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 How to sharpen garden tools?
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daisybeans
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: How to sharpen garden tools? |
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Hello all...
I realized my clippers are DULL when it was hard to cut a ripe okra off the plant this evening....
How do you guys sharpen your tools -- clippers, lopers, edging tool, etc? Do you take them to be professionally sharpened? Or is there a specific tool to use to sharpen garden tools.
Thanks for the advice.
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kuntrygal
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DB, my husband had 'something' he used. It was a wheel type thing, motorized with wire brushes on it. (Wish we could draw thingson here). Don't know if it was actually for something else and he just used it for that purpose as well. Maybe some of the men here will know what I am talking about. I guess it was some type of grinder/brush thingy. Gosh I know that isn't a bit of help and makes me sounds
totally nuts!!  But I can still see it bolted down on his tool table after almost 14 years!
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eileen
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:52 am Post subject: |
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I hear Ian mumbling once in a while that he'll have to get the whet stone and strop out to sharpen the blades of his tools. Don't ask me what they are though 'cause if I ever found out it's another job I'd be left to do!!! 
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daisybeans
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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Gaylyn, my brother has a grinder - it has different wheels that attach to do different things. If someone could tell me how to do it, I could use his. The part that stumps me is how to sharpen curved blades... (well,that and how not to cut off my finger... that's what kind of scares me.)
Eileen -- I'm embarrassed to say I don't know how to use a whetstone either.... I've heard if you don't do it right, you can make your blades even more dull so I just avoid it.
I think I am going to have to break down and learn how to do this. Bring on the instructions.... I've been googling it... it looks complicated.
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daisybeans
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Eileen and Sjoerd. Thi pictures are helpful. From some things I read, a half round file is useful for the curved blades. Probably a small one would be more versatile, being able to use it on the smaller clippers and larger tools? That's my thought process, anyway. Think I will go with the file, rather than the grinder.
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gardenmama
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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My husband has attachment for the dremel that he uses to sharpen everything.
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You can take this work from the special professional
which are related to this kind of work !
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'm willing to bet that someone has a tutorial on sharpening things on You Tube 
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