Sharpening Your Pruning Tools


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If you feel that your tool is not cutting as well as usual, sharpen it right away!


How to sharpen pruning tools?

  1. Use a good sharpening tool, such as our tool #600019, for all of your pruning tools.
  2. Maintain the same factory bevel or angle of the cutting edge when do sharpening.
  3. File the bevel edge from the pivot toward the tip in four or five times.
  4. File the flat side of the blade once, with the file against the blade, to remove burrs caused by sharpening.