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Old 20-01-2011, 09:08 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Best item to sharpen secateurs /pruners


"Darkside" wrote in message
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In article , Janet Tweedy
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My secateurs and pruners and loppers invariably need sharpening and I
should really make a resolution to do what experts say and don't wait
for them to get blunt but to sharpen after I have used them EVERY time
However I have a carborundum stone which I use for chisels etc. but I'm
hopeless in getting the right angle.
Is there anything that you would recommend to use on Felco etc. I think
darlac do one but i wondered if stones were better than say those rod
shaped sharpeners?


Dunno, I do secateurs and the kitchen knives with a small carborundum
stone that I pinched out of my dad's toolbox in about 1970.
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Does he know where it went ??????

I have a small one as well which was given to me by a rep years ago. I
believe they were 'samples'. I have a normal conventional sized one for
scissors, shears, knives, plane iron and wood chisels.

Mike


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