Tailor shear sharpening

[ozzy1977]

Hi I am after a well recommended company to sharpen my tailor shears and pinking shears, any recommendations?

Cheers

Chris

 

[Macaroon]

Anything I couldn't/didn't want to sharpen myself I'd talk to Longstrider and get him to do it.

 

[Robson Valley]

Ask at the local barber shop.

 

[demographic]

Just registering interest to this as a few years ago I found a set of T Wilkinsons & Sons taylors shears in a local secondhand shop, bought them for a couple of quid for my wife then found out they should have been knocking on two hundred if in good condition.
They need more than a bit of a sharpen though and are slightly pitted.

Will happily pay for someone to do a proper job on them as there's many things I'll sharpen and if it were just the very edges I'd be there in no time flat but its more than that and I'm not upto it.
They are the ones with the long bolts so they sit on the table just right to be picked up hundreds of times a day.

Anyone?

 

[dwardo]

I did my mums shears recently and they were a right pain. They also were just touched up for years so needed a lot of metal removing. Good thing about these old tools is they were built with lots of extra meat on the cutting edge in expectation.
I used a fine cut metal file to tidy the edge then various grades of wet and dry.
Not as hard as you would imagine just fiddly. A vice helps no end.