How To Sharpen Sheet Metal Shears

Hedge shears are a great tool for controlling your landscaping and giving it a personal touch.

How to sharpen sheet metal shears.

One easy way to tell that it is time to sharpen your shears is if you feel a lot of resistance when using them. If you re not sure whether they re mean. The file works very well on hedge and pruning shears. Sharpen hedge shears with a file.

Many methods may be used to sharpen sheet metal cutting shears some of which require specialized tools. There are several tools you could use to sharpen a blade. The best and simplest was is to use a 10 in. This video demonstrates our metal shear blade sharpening service.

You could use an angle grinder a bench grinder a hand file or a sharpening stone. This will make them increasingly difficult to use. It shows how we sharpen two sheet metal guillotine shear blades at 3 meters each on our wor. Over time these tools often become dull.

Usually if the blade is not too blunt all you need is a medium and fine hand file to shape the edge and finish the blade off with a sharpening stone with a little oil on it. However after extended use these blades can dull and become ineffective.