Aside from sharpening knives, what did you use your Sharpmaker for?

[nerdlock]

Quirky question, but I thought we'd start a thread sharing what are other non-traditional uses for the Sharpmaker that you have done?

Earlier, we duplicated a few sets of keys for some rooms in the house, but the keymaker was in a hurry to close shop, so the ridges of the keys were sharp and full of "burrs". So when I got home, I brought out the Sharpmaker and, like sharpening serrations, knocked off those pesky "burrs" and slightly refined the ridges. It feels and turns in the lock much better now.

[Evil D]

I've used the rods to help polish the tang on a few blades to help smooth out opening action.

[Road Tripper]

I've used the brown rods to knock down some rough edges on non-knife metal items. The Sharpmaker also works very well for scissors.

[Dodge]

Scissors, Ar15 trigger polishing, de-burring sharp edges on metal items. Did a Fiskars hatchet edge re-profile once.

[Fly Fishing Rick]

I have used mine to polish a few sets of PB washers and I've sharpened lots of fish hooks with it as well.

[Ramonade]

Scissors, hairdresser's scissors, deburring on metal parts, polishing metal with the UF rod.
Maybe there's other things, but it doesn't come to mind right now.

[kennethsime]

I used an old broken brown rod the other day for deburring the steer tube on a new bike frame after cutting it down to size. Worked well on the outer rim, less well on the inner rim.

[Surfingringo]

I sharpen fish hooks on mine all the time.

[Peter1960]

I used a broken UF rod to dress the grinding wheels on my bench grinder.

[Brock O Lee]

Micro bevelled my lawnmower blades as a final step after sharpening them.

[Bemo]

Brock O Lee, never thought of that, I have deburred my lawn mower blades depending on how bad it is. A clean cut is better for your grass.

[Mushroom]

I sharpen fish hooks on mine all the time.

Same here, I’ve sharpened a bunch of fish hooks with my Sharpmaker stones.

I’ve also sharpened a micro bevel into a Szabohawk with the Sharpmaker stones as well.

[cabfrank]

I'll have to check out the video again. I don't remember how Sal showed how to sharpen scissors. It seemed counterintuitive when I saw it before, but, if it works, I'll give it a shot.

[TkoK83Spy]

Door stop. I'm serious.

After giving the hinges to my workout/knife room some WD40 the door wouldn't stay open after I did that and my dog likes to lay in the doorway while I work out, so I grabbed the Sharpmaker so he wasn't the door stop haha.

[Wartstein]

I'll have to check out the video again. I don't remember how Sal showed how to sharpen scissors. It seemed counterintuitive when I saw it before, but, if it works, I'll give it a shot.

Here you go https://youtu.be/5LBDnJv5B58

Scissors starting at 26:25 (there is an index with time stamps under the vid anyway)

[cabfrank]

Thanks!

[Araignee]

Tried to sharpen my scissors but it didn't seem to work that well... seems like I haven't done things properly

[imyavetra]

Funny that y'all mention scissors, as I've always struggled to get them sharp - sometimes they would end up duller than when I started.

But this week I sharpened the scissors on two Victorinox Swiss Army knives and my small Fiskars Softgrip. I had trouble feeling the bevel on the SAKs and ended up holding the scissors in one hand and using the Sharpmaker stones as files - it worked great!

The Fiskars has a wide bevel and was easy to sharpen like Sal shows in the video; they're sharper than from the factory after the white stone. I also worked on my hairdressing scissors last night but didn't manage to get the tip back to factory sharpness.

[cabfrank]

I was wondering that too, but I'm going to check out the video and see how it works.