Properly sharpening the fine blades of lawn shears requires a little care. At worst, an uneven sharpening angle will render your grass shears unusable. Your lawn shears will cut like the first day.

If the grass shears are not sharp, cutting the grass becomes torture

Tool requirements - tips for inexperienced home gardeners

For home gardeners with little manual experience, we recommend investing in a wet grinder to optimally sharpen garden tools. Dry-rotating grinding aids harbor the great risk that an incorrect cutting geometry occurs or that the cutting edges heat up, burn out and lose their hardness. Good quality devices for hobby and garden can be purchased for less than 150 euros.

Step-by-step guide - How to properly sharpen grass shears

The first step is to disassemble the lawn shears into their individual parts. Clamp the grass shears exactly at the original angle. How to proceed:

  • Sharpen the blades on the corundum grindstone with about 90 revolutions
  • Fill the height-adjustable water tank and set it precisely to guarantee seamless humidification
  • Ideally, optimize the efficiency of the sharpening stone with a special sharpening paste
  • Then use the leather honing wheel to remove all grinding burrs from the blades

Before you put the freshly sharpened lawn shears back together, the device receives a care treatment. To do this, treat all moving parts with penetrating or sewing machine oil. The screw connections, on the other hand, are not greased. To distribute the oil evenly in the hinges, move the hinges several times after assembling the scissors.

Please only use a grinding aid with a clamping device. Without fixing the cutting edges, the cutting geometry gets out of joint and your lawn shears become useless. If the investment in a wet grinding machine is not worthwhile for your needs, it is better to hire a professional sharpening service to take care of your pruning shears.(17.82€)

Sharpen grass shears in between - that's how it works

If your lawn shears have no nicks, you can easily improve the sharpness with a manual combination sharpening stone. This has two different sides. The coarser side does the preliminary grinding, while the finer side gives your grass shears the finishing touches. High-quality products are supplied with a holding device, which greatly simplifies manual grinding work.

tips

Dirt, rust and plant sap clog your grass shears and make them stiff. Don't put your secateurs on the ground, even for a short break from work. Your valuable tools are better kept on a stone surface or on the lawn.

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