greybeard]

I can sharpen just about any knife, ax, hatchet, garden shears, tin snips, even drill bits but I've never been able to sharpen a pair of household scissors.
How do you do it?

 

[SBMF 2015]

Don’t know if it’s right or not but grandpa used to cut fringe out of a piece of fine grit sandpaper

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

I can sharpen just about any knife, ax, hatchet, garden shears, tin snips, even drill bits but I've never been able to sharpen a pair of household scissors.
How do you do it?

Buy new ones !

 

[greybeard]

Buy new ones !

"I don't know how either" would have sufficed.

 

[MurraysMutts]

"I don't know how either" would have sufficed.

Ex wife cuts hair.
U wanna talk high dollar scissors!!

When needed they get sent back for sharping. No one I know has a clue

Occasionally see a knife guy at a gun show. Might be an easy way to find out. If nothing else, maybe buy a new gun!

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

You take them apart and you sharpen on a stone or ceramic rod just like you sharpen anything else it's just a different angle. There are many videos online how to do it.

 

[Dave]

Sharp or dull , just remember you don't run with scissors.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Always seemed like a good plan to me too!

Some things just make good sense.

 

[devonian]

put them in a vice and put a grinder to them?

 

[TexasRancher]

You have to open them up...keep one side open...lock the other side down and wet stone edge to perfection, last step is to do one quick and final stone sweep against the flat end (top to handle). I've done sissors with moderate success....but look at the cutting angle blade surface carefully most have slight ridges...i guess to either help capture material or divert material away. Once you start stoning them you wear down those surface ridges and it never cuts as well as new.
For best cuts...blades need to be straight and tight to each other...warped blades and/or no method to tighten the two blades together...throw them away.

 

[greybeard]

For best cuts...blades need to be straight and tight to each other...warped blades and/or no method to tighten the two blades together...throw them away.

That's when they become 'shop' scissors. I have A LOT of them..

 

[wbvs58]

My grandmother was a seamstress and she used to give her scissors a bit of a touch up by opening and closing them across a milk bottle.

Ken