I am one who is glad to see someone who can sharpen pinking shears and
scissors (only wish this came up sooner)
I just got burned $34.00 for sending 4 scissors and 1 pinking shear to
someone for shaping in another state.
To make matters worse, I called Fiskars to ask about who to send them too,
They, told me to send my scissors to him,. (all of mine are the softouch)
Mine came back dirty,( with white stuff on them) not cleaned or anything,
not packaged well at all, They sent back to me with my scissors threw
into package box on there own with no peanuts or paper !!
I sent them in with peanuts, and peanuts on the tips ( no telling what
happened to my box)
I had to pay shipping to and from ($12)
One pair one wasn't even sharpened and will not even cut a thread.
He did call me to say one could not be sharpened, but I found one of the
small ones I sent one wasn't even sharpened. They are better, but I have
dull spots on them. Esp. towards the back, so I still cannot take a full cut
of fabric.
NO refund, but only a credit for one pair, if I wanted to send more to him!
Ha I think not!
I did not call him back after I received them back and let him know, what
good would it do if I did?
Your prices are cheaper!
I paid $6 per pair, $8 for pinking and two where the small scissors!
Now if I wasn't feeling so Mad, I would try your service.
"Village Sharpener" m wrote
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Elizabeth Young wrote:
I have tried to get my Wiss pinking shears sharpened locally. No good. No
one does it anymore around here anymore (Sacramento CA).
Boo Hoo
Does anyone have a contact for some place in the US where I can send my
pinking shears for sharpening?
liz young (in cloudy california)
I sharpen any shears, Specializing in industrial and pinking.
Sorry, I am not local, as I live and work in Marlboro MA. I have the buk
of my work sent to me as a lot of people have trouble finding a cutler,
anywhere.
The one thing we can't sharpen is cast steel. The way to determine is to
file in a discreet area (behind pivot). If the file "skates" (doesn't cut
into steel), they are probably cast.
Your Wiss pinkers are excellent candidates for sharpening, PROVIDED, that
someone already has not tried to sharpen the individual teeth, used
sandpaper or tinfoil (STOP THAT !). You don't actually sharpen the teeth.
The manufacture of pinking shears make tight tolerances and if you sharpen
the teeth, you effectively ruin the shears so that they never mesh
properly.
Have been sharpening for 20 years professionally and I sharpen in excess
of 6000 shears per year for one customer alone and over 8000 knives last
year at my retail/walk-in location.
My website:
http://www.villagesharpener.com
Hope this is not against group policy, but I also have probably the
largest collection of antique scissors/shears and related ephemera.
Selling a lot of it due to recent (down)turn of events, but am staying
with sharpening full-time. Here are some of my auctions (lots more
coming):
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