sharpening lawn mower blades

 I apologize if this has been brought up before, but its new
to me.  My neighbor just discovered that you can do a
great job of sharpening lawn mower blades with those
cheap hand held knife sharpeners...the ones that wrap
around your hand and you draw your knife through it.
They cost around 5:00 bucks, but they do a great job
on the blades

 

To each his own, but a "great job", I doubt.
Bob-tx

 

My thought exactly.  But then I saw a guy checking out of the garden center
at a KMart last week - with a new blade - he had the old one with him to
match up.  The old one had never been sharpened and wasn't really all that
dull.  Plus he paid a lot ($15) for the new blade.  I had just bought 3 JD
blades for a mower deck for $20 with a coupon off their website.

 Bob wrote:

I doubt too. I have a jig for my bench grinder that works well. I just
put new blades on everything though and should be set for life now.




--
Claude Hopper          :)

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Whenever I've sharpened blades, they need a LOT more than a "hand" sharpening.
The ends of the blade get pretty beat up.