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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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Bill Boyce
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They were my dad's tailors, were Gieves & Hawks... The shop is a bit commercial these days.

None of those, I should think. Hand forged before the war by a little old scissor maker in Sheffield, I should thinbk.

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.

Cut things properly, and never hit a pin, and forged shees keep their edge for ever...

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.

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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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