FiskarsUniversal scissor sharpener, For right and left-handers, Ceramic sharpening heads/plastic housing, Orange, Sewsharp, 1003871

I recently completely and utterly ruined my Fiskars scissors by stupidly trying to use a knife sharpener on them. Big mistake! They went from about 90% of their original sharpness to zero - and I mean zero. Unable to cut AT ALL. I contemplated buying another pair of Fiskar scissors but came across their own brand scissor sharpener. At a reasonable price, I thought it was worth a go…it’s restored my scissors to their previous level of sharpness, saving me the cost of buying more. I’ve sharpened all my kitchen scissors too. One thing I’d say is to put the tips of the blades into the slits on the sharpener, then draw the sharpener along the blade towards the handle - as you do this, the blades move apart to their widest open profile. Do this several times, then turn the scissors up the other way and repeat. Excellent product.

I've had the little disk shaped sharpener from fiskars for years and though it was good at honing an already present edge, over time the scissors ive got have become blunt (ta v much partner using my expensive fiskars dressmaking scissors to strip a wire when changing a plug.... and my expensive fiskars embroidery scissors to cut her toenails... I could go on and its best to laugh else I'd weep with sheer despondent misery that my partner has so little concept of the importance of super sharp scissors! Except she always notices "wow these are great scissors!" Right before ruining them.... <sigh>) anyhoo, the wee disk shaped orange gadget is really no good if you need to sharpen out nicks and inconsistent blade areas. I did try another knife/scissor sharpener prior to this but, honestly, it was basically useless. So I plumped for foskars own. It was nothing short of miraculous! My embroidery scissors which no longer snipped the tail off when using a machine to sew, rather bent the cotton round the blade in a disappointing fashion (!! SO FACEPALMINGLY UNACCEPTABLE!!) are now razor sharp and pretty much good as new!! Im actually gobsmacked! I have several pairs of fiskars scissors after being brought up by a sewing enthusiast and creative types and being a creative type and sewing person myself, the absolute necessity of decent cutting edges is indisputable if you want to enjoy your projects rather than swear at them!! The swearing time has now passed for me, and after just a few cuts through the sharpener with each pair, too! It was so quick it felt ludicrous and way too simple, like shluld I wait for the bit where the scissors fall apart just to complicate things? But nope, it really was that simple. Scissors in, use them to cut the wee bar in the scissor sharpening area, repeat 3-4 times, hey presto! Sharp scissors! My biggest regret is not buying this 18 months ago so I could avoid all that oroject swearing and project avoidance on account of shoddy tools. Fiskars are, in my opinion, a very reliably decent brand. I used to think way over proved, but honestly, I've tried using cheaper, inferior stuff and it isn't worth it. Their garden tools are pretty sh!t hot too btw, if you garden enthusiastically go and check those out!! Its a thumbs up from me!!

Every pair of scissors on the house were blunt so I got these to save having to buy new scissors.A simple piece of plastic with a couple of ceramic sharpening stones set at the correct angles, however, they work well and the scissors are definitely sharper.Being a left hander, I found these difficult to use, difficulty getting the sharpening motion correct when using the sharpener, but then again, I also struggle with scissors.Overall, I would recommend these scissor sharpeners.

Easy to use, but can't cope with really big scissors . Ideal for most household scissors and will give back a sharp cutting edge to even badly blunted blades with a minimum of effort. Recommended.

Product was delivered reasonably fast and is well made, it seems to work ok to keep scissors sharp but doesn’t work very well on blunt ones, tried unsuccessfully to sharpen my old blunt scissors but regardless of how many times i tried this product would not produce an edge sharp enough to cleanly cut fabric and had to have my scissors professionally sharpened, it’s possibly ok if you only use on paper scissors or to use to keep the sharp edge if scissors are already sharp and the unit is easier to use than the smaller units do to the housing being larger

Useful, good quality

Don't waste your money. Does absolutely nothing to the scissors. Tried them in different ways but they just didn't work at all. Scissors were just as dull after trying this device. Very awkward to try and use but definitely not worth the time or money

Excellent. Does as it should...once you get used to it.....it is light....so you do need two hands. Sharpens scissors of this type really well