How to Sharpen ANY Hair Clipper Trimmer Blade 

Confirmed my thoughts!! Thank you sir!

Naw. You really can’t mess them up even if you did they are fixable :)

I think that the sharpening is the simple part. Keeping your stones flat enough is the hard part.

Awesome!!

Awesome!! Love to see it!

Same I cut mine and my two sons hair

Great vid man from one dad to another thank you 🙏

Memories of Ma cutting our hair as kids...the nicks and snags...hair pulling! Till someone planted the idea/shortcut of using the bowlcut in her head. The humiliation reached even new levels!

I keep mine flat, and I have a flatner. but sandpaper on glass tile works great too!

@@EagleRun23 That's great, but the problem comes when someone else follows your video without flattening their stone first and then wonders why their clippers are worse than then when they started. Meanwhile, they have basically ruined their clipper blades in the process.

Used to use 1/4" glass plate, high grit emory and polishing paste to get a nice mirror finish on copper computer heat sinks!

That is understood to anyone who sharpens...

This is exactly what I was going to ask; you’ve hit the nail on its head 👍

Give it a shot. Can’t make them worse! Haha

@@EagleRun23 you’re absolutely correct 🤣. I’m very excited to try it this evening. Thank you for your wonderful video!

fantastic, they could be sharpened 20+ times? no idea, mine are at like 5-6 I cut my boys hair this weekend! ha

haha, 10-4

@@EagleRun23 ; good buddy

I had a teacher at school who told my class that “sandpaper” was what you put in the bottom of bird cages!😂

Do you sand with it?

@@user-ny8nw8yl3u : it's primery use is in the automotive trade for rubbing down paintwork & body filler' 'sandpaper' is never used also known as wet & dry paper .......

please do! let me know!

You are welcome!

Hey thanks I appreciate you watching

Giddy up!

Great job!

I have only ever seen them sharpened flat. These even have a guide on the opposite flat to keep it flat. I’ll have to look this up maybe Wahl has info.

OP (original poster) I’m guessing yours are not wahl brand? That’s why they are concave? Do most barbers have these sharpeners that you have?

When I was in dog grooming school I had a friend who had a mobile sharpening service. I turned him onto my school because students were needing their shears sharpened. Someone asked him to do their clipper blades and he ruined them because he was unaware that indeed these blades are considered "hollow ground". I can't help but wonder how many folks clippers don't work anymore after watching this video.

@@EagleRun23What @BladeWorx-ga and @joesbarbecue1 are saying is true. You may be able to get away with this type of flat grind in various rare (or very casual) use cases, but almost all electric clippers are designed to be used having blades with a (very subtle) concave grind. This is vital for smooth shearing action to work properly on hair (of all types). The principle is similar with scissors; If you look closely a pair of cheap junk drawer/grade-school art class scissors, you'll see their blades lay 'flat' on top of each other. Now, compare them to any good pair of hairdresser and/or pet grooming scissors, you'll see that the blades (of the good ones) do indeed have a slight curve 'inwards' (in towards each other). When they're closed, you'll notice that only tips actually touch -- you'll see a small gap in towards the middle area between the 2 blades because of this profile. This is similar to a concave grind on electric clipper blades, in that it causes significantly higher pressure in a much smaller point that the blades meet each other along the shearing edge range.

@@EagleRun23comment deleter! (detail regarding shearing geometry/physics and why Bladeworx-ga and Joesbarbecue1 are correct)

thanks!

thank ya, thats mostly what work on in my videos, but i am just a regular guy and all sorts of stuff ends up on my work bench. haha

@@EagleRun23 love it ! I’ll check out your other stuff my friend !

Most welcome!

fantastic comment, thanks man. I am an amatur, just my boys hair for 7 years, haha, These sharpening videos do really well so i make one every time I sharpen mine. learned a lot, hopefully people can learn a basic skill and extend their blades!

