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Spent $200 on a clipper blade sharpening kit and kinda regret it
I bought this fancy sharpening stone set online thinking I could save money by doing my own blades at home. The kit was $200, and after three tries I just wrecked a perfectly good Wahl blade set. Now I'm back to sending them out to a shop in town that charges $15 per blade, and they come back way sharper than anything I did. Maybe I just don't have the patience for it, or maybe those kits are overhyped. Has anyone else here tried sharpening their own blades and actually gotten it to work?
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riley5172mo ago
People get way too intense about sharpening their own tools like it's some kind of life skill you gotta master. I sent my clippers to a guy on Etsy once and he messed them up worse than I ever could, so now I just buy new blades every six months for like thirty bucks. The whole DIY sharpening thing feels like a trap for people who think they're gonna save money but end up spending more on broken stuff. Maybe it's just me but a $200 kit seems like overkill for something a shop can do for fifteen dollars and zero headache. Live and learn.
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taylor_barnes592mo ago
Yeah I heard some guy on YouTube say the same thing @riley517...
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