Smith’s 50603 Handheld Lawn Mower Blade Sharpener - Oversized Handle & Large Safety Guard - Durable Plastic - Easy to Use - Wire Cleaning Brush - Preset Carbide Blade - Gardening Lawn Care Tools

As someone who has been sharpening mower blades for over 20 years (I used to have a landscaping company called "The Sod Squad"), I swear by this mower blade sharpener. This is because of two reasons: the handle design is very easy to use (no risk of cutting yourself), and the actual design of the sharpener (one carbide side and one guide) is specific to mower blades. The sharpener works very well. Mower blades are not knives, so you don't need to put a bevel on both sides of the blade. You also don't need to get them razor sharp. Instead, a mower blade just has a single bevel, and this is why this sharpener is ideal. It's true that you CAN sharpen your mower blade with a file. But it's way easier and faster to just swipe the blade with this sharpener. ░░░ A FEW NOTES AFTER YEARS OF WORKING ON MOWERS ░░░ 1. If your blade is really old and beat up, you may need to take some of the dings out of it with a file. That will be determined by how many rocks and sprinkler heads that you've hit. 2. While it's tempting to try to sharpen the blade while it's still on the mower, don't. It's way, way easier to take the blade off and sharpen it. Plus, you'll do a better job. 3. If you don't have a bench vise to clamp your blade into when sharpening, just use a couple of 2x4s screwed together to hold the blade in place. 4. If you really want a well-running mower, use a blade balancer like this one: Oregon Lawn Mower Blade Balancer 42-100 . Balancing the blade is not essential for homeowners and few people do this, but it's ideal if you're mowing a lot commercially or just really into having a fine-tuned mower. 5. A razor sharp mower blade is really overkill, because you're just cutting grass. So my advice would be to not obsess about getting a perfectly sharp blade. This sharpener will get it plenty sharp. 6. Regular sharpening, like every season or even twice a season, will keep the blade nice and sharp. If you let it get too dull it'll be hard to sharpen (like after several years). So it's a nice design with the built-in brush and sharpener angle. I strongly recommend it. ................. This product was NOT given to me as part of any promotion. I bought it after doing some comparison shopping and this review is entirely the result of my own opinions and use of the product.

If your mower blade is already ground to an angle of 30 degrees or less, you're in luck. This tool can remove a lot of metal quickly and can get your blade sharpened right up. But if your blade has been ground to a much larger angle, as mine has, the carbide sharpener gets nowhere near the edge. And reducing a 40 degree bevel to 30 degrees is Not On. It can be made to work on a larger angle by tilting it and fiddling, but it's not easy, and the effort has already started to wear away the carbide.

Most of my cutting is done with a commercial mower using commercial blades, and for that I have a special rig that attaches to an angle grinder to maintain the correct angle while using a more aggressive tool to sharpen the blades. I’ve recently picked up a few clients that have a small gate that requires me to use my smaller 21” mower, so I was back in the market to find a way to sharpen “regular” mower blades while maintaining the correct angle. In the past, I’d simply use a vise and a sharpening attachment for my drill to sharpen these types of blades... but after moving I no longer have a vise so I was looking for a cheaper way to achieve the same result. With this product, it maintains the correct edge while being just aggressive enough to sharpen a blade within minutes. The problem with the drill attachments is no matter how hard you try, you will always move the sharpener across the blade in a un-uniform way... either you’ll apply more pressure in one area or another, or your speed will vary while going across the length of the blade. Couple that with the high RPM of the drill, and you’re bound to have some areas that get a little more attention from the grinding wheel than others over time. With this product, the only way you can really screw it up is by pressing too hard on one area or another, but even if you did that... you’re still doing it by hand so the damage you can do is pretty limited compared to using a power tool. I use a simple C-clamp to hold my blade while sharpening, but to be honest sometimes I skip that step and just hold it with one hand while I use this sharpener with the other and it works just fine. As another reviewer commented, if you count your “strokes” on one side of your blade and repeat it on the other, you’ll be pretty much spot-on when it comes to balancing. To sharpen a blade from a dull condition to a “holy ### this is sharp” state, other reviewers are correct that it takes about 30 stokes per side. It sounds like this is hard or takes a long time, but to sharpen both sides of a blade takes maybe 5 minutes including the balancing process. I spend far more time with my angle grinder on my commercial blades... this sharpener makes my “regular” blades seem easy peezy. The steel brush it comes with is surprisingly high quality too, although to be honest nobody is buying this for the brush. But it’s still worth mentioning.

