What are your favorite shears for cutting these nasty cloths? Please post links to place of purchase.
If you’re in San Diego, where do you get them sharpened?
Go For it Wildog! You can use it to dress up any cutting edge you have blades, knives. scissors. Get the wheels that are stiched concentrically around the arbor. They hold up longer. The rust comment as supposed to be a joke, like how everyone refers to the heat as a "dry heat". Anything near 100 degrees is HOT. Rust is rust and hot is hot.
By the way, if the edge is sharp and you hit it with the rouge, you can shave with the blade. Also, do the backsides as well, helps with glide.
if you go to the stumps market on thursday(its in point loma on voltaire street) there is a guy that show up and has a tent in the parking lot that sharpens all my scissors
serrated kevlar scissors?
not sure ive never used that type before but the guy does seem to be vary skilled at what he does so it might be worth a try
Ben, I’m using called Gingher model G-NS-2, made in Germany. By Germans. They have a sirated (sp?) edge and cut any cloth really really well. Mine are nylon with a stainless blade for about $15 on Amazon. But they make a pair that is all metal.
I got a pair , serrated on one side, at harbour freight for a 1.50. Only cut up a few yards of 50/50 carbon kevlar weave for tail patches, but still going strong after about 6 months
I get mine at Fiberglass hawaii. They look like 10" black plastic and metal disposable shears.
The trick to make you scissors last for “nasty cloths” is to never interchange them for use on any other material. Have a designated pair for each “nasty cloth” you use. Never had mine professionally sharpened, just toss out and replace a couple times a year.
I think they are around 10-12 dollars.
Hey Fellas, there are DIY knife sharpeners that are quite effective and easy to use if you follow directions. The best I've seen is made by Lansky. There are knock offs that work but Lansky seems to hold up better. They use a "triple grind" method that produces a fine SHARP edge.Will work on most scissors but serrated edges, they won't. It's all done by hand with stones and a guide to set the proper angle. Once you get a nice edge it doesn't take long to dress it up. I use the muslin wheel and jeweler's rouge on scissors too. It's just a great way to finish a very sharp edge.
My Brother is a doctor. He grabs me pairs of the disposable medical shears. They use them to cut threw all kinds of stuff in the E.R.
They are serrated, and it turns out there great on Kevlar.
My cost is free. So, for production, I don’t know if it makes dollars and sense.
Anyway…
I wonder if the “Zipsnip” cutters work on carbon and kevlar.I’ve cut 3 layers of 4oz with ease using them,and they supposedly are capable of cutting chicken wire.
Howzit Ben, I use Weiss and for triming little strands a pair of those ones with the orange handles. I bought a small shapening stone and just tune the blade every few boards and it all works great. You do have to tune up the Weisses from day one so they will cut and not drag the glass It takes a while to get them right but after that you will love the way they work. The only problem about having them on Kauai was I had to keep them soaking in Acetone when not in use. Before shipping them here I oiled them up real heavy and wrapped them in an oily rag and them into a ziplock. I am hoping that they won't rust here in Az because they don't allow rust across the state line. Aloha,Kokua
Yeah Kokua, Their rust is different from ours. "More of a dry rust". I know I've said this before(probably too often) but with a bench grinder and a muslin wheel with rouge on it will take off any corrosion and a quick easy way to dress up any steel edge. Even a buffing pad and an electric drill will help a lot to hone.
Howzit tblank, Now tht is new to me since I always thought rust as just rust but I learn something new all the time. I usually use steel wool to remove it but I haven't needed it so I have just left it in the package I shipped it in. I can see how your way would work great and I have a bench grinder but need to get the muslin wheel and some rouge first,thanks for the idea. Aloha,Kokua
Howzit tblank,You really got me on that one and I took it hook,line and sinker. Actually in Hawaii we call rust, metal cancer for the obvious reason. I had a tri sied shapening stone set that was just the best for 30 years but somebody stole it, but I would never sharpen scissors with it and the small stone works the best on my scissors. I would sharpen the angled part of the blade then the flat inside last and they were so sharp it would have been so easy to cut yourself. I don't know if you have evr worked in a restaurant kitchen but really good sharp knives are so important and the blade is actually like a feather and you used a steel or the final honing since that was what straightened the edge and made it the sharpiest. I still have my knives and the boning knife would cut your finger off without you even knowing it since it is like a razor blade. You needed to have the shapest blade possible when cutting Sashimi and I liked to cut it very thin. I am sure you have heard the saying about it's the dull blades that will cut you ,well that is because you have to push harder to make a cut and a lot of times the blae will slip and cut your finger so always keep your knives good and sharp. Aloha,Kokua