Great video! You're a very smart person!!!!! I think after seeing this wonderful video I'll just use my finger to sharpen it on a stone. I'll put some oil on the sharpening stone and just move the cutter around. I haven't done it so I can't tell you the results. If you can sharpen a knife on a stone you can sharpen these cutters. Your video is so wonderful! Thanks so much! UPDATE: It worked! All you need to do is take a stone and put some oil on it and rub the cutter in a circular motion for a few minutes . It actually worked! I just went back to the sharpened cutter and I'm impressed!

Hey I bought replacements for my sensatouch 3d but they were absolute crap. I didn't throw the old ones out so I am thinking of trying this on the old blades and the new ones. Thanks for this!

Great video! Thanks!

Amazing.... thanks a lot for sharing 👍👍👍

I attempt to do this manually with the polisher paste to sharpening knives and works well.

Thanks for the tutorial - the blades do cost almost as much as new shaver. I will be doing this with my two Norelco Shavers.

Brilliant video thanks, these are the sort of skills that are dying out sadly, any videos on sharpening a serated bread knife, I would like to learn that too, thanks Ian

These magnets can be purchased on Ebay for less than $10. The drill has a better result, great video

That is a great idea...save some cash there for sure! Thanks Box!

Another good tip.

I used a very fine sharpening stone. And rotate it by hand. It worked well. Must use honing oil for good results.

If you balance the bare cutters on the electric razor armatures and holding your abrasive/metal polish creamed hand mirror piece of glass upside down you can then use the action of the razors electric drive to spin the cutters.

Robert Edinger demonstrates a much easier honing method using a mirror and polishing or lapping compound. A far superior finish with much less wear to the cutting surfaces. Unless you run into a nail while shaving your cutting edges should never need more than a light honing to make the whole cutting surface shine brightly. The method shown in this video would be ideal for cleaning up very old and ragged cutters. Power sharpening ANY heat treated materiel can cause overheating and loss of temper, be careful and go slow. There is also an age old controversy over whether to sharpen towards the cutting edge or away from it. The method shown here sharpens away from the edge, taking material from the back, or fattest part of the edge towards the front, of narrowest part of the edge. This method tends to leave a curl or burr on the thinnest part of the cutting edge. Some chainsaw sharpeners knock this burr off with a piece of hardwood and many chainsaw Mfr.'s recommend this method for laymen in the field. It is much better to sharpen towards the edge itself, leaving no burr at all and ensuring a clean, straight cutting edge, but that is just my opinion developed over the years and confirmed (to me, anyway) by looking at the finished blades with a 10 power jewelers loupe and comparing sharpening styles by using each type equally then checking wear with the loupe again. My thanks to TOTBox for showing us how to deal with the really dinged up blades. Heck, three or four re-sharpens and you just saved the purchase price of a brand new shaver!

Great idea. Does the blade get shorten if you spin it more than required.

cool thanks for the tip

I plan to use Jiff (I think this is equivalent to Vim in the US) someone suggested spit on glass, just saying.

I have a old remionton sharver but my blads are not round its a bar with tow blads can you help me as how to sharpen them thanks

several other videos show how to do this with a piece of glass, toothpaste or very fine sandpaper and polish the surfaces by hand. No drill or magnet needed. This seems way too complicated compared to the other methods.

shouldn't you sharpen in the direction of the cut in order to not get a burr on the edge? And isn't 220 grit a bit coarse for getting a razor edge? I was thinking of using 1000+ grit and wet sand my heads by just letting the shaver spin them on the sandpaper but I wasn't really confident in how to go about doing it (hence why I ended up on this video)

This is MASSIVE over complication. Just hold a cutter by hand and rub it against the wet cutting stone. Change your grip/turn the cutter in your hand frequently to counteract any tendency to cut one area more than another. In place of a stone, wet or dry 1500 grit sandpaper (wet) over the kitchen or bathroom countertop works.

Does this work on the cutters of foil shavers?

thank you !

I think Wallace and Gromit do it this way.

Will only work with older style blades. Most new shavers have a slightly round blade profile, so you can't hone it flat. You can buy a tool for the new shavers to sharpen them, see my video review here:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/od6UrNaAqrulgIk.html

Thanks, this was a helpful video but I'm sure you yourself know it would have been better if you shortened it a lot.

Cost of new shaver head: $60. Cost of new electric/battery razor: $59.95. Do-It-Yourself cost: $50. - includes DeWalt rechargeable cordless screwdriver: $45, 1/2" neodymium magnet (if you can find one), $4. grinding stone (like in this video) : $5 Hassle, time, effort: figgedaboudit. Solution: switch back to regular twin blade razors. Bag of 12 Bic or Gillette shavers: $7.

You said counter clockwise, but it looked like clockwise??

For another video on how to sharpen a knife check out my video on my channel -Howtos Andwhatnots

You where going clockwise ?

not criticizing. bought new blades and foils for 22 bucks.

Too hard and terribly inaccurate. Sharpen the cutters right in the razor. Use 1 micron diamond lapping compound (about 2 bucks on eBay). That way, you sharpen the tiny cutters AND the heads (combs). Be sure to wash all the compound out.

Ooops big mistake using the strong magnet! The blades will become magnetic too and keep sticking to the metal housing and probably have hard time spinning! What's wrong with just using tips of your fingers to slowly rub the boades on the stone?! Too lazy perhaps lol?