Sharpening for other bladed tools

Beyond the three main services — scissors, clipper blades and knives — the workshop also sharpens other bladed tools: axes, lawnmower and brushcutter blades, secateurs, loppers and hedge trimmer blades. If your tool has a blade and is not on the list, ask — most can be sharpened, some cannot, and you hear which before the work rather than after it.

Axes and splitting tools

An axe is ground on its original edge angle, evenly on both sides, and deliberately not to a razor edge: too fine an edge rolls on the first strike into wood. A supporting land is left to back the edge. Cooling is used throughout, since overheated steel softens for good. Before grinding the head is checked for cracks and for how it seats on the handle — a cracked head is replaced, not sharpened.

Bypass secateurs

This type has a single ground blade with one bevel, and a counter-blade the cutting blade passes. Only the outer bevel is ground, at the angle the maker gave the tool. The flat inner face stays flat: grind it and a gap opens between blade and counter-blade, so the shoot slides past instead of being cut — secateurs in that state cannot be rescued by further sharpening. The burr is therefore taken off by polishing, or with a pass so light it does not alter the plane.

Before grinding, the secateurs are stripped, sap and resin removed, and the pivot and spring checked. On reassembly the screw is set so the blades meet with light contact along the whole of the cut. Anvil secateurs are a different case: the blade is ground symmetrically on both sides and must land centrally on the anvil, or it crushes the shoot against the edge. The same goes for loppers: identical geometry, longer leverage.

Hedge trimmer blades

There are two bars and they work as a pair. Each tooth is ground on its top bevel, with the same amount taken off both bars, or the teeth stop meeting together and the tool breaks stems rather than cutting them. Bent teeth are straightened first, and the burr is removed from the underside so the bars do not bind. The clearance between the bars is checked last.

Lawnmower and brushcutter blades

A lawnmower blade is ground on its original bevel, from the top face only, and deliberately not to a razor edge: too fine an edge rolls on the first stone or kerb. A narrow land is left to support the edge. Cooling is used throughout: thin steel burns quickly and loses its hardness for good. Before grinding it is checked for cracks around the centre hole and on the lift — a cracked blade is replaced, not sharpened. After grinding it is balanced: the two ends are equalised in weight, since an unbalanced blade at working speed destroys the spindle bearing and the shaft.

On brushcutter blades the same amount is taken off every tooth so the blade stays balanced; a piece with a broken tooth or a crack is scrap.

The price and an indicative turnaround are set after assessment, since the range of tools and conditions runs from a freshly sharpened secateur to a pitted axe — write or call on +386 51 659 600 · igor.komadina@t-2.net.

The workshop is not VAT-registered, so the invoice carries the note: VAT is not charged pursuant to Article 94(1) of the Slovenian VAT Act (ZDDV-1). The price is final, and VAT-registered buyers have no input VAT to deduct.