how do you sharpen yours?

[jamesw]

hi everyone just wondering how you guys on here sharpen your hedgecutters?

I have been using the file method, but been thinking that i want them sharpened really well! What ddoes everyone else do? cheers for your replies in advance and cheers

[Johny Walker]

strip them down & an angle grinder

[Mesterh]

Angle grinder with a flap disc, unstripped

[ukminch]

Just watch you don't get them to hot, but yep an angle grinder, then an oil stone on the back. Worth taking them off to do properly every so often, also worth looking at the cost of new blades, sometimes worth just replacing them instead of messing about..... Or at least one to use, one to sharpen

 

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[Lee Winger]

My advice would be don't sharpen the teeth, you'll lose all the hard tempered steel, and end up making the blades soft......

 

I've had hedge cutters last years, all I've ever needed to do was remove burrs with a flat file

[Pro Gard]

Strip down then diamond file on fein multimaster. Back off blade backs with a oil stone and ree assemble.

[Ian Leach]

I did use an angle grinder until Dean (i think) said that it can be very dangerous and its to aggressive so now use a dremel.