picking up on Tom’s comments…

> I have one point of disagreement with Paul Sellars---well, I'll put it
stronger, Paul is dead wrong in one point: he flattens the inside of the
scissors on a flat stone. JeffGorman, in one of the old emails, said to do this
too. Maybe English shears are different, have a different blade geometry, and
are actually flat on the insides. But good American shears are curved in both
directions, hollow-ground across the blades and bowed along the blades.


Speaking for the English - our quality scissors are hollow ground and curved
too.  Our not so quality modern plastic handled instant scissors seem to be flat
steel, so maybe these mass produced versions are the ones being referred to.

I happen to have one of the few tools from my maternal grandfather here at the
desk - a pair of scissors.  They seem to have flat blades, but a ‘proper’ check
shows a very slight hollow ground.

They're  marked ‘Champ…  & co Sheffield’  I think it will be ‘Champion’ but the
mark is almost gone.  I can’t find a reference to Champ, or Champion’

And the reason - as I was once told, for not stoning the face is because you are
unable to stone back the bearing surface at the joint.  If you could do so, then
I would guess no harm done.
Someone mentioned removing gross damage and distortion to the cutting edge.  I
deem this not to be tampering with the face of course.

A long way riund to say ‘I agree with Tom.  Face stoning not allowed. 


More excitingly, and informatively, I came across this video of hand making
scissors.  It’s a good watch

https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=IitTC4PqcOI ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitTC4PqcOI>



Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot
In Northumberland