Cut anbody yet?

thank ya sir!

i dont think you can mess it up, give it a shot!

haha, well you see, i am not a sharpener guy full time on youtube :) more of a necessity. haha good catch, might be a, if you know you know type thing.

hahaha

Right on!

Fact! Haha

Ok I’ll try that. Stay tuned. Might be a week or two but we can try it.

If a surface grinder is what I think it is. That’s an odd choice. Would require the opposing size to be perfectly flat too I think.

The grinder must have heated the blades too much and softened it.

I would imagine they have replacements available.

Any beauty supply store sells replacement blade sets

1:56 these are water stones. if you already have an oil stone, you can use any light machine oil, wd40 to actual honing oil. some are better than others, but just use what you have.

Yes. Controlling moving generating burr IS sharpening. This is how they are intended to be sharpened. Either on a stone, sand paper, or diamond wheel.

any whet stone, wet sandpaper, bout anything will work.

@@EagleRun23 ok thx

They call it wet/dry paper. I always prefer wet. Spray bottle works great.

@@EagleRun23 thanks for the info

self sharpening, maybe to an extent, but I cant imagine how a little intervention with a stone would hurt.

I have links here for you. Amazon works all over the world

Any light machine oil works. Wd40 would work in a pinch. My stones here are water stones. Just use water.

@@EagleRun23is it ok to use mineral oil?

You set them even. To cut different lengths of hair off then you have to use different sized guard attachments on top.

I think a few years back I did a video on a different pair of clippers on sand paper.

that would be too coarse for this work. 1000 2000 maybe finish higher even

good, i left a link!

If you want to buy it locally you can find those finer grit sandpapers in the automotive section of stores like Walmart, or at an autobody shop.

Sometimes at an Auto body supply store ,good luck

it is enough.

some are hollow ground. Most barbers buy new blades, and dont sharpen them. the 2-3 i have asked. This is a diy deal for us home clipper users. my blade was not hollow ground so it works fine.

I don’t think so. Put an edge on it and you will be delighted with how they cut.

No. They're not.

shhhh... :)

Right. Look at that nice 'clip'. Thats NOT sandpaper used to sharpen. You wet a piece of sandpaper and the sand peels off as its not waterproof. And sandpaper is too coarse anyways.

Ya I did that. Learned. :)

ya, or you can learn the hard way..... :)

hey! good catch! yes sir! thanks for watching!

Yes! I also put a drop in a water spray bottle and spray some

These have been sharpened dozens of times. Not sure what happened to yours.

sharpen them up, save a buck! :)

​@EagleRun23 more like save 70% of the original unit! Blades for a $30 unit are $23!

​@@EagleRun23I see that Glock magazine 😊

And stripped lowers😅

you spy!!@@NoNo_IStay

Do companies ship there? I am not sure. Never been to Kenya :)

So I worked with a guy when I was younger who did this professionally, full time. He had a spinning disc plate maching in his shop and he didnt hollow ground anything that I saw. He did a stone sometimes manually like I showed, he also used sanpaper on a glass sheet in a pinch. Learned a lot from that guy. Diy guys wont have access to a machine like that either. I just like for people to know that you can make yours better at home with basic stuff.

@@EagleRun23 After years of clipper blades sitting dull, I figured out how to sharpen them with a modified hollow ground with just emery cloth and a flat steel plate. I laid the cloth abrasive side up flat just where the teeth of the cutter and comb were located and the back of cutter and comb were resting on the plate with no cloth under it. I held the cutter and comb down with my fingers and stroked the cutter and comb with modest pressure a few times and would check to see if the surface was cleaned up. The teeth rested on the cloth and the back not gave a slight angle with when the cutter and comb assembled insured that the tips were touching first. After sharpening three sets, I wore my finger tips so I will design and built a simple fixture to hold the blades and cloth to save my fingers from wear.

@@EagleRun23 that spinning disc plate you saw is not flat, it is conical.

Haha. You are first!