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Old 04-25-2014, 01:11 PM
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When i was looking for how-to info on scissor sharpening I ran across that bit. It could be wrong. Oh-wait! Everything on the internet is true.
I hope I'm not passing on bad info.
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Old 04-25-2014, 01:14 PM
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My scissors are MY scissors and not to be used by anyone. I have several pairs for different things and I use my Fiskar's for fabric. I have had them for years and never been sharpened. With rotary cutting my scissor use is minimal but having a pair for everything is the way to go. Sharpening by a professional is expensive so I take good care to not have to go there.
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Old 04-25-2014, 01:21 PM
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I heard or read somewhere to sharpen scissor cut aluminum foil...anyone else ever hear that....
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Old 04-26-2014, 02:42 AM
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I always use good equipment for everything. I believe that people have more accidents when they are dealing with dull or inadequate tools. If it is a good pair of scissors, one does not have to tug or hack at anything in frustration ad thus avoid slipping accidents. However, I do have coloured bands on them to denote usage. I generally take them to the Scissorman for maintenance.
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Old 04-26-2014, 02:46 AM
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I have scissors in every room just to keep hubs and kids from "borrowing" mine. They know that that is absolutely forbidden!
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Old 04-26-2014, 02:48 AM
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OK. I am a bit of a crazy. I have a 'collection' of scissors I don't know how it happened or exactly when it started. Maybe because scissors hide and kids carry them off. They take legs and hide - they go in weird places. Yup I keep scissors just for fabric, just for paper, just for other stuff, just kitchen scissors, just to clip threads, a half a little scissors to pick out stitches, kid scissors, fingernail scissors, long scissors, really long scissors, short scissors, hair cut scissors, button hole scissors, hair thinning scissors, historical camping scissors, special edge type scissors and so on. Oh yup there are yard scissors in the garage. I have yet to have a pair of pinking scissors stay sharp and if they go to a sharpener place they don't work any better before than after on fabric. When we moved here I started collecting the scissors I had around the house and I hung them in the window. Ikea has a real nice heavy rail thing that fits above my window perfectly and some hooks so I got some and hung scissors of all kinds. I keep finding more scissors. I don't know where they keep coming from. Now they are all together in the window but I still use certain scissors for certain projects. Once when I was getting a hair cut the beautician said some people's hair will dull their scissors.
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Old 04-26-2014, 03:34 AM
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I tied a piece of ribbon on the handle of my scissors. The rest of the family can use any scissors in the house that doesn't have a piece of ribbon on the handle. Before that I always heard "I didn't know those were your good scissors..." Not only does it identify my scissors but it also helps me find them if they are under a pile of fabric or stuff. I have a short piece of ribbon on my dressmaker scissors but on my small scissors that I use by my machine and for hand sewing I have a long piece of ribbon on the handle so I can wear my scissors around my neck when I'm sitting on the couch so I don't lose them in the cushions and when I'm at the machine I loop the ribbon around a spindle on the machine so if they get pushed off the table they won't fall all the way to the floor but can still use them by the machine without unlooping the ribbon. I had a good pair ruined one day when it fell point down on a tile floor and bent the point.

Looking at the picture of the curved scissors that have fallen on the floor, I don't have an answer. Mine don't lay like that but they are also not left handed so don't know if that's something unique to left handed scissors or perhaps that brand.
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Old 04-26-2014, 03:56 AM
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I always keep an old pair of cheap scissors handy to open envelopes, cut paper, open packages, etc. in the living room for anyone to use for anything they want. When they get too dull to use any more I throw them out Since the fit I threw at our son for cutting gasket material with my sewing scissors no one in my house would dream of using my sewing scissors for anything at all. I probably have a shoe box full of scissors of one kind or another. I'm not picky about brand, just so they cut nicely.
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Old 04-26-2014, 04:38 AM
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Fortunately, I am the only one using my scissors. I have two pairs of paper scissors and use kitchen scissors for difficult to open packages.
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Old 04-26-2014, 04:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Geri B View Post
I heard or read somewhere to sharpen scissor cut aluminum foil...anyone else ever hear that....
I have heard that too but i believe it's meant to just do a light sharpening on paper scissors. I have done it and i think it works but i haven't done it enough to really be sure.

Now i do know that cutting up wax paper will lubricate blades, especially on something like a paper shredder.
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