Scissors. Fun project

lutejones

lutejones

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Hey guys,
My wife is a designer, and a lot of her friends too, a couple of days ago we went to visit one of them who works with leather mostly. In her study I saw a wonderful pair of antique fabric scissors which belonged to a tailor, and her father gave them to her as a present.
I told her that I could sharpen them for her, she got very excited and gave 3 more pairs hehe.
reprofiled with DMT coarse and refined with DMT fine, japanese 1k and strop.
If you ever sharpen scissors be very careful when deburring because the first time I thought it was done, the two edges collided when I tried to close them.
and here is the monster


It took me about 2 hours the whole process and man, my arms hurted. You can't imagine the weight of those things.

here is the bevel


as you can see It's slightly convex, so I had to incorporate a little rocking motion to every stroke.
hope you like it.
 
Nice. I've only sharpened a pair of household/kitchen scissors. However, I took them apart and sharpened each blade separately on water stones. A frien,d who had previously used my knife, used the scissors and said "your stuff is sharp!" :D
 
Those are awesome! Loooove the patina. I also like the hardware.

I've sharpened plenty of knives, but never scissors. Is it difficult? Is it similar to a chisel ground knife? You sharpen the bevel side, what do you do about the other side?

Someone told me a while back that he has sharpened scissors all his life simply by cutting sandpaper. Not something I'm going to try without some thought because it just sounds wrong...

Did you test cut with those shears? How do they cut?
 
hey Strig,
the patina is very cool!!
i've sharpened quite a few and they are not difficult, just put the side of the bevel flat on the stone like a scandi grind and don't sharpen the inside only deburr
the problem with this one was the huge size and the bad initial shape also the convex grind on the bevel but I have some practice convexing freehand.

I don't know about the sandpaper, It could work as the bevels rub the grit, but.... also It should be quite slow???
 
I have read and tried sharpening scissors, when they were not bad, by cutting very fine steel wool. Has worked most of the time. Also to debur scissors you are suppose to close them on each other. This has always removed a normal burr for me. Congrats for a job well done.
 
Yes, to deburr you simply close the scissors. Sometimes helps to cut a paper towel.

Remember to never touch the inside or flat section of the sheers as this will ruin them.
 
hey guys,
here is the complete set of scissors, they are curious at least:
- you saw the monster tailor shears.
- the second are handmade in Cambodia, they were badly rusted but a little sandpaper and steel wool took out the worst, some pitting remains at the tip
- the third one is from India, is not good quality, is welded with brass for the handle, but the welding is getting loose
- the last one are a simple modern pair

 
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