As you may know, almost every person who sharpens clipper blades does it using oil to "hold" the grit. I used oil for years until in 2004 the former owner of elmersclipperservice.com told me about his
mixture of white carpenters' wood glue and water, instead of the oil.
He did not tell me exactly how he mixed and spread it on the wheel,
and you might come up with a better method than the one I am using. It's important not to put too much glue on the wheel, in proportion to the amount of grit. Therefore, I measure the glue with the teaspoon, and I measure the grit
by counting the time that it is dropping. One could instead measure a certain amount of grit into a salt shaker, then shake all of it out onto the wheel.
You can buy an 18" wheel like this from The Shop, Inc
in Idaho, maybe about $400 if one-sided.
Then you'd need to buy a shaft,
motor, etc. and do construction. You might prefer to invest in
their complete manual machine. . . The Shop sells a special
coating for dressing the wheel. It comes in a kit that also includes a pad for spreading the solution. Kit is $25 as of 2/21/12. It is not yet on the web site, theshop-inc.com.
Yesterday Bruce, who sharpens clipper blades for mail order, told
me he uses The Shop solution, which can be seen on one of their
3 YouTube videos. Bruce said that one can use a salt shaker for grit
if one doesn't have the grit spreader, which costs $125.
In my opinion, both of these wheel dressings are best suited for
machines with a wheel r.p.m of about 800 to 900 r,p.m.,
and a wheel diameter of no less than 16", preferably
18" or more diameter.. However, one of the two YouTube
viewers who phoned me said he had great success with this
glue method on the 12" wheel that he's used for 18 years of
doing barber clipper blades with the usual oil dressing.
Feel free to contact me if you have questions or want to urge me to
do Part 2, showing tips about sharpening clipper blades, or a video about sharpening pet grooming and barber scissors. You can email me at larryarnett2@gmail.com. I prefer to talk on the phone weekday
mornings by appointment, instead of writing long emails about sharpening. If you are outside the U.S. I can talk via Skype
audio/video. I speak only English, but have a slight acquaintance
with German and French; I like Russian but don't know any, and
I lived one year in Korea, (1966, U.S.Army, Kimpo airport, Seoul).
The biggest sources of work for clipper blade sharpeners are animal hospitals (vet clinics) and dog groomers, including mail order.
Much smaller in volume are the barber shops, and the barbers also
need really good sharpening for their scissors.
Even if you're not yet a sharpener, you can join free
the sharpeners' online discussion group, SharpNet
at Yahoo Groups. Get your questions answered by
other members and the Archives. Also, there are two monthly
sharpeners' newsletters, at about $35/year, "The Sharpeners'
Report" and "On the Edge."
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Affûteuse à disque Viel AF-12 pour clipper à cheveuxby lrvpp1,867 views
Excellent!
Congrats my friend!!!!
dickeller 4 months ago
Great Job Larry keep up the good work.
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sharpeningtech 4 months ago