Ok so this did the job on my Oregon blades. Made them very sharp and the lawn cut extremely well. However I recommend two of these products purchased at once. You see the angle of the blade was different then the set angle of the sharpener. Even though this product cut right through with little effort it dulled considerably before the last edge of the second blade and my second blade could not get as sharp as the first. Much of the carbide was wasted grinding the bevel angle. So if I had two the first would change the bevel angle of the blade and the second would blow through and fine tune the edge. From here out though I should have no issues as the grind of my blades are now set. ( I may have to grind chips out once in a while with the wheel) I did order a second set direct from Smiths as it’s considerably cheaper. But these did sharpen very well I am impressed. Minus one star because the sharpener couldn’t make it through one session. Minus one star because I couldn’t just order the replacement carbide piece.

I was tempted to buy one of those sharpening stones that uses a drill. But then I saw a YouTube video reviewing this hand-held sharpener and that changed my mind. I ordered this along with a new mower blade thru Amazon. The new blade was painted (?) even on the cutting edges. I used this to remove the paint and put a sharp edge on the new blade in less than 5 minutes. It was very easy to see the sharpening action as it removed the paint from the blade edges. The wire brush is helpful but not super-durable, as I ordered the sharpener first to try and revive my old blade, but after wire-brushing it discovered cracks that made the blade unsafe to continue using. The bristles on the brush got bent pretty easily. Still handy to have it. Especially for the price and ease of use, I'd recommend this all day vs. those drill-mounted grinding stones.

I live on an acreage and have a lot to mow with both a push mower and lawn tractor. I've always wanted a way to sharpen the blades in an easy and consistent way. This tool is easy to use and does a pretty good job at getting an even profile all along the blade. Don't try to sharpen a blade while it's still on the mower. Remove the blade and clamp it in a vise. To match my blade angle I had to hold it slightly off the flat of the blade but this wasn't a problem once I got the hang of it. Don't expect it to create a sharp edge with a few strokes, especially if the blade is really dull. If there are dings and nicks you will want to smooth them out with a file first. How long will the sharpening teeth last? I haven't used it long enough to know but it should be good for a few years at least.

Just plain did not work for me. Possibly I lack the patience, skill, or technique to use this right. Let me say up front that I am not fussy about sharpening tools. Just want it to be sharp, don't really care how it gets that way. I have always sharpened garden tools with a file. The writeup for this makes it seem easier than using a file, so I thought I would give it a try. One edge of my lawn mower blade was badly dinged up. Even after taking down the biggest dings with a file, I could not get this to sharpen that side. (Or, if it ever was going to sharpen it, it was going to take all day.) On the side with no nicks, it would get kind-of not-dull, but no more than that. You know how it feels when you pull your thumb across a sharpened blade? That feeling where you can say, OK, that's sharp, I can stop now. It never got to that point. So either it takes a LOT more strokes than I'd care to do, or it'll never get to that point regardless. In the end, I gave up and used a file. For me, that was faster and gave me better control over the edge of the blade. One thing I noticed is that, by design, this tool makes you remove *a lot* of metal in order to get an edge on the blade. It scrapes metal off the entire bezel of the mower blade. That is your sole option. So when you use this tool, in effect, you have to grind the entire bezel back, at the factory angle, by hand, until the leading edge of the bezel is reasonable sharp. Which is a fine if you are using a grinding wheel, but it kind of tedious by hand. With a file, by contrast, once you've filed any nicks flat, you can cheat: You can lift the file a couple of degrees and just sharpen leading edge of the bezel. That goes a lot faster, removes a lot less metal, and gets you to a nice sharp edge in very little time. I'm giving this one away to my local thrift shop. It's probably a good tool if you don't feel confident that you can sharpen a mower blade with a file. But if are used to do it with a file, this tool seems like an awful lot of effort for at best a mediocre edge.

Simple but not easy to use. Placed the lawnmower blade in a vice. Process takes some effort for first 1/4 of job, then lightens for further stroke pulls. I ran about 100 pulls for each 1/2 of blade. Noted some wear on cutter wheels for this first job. Large blade guard protects hand. I checked balance. All in all, it got job done without fuss of taking blade into shop.

Funciona muy bien!!! Muy fácil De usar!!!

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marche parfaitement bien !

Parece que cumple su función. Las cuchillas del cortacésped no las he afiliado aún pero los cuchillos los afila muy bien

This tool works really good to sharpen my pruner, and other garden tools