william_garcia•1mo agoProlific Poster

Bought a $60 clipper blade sharpening kit and it was total garbage

Spent an hour messing with that kit from Amazon and it just made my blades duller lol. Anyone else found a solid way to sharpen blades that actually works?

4 comments

4 Comments

rose_reed1mo ago

My first clipper sharpening kit ended up in the trash after I tried it on my dog's shears and they started pulling hair like crazy (my poor schnauzer still gives me the side-eye for that). I finally gave up and just started sending my blades out to a guy I found on Etsy who does it for like $8 each, which honestly beats the $60 I spent on that useless kit. Plus, I'm pretty sure I have a black belt in making things worse when I try to fix stuff myself, so outsourcing is just smarter at this point.

victor_robinson1mo ago

Wait, @rose_reed, you seriously paid $60 for a sharpening kit that couldn't even handle dog shears?

robins831mo ago

$60 for a sharpening kit that can't even handle dog shears is a proper gut punch. Learned that lesson the hard way myself, cheaper to just pay someone who knows what they're doing.

spencer_coleman1mo agoTop Commenter

I get where you're coming from, but honestly I've had the opposite experience with those kits. I grabbed a $50 one from a brand called Dareu and it came with a little guide that tells you the exact angle to hold the blade. Took me maybe 20 minutes to figure it out on an old pair of clippers I didn't care about, and now I can get a pretty decent edge back on most blades. The key is not to go too fast and to use a little bit of oil on the stone so it doesn't clog up. I still mess up sometimes, but it saves me from having to mail stuff out or pay someone else every time.