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Posted by Bill Boyce on March 5, 2009, 5:15 pm
He always looks good, doesn't he? Gets his suits made at #1 Savile Row,
it turns out.
Coincidentally, I communicated with another bespoke shop on Savile Row
last week on the topic of 12-13" tailor's shears, after reading in their
shop that the shears have been handed down from cutter to new-cutter
when they retired. Those must be some kind of shears, I'm thinking.
Wiss? Wilkinson? Mundial? Gingher? Kai? What?
Turns out there was no stamp at all on them!
But they volunteered they had another pair of US made oldies that hadn't
been sharpened in 15 YEARS of daily use in their tailor shop!
Set me to thinking: They probably cut just wool and cotton, and maybe
some wool/poly blend, and probably not any polar fleece or synthetics.
What is your experience for sharpening intervals with natural fabrics
with your faborite shears? Just curious. JPBill
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on March 5, 2009, 5:50 pm
Bill Boyce wrote:
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> He always looks good, doesn't he? Gets his suits made at #1 Savile Row,
> it turns out.
They were my dad's tailors, were Gieves & Hawks... The shop is a bit
commercial these days.
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> Coincidentally, I communicated with another bespoke shop on Savile Row
> last week on the topic of 12-13" tailor's shears, after reading in their
> shop that the shears have been handed down from cutter to new-cutter
> when they retired. Those must be some kind of shears, I'm thinking.
> Wiss? Wilkinson? Mundial? Gingher? Kai? What?
None of those, I should think. Hand forged before the war by a little
old scissor maker in Sheffield, I should thinbk.
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> Turns out there was no stamp at all on them!
See! I have a small pair of sheers (proper sheers, just with 7" blades
because my hands are too small for the big stuff!), and the only time I
had to send them back to be sharpened was after the car, with a load of
my sewing stuff in, was stolen, and the sewing stuff (except my new
sewing machine!) was dumped in a field! The scissors got a little
rusty, so I sent them 'home' to be given a little TLC.
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> But they volunteered they had another pair of US made oldies that hadn't
> been sharpened in 15 YEARS of daily use in their tailor shop!
Cut things properly, and never hit a pin, and forged shees keep their
edge for ever...
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> Set me to thinking: They probably cut just wool and cotton, and maybe
> some wool/poly blend, and probably not any polar fleece or synthetics.
> What is your experience for sharpening intervals with natural fabrics
> with your faborite shears? Just curious. JPBill
Poly and poly blends are definitely harder on the scissors than wool and
cotton. Silk is harder, too. I've never kept a note of the intervals,
but I know I sharpen them more often when doing a lot of poly stuff.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by Sparafucile on March 5, 2009, 11:30 pm
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:15:36 -0600, Bill Boyce wrote:
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> What is your experience for sharpening intervals with natural fabrics
> with your faborite shears? Just curious. JPBill
Cotton only. I use a 28mm rotary for cutting fabric from a pattern,
and have Gingher 8 inch shears; it's very sharp, I really like it (not
as much as the rotary), but it gets little use, so I haven't sharpened
it yet. I also have the Gingher 5 inch tailors points, which I use a
LOT and sharpen every three months or so.
I've used the Edgecraft kitchen knife sharpener for over 20 years, so
I had no hesitation about buying their Scissor Pro, which does an
excellent job on all of my household scissors.
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Ciao,
Serge
ŽI love cats because I take pleasure in my home; and little by
little, the cats become its visible soul.¡
Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963
3/5/2009 11:24:05 PM
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Posted by FarmI on March 6, 2009, 5:53 am
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> What is your experience for sharpening intervals with natural fabrics with
> your faborite shears? Just curious. JPBill
My first pair were never sharpened until I gave them (maybe 2 years ago) to
my daughter after I'd used them for about 25 years. I don't think my
current pair could be sharpened given that they have slight serrations and
are supposedly designed for knits. I thought they were so good for all
fabric that I didn't mind passing on my old ones to my daughter when she
finally took up sewing.
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