I have a pair of very fine point Dr. Slick scissors that I dropped and bent the tip (point). Can they be salvaged? If so how do I straighten the tip without breaking it off?
Tahnks,
Northwoods ( where the big bass have been really hitting my flies.)
Sorry that I don’t have an easy way to fix your scissors. One of the comments that I was given while shopping for new scissors is that the carbide tipped ones are more durable and have a better chance of surviving a fall when dropped.
Hope that someone here has a better idea of what to do to resolve your concerns, but the next time around, if you like the very fine point scissors, you might enjoy working with the carbide tipped model.
Sorry to hear of your loss, a bad fall will always hurt! :rolleyes: I’ve never found a way of fixing them. My wife found me a replacement set, made of titanium in a sewing store super fine point. They work very well.
CHINA------I have about 15 for kids classes some new and they all say stainless PAKISTAN. Funny these kids 13 t0 15 yrs use them hard and never have a problem BILL
I caught mine with my big toe once. Not a pretty sight!
I never found a way to fix the two I bent . Finally cut my losses and tossed them.
As for a soft landing spot, I had carpet in the tying room. Bad idea! the dog knocked over several boxes of 100 #20 hooks. Ever try to find #20s in a thick carpet? We finally had to toss the carpet because we kept finding them with our sox or our feet. #20s may be small but they hurt. To make matters worse it was before my barbless days.
Now I have a hardwood floor and I put a towel on it beneath my feet to catch hooks, beads etc.
In regards to replacing your scissors with carbide ones, let me offer you some information. I’m a tungsten carbide machinist, so I’m very aware of the properties of carbide.
Carbide is indeed much more “durable” than stainless steel. Typically high-quality stainless steel will measure somewhere around 45 to 55 on the Rockwell C Hardness Scale. This isn’t soft material by any means, but decent grade carbide measures around 80 to 90 on the Rockwell Scale and high grade material will measure around 90 to 95 (or sometimes even higher). It is very difficult material to machine because of its hardness. In fact, all of our band saw blades are coated with industrial diamonds and they still wear out very, very quickly.
That being said, although Carbide is much harder than steel, it is also much more “brittle” than any steel. Scissors will hold an edge years longer than steel because of carbide’s hardness, but if you drop them on a hard floor they will almost certainly shatter. Carbide does not bend - it will simply break. Carbide also typically will cost about 40% more than stainless steel will.
So in choosing your next scissors weigh the benefits of carbide vs. the benefits of a steel pair. There is a trade off with either material.
I know this is probably way more information than you wanted, but I hope it helps a little.