You can freshen up scissors quickly with a burnisher (one of ours, of
course). Not for edges that have been seriously trashed (fiberglass?!?)
-- just "cut" the burnisher with the scissors, pushing and pulling the
burnisher in and out of the blades, re-forming the cutting edges on both
blades at the same time.

Rev. Ron

PS: My mother said her mother would use the neck of a milk bottle for
the same effect. She didn't have one of my burnishers...

John Lederer wrote:
> 
> I have an old pair of scissors that say "C.W. Dahlgren Eskilstuna" that
> I use in the shop.  They used to cut very well, until I used them on
> fiberglass.
> 
> I was going to resharpen them...and realized I really don't know a good
> method -- I have always followed my Mother's advice of cutting aluminum
> foil to sharpen scissors, but I suspect something more is needed here.
> 
> What is a good method?  Is there a scary sharp equivalent for scissors?
> Is the dulling process similar to that of a chisel or plane blade, or is
> it different?

-- 
Ron Hock (ron@h...)
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