Pinking Shears
Dear Aunt Daisy, "Mrs. J.M." in a recent Listener, recommended to owners of pinking shears and scissors that they be sharpened by cutting pieces of emery paper. This is more likely to damage scissors, and especially pinigng shears, than to improve them. The cutting edge of these tools is formed by the sharp angle of the flat of the blade and the bevel ground on it (in the case of pinking shears by the angle of the serrations with the flat top of the blades) and the only correct way of rerlewing that cutting edge is by grinding or honing that bevel or flat top. The flat of the blade, or the serrations, should not be touched with any abrasive, One would not attain the desired result by cutting emery paper.:
E.K.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 23
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135Pinking Shears New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 23
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