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I was totally ignorant to the world of fiber crafts the first- and last- time my wife found me cutting up something with her sewing scissors.
Of course, that was before she became addicted to every fiber craft under the sun. Now I live in a house with several spinning wheels and a tapestry loom. This could be you too if you start crocheting. Take heed.
(I'm actually fine with it because she's making me an Ernie sweater. I saw an Ernie costume on Halloween and I suddenly realized how much I wanted an Ernie sweater. So I asked and she immediately said okay. Yay!)
The thing is, it's pretty dang easy to sharpen scissors on a sharpening stone. Like, use em for everything! Go ham! Just sharpen them when they get dull.
So you know how when you cut something and the object was to hard for the scissors and the object turns sideways between the 2 blades and makes it so the scissors never function as well again? I'm way to good at doing that... Other than pulling my head out of my ass and using a different tool, any suggestions on how to fix those tools? My kitchen sheers are like that now after using them to prune my strawberries outside. (Clearly I need to have designated sheers/scissors for different things, but sometimes I'm just that idiot that thinks 1 hammer fits all jobs
Scissors work because the blades are tight against each other -- there's no gap between them when they're cutting. When they "go sideways" it's usually because the hinge is loose.
If they're good quality scissors, you probably need to tighten the screw holding the blades together.
Yeah, old scissors used to have those, my kitchen sheers unfortunately do not, need to just get a nice pair and only use them for the kitchen.
You can still probably tighten them. Here's a couple techniques. What you're trying to do is squish the rivet holding the two halves together in order to tighten it back up.
Thanks, I'll see if I can give that a try. I'll be back to trying to cut down am oak tree with my kitchen sheers in no time! Haha