Your scissors may cut a little better, but if you use this method for sharpening them 2 or 3 times you will have ruined your scissors.

This method of "sharpening" wears away the steel on the wide mating-face of the scissor blade. This results in "loose" scissor blades that spring apart, and makes it far more difficult to properly sharpen them.

Scissors are better sharpened by grinding the narrow edge of the blade, at at slightly less that 90 degree angle with the mating face. Scissors sharpened this way can and do last for generations.

But hey, who am I to say. Most people these days use their scissors until dull and then just throw them away and buy new ones. So, go ahead, "sharpen" with aluminum foil and throw away your scissors later, but what ever you do, DON'T RUN WITH YOUR SCISSOR!

John

www.HistoricHomeWorks.com