How to sharpen scissors at home yourself

http: //prntscr.com/ 9pwf2i -If the scissors become badly cut, this does not mean that they need to be replaced with new ones. After figuring out how to sharpen the scissors at home, you can give the habitual instrument a second life and show yourself to be a diligent masters. Moreover, the old tools, made of durable steel, often surpass the quality of modern Chinese handicrafts.

Preparatory work before sharpening

It's easiest to sharpen the office scissors or scissors for a hairstyle at home. Accessories from the manicure set( nippers, tweezers and scissors) are much more complicated.

Before you begin to sharpen the scissors, you must carefully examine them. Perhaps the reason for their poor performance is not only and not so much that the axle mount between the knives has loosened. Usually a bolt or rivet is used as an axis on the scissors. If the halves of the scissors are bolted, then it can be simply tightened.

If the blades are badly closed together with a tightened cog, you can slightly sharpen the heel-limiter next to the bolt hole, bringing them closer to each other. Do not try to bend the scissor blades for better closure. This, most likely, will not fix the situation, but the tool can be ruined irrevocably.

If a rivet is used as the connecting element between the blades, then, if necessary, it can also be pressed. The scissors are re-scratched only in the open form, otherwise they can be spoiled. To properly tighten the rivet, the scissors must be opened and laid on the anvil( there is always a metal object that can be used for this purpose at home) and gently flatten the rivet with the help of a small beard, periodically checking how the blades open and close.

If the problem persists, then the scissors are blunt and should be sharpened. This can also be done at home.

How to self-sharpen the scissors

Usually the grinding stone( bar, cutter) is at home and is used for sharpening and straightening knives. If not - then it can be purchased at almost any hardware store. Usually bars have two different sides - fine-grained and rough. At the first stage, use the coarse side of the shroud. Sharpening work is carried out in the following order:

• emery stone. The cuttings are laid on a cloth and wetted with water.
• If the scissors are fastened with a screw, then they should be disassembled, if on a rivet, then maximally open the blade.
• Trying to maximally observe the slope of the factory sharpening( it can not be changed), the blade is laid on the cutter so that the plane of the blade is tilted from itself. During the grinding, you must ensure that the chamfer is always parallel to the surface of the bar. With a calm movement, slowly the blade is driven away from itself and to the side, so that the bar passes uniformly along its entire length, moving from end to junction. These actions should be repeated several times until the blade becomes sharp. Blade can be carried on the bar only one way!
• After sharpening both blades, it is advisable to set them on the fine-grained side, several times passing along the bar alternately the flat inner side of the blade and the chamfer.
• Assemble the scissors and check how well they cut.

To check the sharpness of the grinding, one must take a flap of thin cloth and, holding it on the weight, cut it with scissors. If the cut is even and the material does not snack between the blades, the tool is perfectly sharpened and ready for use.

Features of sharpening nail scissors

Unlike tools for haircuts, nail scissors properly sharpen at home difficult. If the blades of such scissors are straight( usually they are scissors for nails or universal), then it is possible to repair and sharpen them according to the same scheme. But you need to use a small block with a fine grain, preferably with a diamond crumb. Very carefully it is necessary to treat the incline of the cutting chamfer - it differs from the angle of inclination on the other scissors.

In case the cosmetic scissors have thin curved blades( for skin and cuticles), it is almost impossible to repair them and sharpen the house. Independently at such tools it is possible to tighten a connecting bolt or slightly to correct a blade with a needle.

How to sharpen manicure tweezers

Masters of manicure often subdivide nail clippers and for skin, calling the first nippers, and the second - tweezers. First, we'll figure out how to fix the nippers at home.

• When sharpening the nail clipper, first remove the backlash, which is often present even with brand-new tools. If this is not done, then it is almost impossible to achieve the right convergence of the cutting parts.
• With a narrow diamond block, it is necessary to sharpen the blades from the inside, leveling the cutting edges.
• Sharpen the blades from the outside, tweak the tips.
• Cutters are laid on the table, clamped and sharpened both blades from the outside at the junction point, trying not to break the geometry. This operation must be carried out until the mirror plane is barely visible on the edge of the blade.
• Blades are polished with a piece of leather or polishing paste.

If the closing of the cutting surfaces is tight( checked by looking at the gap) and the cutters cut, and do not tear the polyethylene film, then the sharpening is carried out qualitatively.

Tweezers grind somewhat harder. Although the operations are almost the same as with the pliers, but they should be carried out very carefully, neatly and slowly. They require a lot of patience, but sharpening makes sense, since good, quality tweezers are expensive. The most important thing when sharpening - to achieve a complete convergence of sponges along the entire length. Otherwise, tweezers will tear the cuticle. A properly sharpened tool removes the skin when it is pressed lightly, leaving a smooth cut.