Confirmed my thoughts!! Thank you sir!

how long did you do the whole process for as ive tried and it wont work

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!!

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 👍

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!

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

Hey thanks I appreciate you watching

please do! let me know!

Giddy up!

Great job!

thanks!

You are welcome!

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!

Most welcome!

Cut anbody yet?

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 .......

thank ya sir!

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)

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 !

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!

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.

Right on!

I would imagine they have replacements available.

Any beauty supply store sells replacement blade sets

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.

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.

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

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

@@EagleRun23 ok thx

my old book, just mentioned starting at a finer grit. 400-600 could be a start but I would recommend finishing with 800-1000+. if it works it works! :)

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

@@EagleRun23 thanks for the info

I use balistol pretty much exclusively. amzn.to/3R5SQun

@@EagleRun23 thanks

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

hahaha

Fact! Haha

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

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

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

No. They're not.

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

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

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

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.

it is enough.

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. :)