MODEL 500 Instructions ScissorPro® Diamond Hone® Sharpener Read these instructions before use. It is essential that you follow these instructions to achieve optimum results. © 2012 EdgeCraft Corp.
Important Safeguards When using electrical appliances, basic safety precautions should always be followed including the following: 1. Read all instructions. 2. To protect against electrical hazards, do not immerse the ScissorPro® in water or other liquid. 3. Make sure only clean scissor blades are inserted in the ScissorPro®. 4. Unplug from outlet when not in use, before putting on or taking off parts and before cleaning. 5. Avoid contacting moving parts. 6.
Congratulations You are the owner of the world’s finest scissors sharpener designed to permit everyone to sharpen scissors to professional standards, simply and easily. The ScissorPro® will put an incredibly sharp edge on your kitchen, household, sewing and arts and crafts scissors. It is important to completely read this booklet to optimize your sharpening results.
Important information 1. Warning: even though all scissors may appear to be similar, there are major differences among them that must be understood before you use this sharpener. The ScissorPro® will sharpen most, but not all types of scissors. Do not attempt to sharpen hair styling scissors, pinking shears, manicure scissors, serrated blades, tin snips, scissors greater than 12” in length or any blade that does not fit readily in the sharpening position.
4. During the sharpening process, you will be asked to feel for a burr on the scissors blade in order to know when sharpening is complete. It is essential that you understand how this is done. Feeling for a burr involves running your finger carefully across (not along) the back of the blade as shown in Figure 5. A burr is a microscopic protrusion of metal produced during the sharpening process under the edges of the blade that can be felt but is not always visible.
Sharpening Procedures General Procedure Read this before starting to sharpen. Either blade may be sharpened first. You will find when sharpening correctly that the blade you are sharpening always ends up to be the top blade. The free blade always hangs freely below the blade being sharpened. In any sharpening stage you should lay the back of the blade on the magnet surface as close to the pivot of the scissors as feels comfortable.
For Knife-Edge Scissors Knife-edge scissors, designed particularly for cutting heavy fabric layers, have one or both blades capable of cutting like a knife. Commonly, only the cutter blade of this type scissors has the knife edge. When that is the case, and you can properly identify and sharpen that blade, sharpening the other (anvil) blade is optional or even unnecessary. Only the knife-edge scissors blade is sharpened by this special procedure.
6. With poultry shears, you need to sharpe only the smooth convex blade. The concave (usually serrated) blade will not need sharpening. 7. Do not attempt to sharpen serrated blades. However, where only one blade is serrated, the other can be sharpened using the procedure for standard scissors. Look carefully for serrations. They can be very small and difficult to see. 8. Scissors Adjustment: All “professional” scissors and many other scissors have a screw tensioner at the pivot.
