Scissors! Scissors! Scissors!
So, on Tuesday this week, we had a special guest come and visit our class in a sort of celebration of our finishing cutting class. It was great!
Heres the deal: There are two kinds of scissors; Beveled and Convex.
I drew them in photoshop for ya...
Guess which one is sharper... Yep! The one on the right.
There are also two kinds of metal that these scissors are made out of:
Forged and Tempered.
Forged is worked and compressed into its final form, much like a good sword..
Tempered is melted, put in a mold to cool and rough shod into form.
Another interesting thing that I learned was in addition to rinsing your shears after every client, shears need to be lubricated with shear oil(he said that it has a small amount of wax in it) and then re-tensioned.
The key to good tension, it turns out, is finding the optimal balance between too loose and too tight. Too loose will round the blades out, while too tight will wear them against each other and both will limit their life span.
The way to test tension is to hold the finger tang and open the shears so that they make a cross. Let go.
If they don't move, or only close about half way, they're too tight. If they just flop closed they're too loose. The goal is to close about 2/3rds of the way.
The gentlemen who did the presentation also showed us some stretches and taught us about how a lot of scissor sharpening people will ruin good shears trying to give them a bevel edge, instead of sharpening them correctly.
Of course, I want to buy one of their shears, are you kidding?!?!? Trouble is, I don't have the money... yet.
I know exactly which model I want, actually... I want to get the 6.5 inch swivel scissors. You can see all of their products on their website www.scissorpros.com and specifically the swivel shears that I like HERE. (Its the Samadhi "cyclone"... did you know you can personalize them with different color attachments? I'm going to get purple.*grins*)
Happy Perusing... and remember! Don't drop your shears!!!
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