Button making - material cutter - if it gets dull .......

[baileyuph]

Do you have a good way to sharpen or just replace the cutter?

Couple of my cutters are getting duller - is why I ask.

I don't have a lathe sharpener or whatever seemingly would be an ideal sharpener.

Cutters aren't expensive but a sharper one usually is needed in the middle of a project.

Doyle

[sofadoc]

Here's one way:

[MinUph]

I saw that video before but none of my cutters fit any of the drills we have LOL.

[sofadoc]

That is a #36 in the video. It just happens to fit my drill chuck snugly. On other sizes, I chuck up the blade end of a screwdriver, and wrap the appropriate amount of tape around the handle end to fit the cutter.

[gene]

I use the same sharpener as sofaD but I hold the cutters by hand. I go slow and easy with it, turning the cutter as it sharpens.

My cutters have never been so sharp.

I just used that sharpener today to sharpen the hex blade on my electric cutter. I also hold that blade with my hand. The first time I sharpened it I used a pair of needle nose pliers thinking that would be safer. I stopped thinking about it and today I held the blade with my hand.

gene

[MinUph]

I'll have to try that Dennis

[SteveA]

That's a good technique with the knife sharpener and cordless - keep them coming -
SA

[bobbin]

Me?  I'm a "job creator".  I have a couple of friends who sharpen their own tools (chisels for carving) and I happily fork over pork to have them "liven up" my cutters.  We talk shop, and my tools come back nice and sharp and buffed and oiled to a handsome sheen. 

Reminds me to ask (again) about the scissor sharpener that Doc recommended years ago... never jotted it down (chin on chest) but would like to have one,