My next project, yet another pair of Heinisch #8 that were supposed to be #7.

[hutch--]

These turned up this morning, I got them for $29.00 USD which hit about $40.00 AUD and with the usual freight and tax ended up being about 100 AUD. They are a pretty scruffy pair, a lot of pitting and reasonably rusty but they have enough blade to make a decent pair from and while the blades were damaged long ago when some moron tried to cut hard wire of similar, the vendor roughly sharpened then to get under the damage so they are recoverable.

Fortunately the blade geometry is OK and the hinge looks like its in good nick. I tend to stay away from good condition pairs as I have close to a complete set of Heinisch and don't want to deny someone who needs them but the rough ones are very specialised to restore that few want, they are generally sold as antiques rather than tailors tools so I don't feel guilty about it.

[Henry Hall]

Old snippers come to you to be reborn. At a price ($100!  ).

[hutch--]

There is a trick to it Henry, first I get about 3 days amusement which is cheaper than most forms of entertainment, next I get a close enough to perfect tool and it keeps me off a computer for at least some of the time. When you get these medium sized shears to work correctly they are a joy to use, great precision and cut like rockets. I know why the old fellas liked them and hung onto them for a lifetime, the new stuff is not in the same class.

[peterle]

what about a swedish model:

https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen/d/uralte-riesen-grosse-xxxl-schere-39-cm-schneiderschere-362192042/

[hutch--]

Given that I don't read Swedish, they look good, plenty of blade length and very strong. 120 Euro sound like a good price for such a pair.

[Henry Hall]

They look great. The only concern I would have is that the blades don't meet at the point.

[hutch--]

They will once I get into that pair. I had to hollow grind the earlier set as they worked OK but not really good enough and they are close to being finished. Someone had restored them in the past and while their work was OK, the blades had been set with too much curvature and they were starting to notch at the tips. I lapped them by hand and improved them but they still had the same problem.

With this next pair, the blade curvature is original so they should not be a problem. They will have to be hollow ground to get under the rust and I have to fix the cutting edge profile but I am hopeful that these will end up a very good pair. I find with Wiss and Heinisch shears that #7 and #8 fit my hands well and you can cut most things with them but you would normally keep a pair of trimmers for finer detail small radius shapes.

[hutch--]

Here is a quick look at the earlier pair, they are not finished but are working OK. Sorry about the lousy video but I could not get the right distance with proper cameras so I use a small action camera and stabilised the footage after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ6xrNXekD8

[hutch--]

This is the part finished state of the second pair. Although the same model, this pair are a lot heavier in the front.

The cutting edge curvature has been corrected with minimal height loss so there is plenty of blade left.


Re-profiles the blades to get the right front profile.




Handles just about ready to paint later

[Schneiderfrei]

Brilliant Hutch, I want to send all my scissors over on the next post!

G