Do Nail Clippers Get Dull

You know what actually grinds my gears? When I become to clip my boom and the nail clipper is then dull that it won't fifty-fifty cut through my boom. It's even worse when the clipper is dull and you finish up tearing away your nail and inevitably ending up with a hangnail! When this scenario happens you have two choices;

(A) Go out and purchase some other set up of nail clippers

~or~

(B) Take a couple of minutes to acuminate the clippers

I bet you can pick which option I'll cull, and so go out some stones and starting time sharpening! Luckily, sharpening smash clippers is by far one of the easiest and non-labor intensive sharpening activities you tin can take on. The stones/abrasives I utilise to sharpen boom clipper can include:

A Diamond Tapered Rod or Blademedic
Ceramic Rod or Blademedic

The first stride in sharpening blast clippers is to accept them apart. Clasp the clippers together to remove the lever and the pin that holds the lever to the clippers. Make sure to keep the loose pieces in a secure identify where y'all won't lose them.

Nail clippers generally have ii chisel ground blades that run into to prune your smash. Chisel grinds are unremarkably very easy to sharpen since at that place is only one bevel to worry about shaping and a flat side. The difficulty you come across with sharpening smash clippers is that they often have concave edge geometry. This is why having various circular abrasives volition be useful when sharpening diverse nail clippers with different edge geometry.

Severely damaged edges

Starting time off, make up one's mind the best tool for the chore. This pair of clippers has pronounced concave edge geometry, so I'll start with Lansky Tapered Rod or the Blademedic Sharpener.

Lay the very tip of the Tapered Rod flat confronting the bevel on one side of the clippers. In this case I'm bringing the sharpener to the bevel and then I will exist pulling the sharpener confronting the border rather than pushing the edge against the sharpener. Now I'll work from the summit of the edge to the bottom of the edge using standard sharpening techniques. Proceed this until you've removed all harm and see the bevel becoming consistently "shiny" with new metal.

Once all the harm is removed, pick up your ceramic rod (I like using the one-half circular ceramic on the Blademedic) and just polish up the rough bevel a niggling bit.

In one case the bevel is sharp and polished, you nevertheless take one more step. Pick up your Diamond Tapered Rod and slide it between the teeth of the clippers. Line up the flat side of the edge underneath the bevel y'all just sharpened. The flat edge should prevarication flat on the tapered rod. Now work dorsum and along on the tapered rod to polish the burr formed on the apartment side of the edge.

You have now sharpened one side on a pair of nail clippers! Repeat this process on the other side of the clippers and bask a ameliorate experience anytime you clip your nails.