Fabulous to hear! Sharp snips are the gardener’s best friend!! If you need more gardening guides then check out www.gardenninja.co.uk for more free help. 🥷🌿🤘
Just ordered my first pair of Niwaki secateurs after using blunt cheap ones for years. This is a really useful bit of advice for maintaining them. Thanks, Lee!
You’re welcome! Glad the guide is helpful. They’re wonderful secateurs. They last for ages too if kept sharp. I use mine daily. Hope the exotics are surviving the weird winter weather! 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja thanks Lee. This winter has definitely been a learning experience, challenging the received wisdom of what's hardy and what's borderline. Echiums have been annihilated, spear pull on cordylines, chamaerops and yucca. But spring is around the corner and we go again! 😄
Loved the way yoy explained as you demonstrated Lee. Also expressed with the fact yoy kept to the topic, so many others have much longer videos but ramble on. With the result the viewer doesn't gain any extra knowledge than you have departed 🎉😅😊🎉
Deirdre Kehoe glad to help you reduce reuse and recycle more!! Once you’ve got a sharpening stone you’ll have secateurs that are razor sharp for years! Happy Gardening! Lee
This tutorial came at the right time. Thank you for the advice! I don't have a stone, but I just placed an order today for one (and other garden-related items :) ... )
Oh dear, I started watching one of your videos and find myself an hour later still watching your videos!! 🤭 oh well I feel much more well informed. Thank you 😁
I have just made the most rusty, hopeless sheers into a super job after seeing your video……. and I am 76 years old so what about that for granny-power!! Thank you Lee Burkhill
I've just bought my first 'Crean Mate' and even found the whetstone you used, took me ages to find online (I was going to email you for help) so hope I've got the right one, it's by 'Niwaki' (1000 coarse). Even added some Camellia oil to my basket - guess what I'm going to be doing over the bank holiday?
Garden Ninja Ltd thank lee! Loving your work and ideas on here. With all this time off atm I’m finally able to spend a bit of time outside - I have a pretty old garden with lots of well matured plants so every little of your videos help 👍🏻
The Country Cottage Gardener good to heat from you! Yes totally self isolated at the moment. Luckily the garden is keeping me sane. Hope it is you too!
@@Gardenninja I also been isolating this past week but been landscaping my own garden so been kept busy. Weather has been fantastic and strangely I've had to do some watering which is strange after the months of rain ☔ keep busy and safe pal 👍
Yeah I really need to give mine a sharpen now I’ve seen this.... either that or buy a new pair and maintain that pair... as I found my pair to be honest haha! And mate I have to admit I was distracted by that stunning living room behind you! Really nice style to it! 😀
Hiya Lee, sharpened my felco 2's (won them in a comp😉✂️) about an hour ago. I use the blue and white felco sharpening stone. I am never really satisfied with the sharpness. I use the crean and camelia oil too after watching this vid many many months ago. GREAT way to clean them. Can't believe the muck that wee 'sponge' removes. What is that whet stone you are using?
Hi Flora, sorry for the delay all these notifications have just arrived at once! I use a crean mate (not clean mate). It's japanese and once you have one they last forever, great for cleaning old rusty tools too! Hope that helps. 🥷🌿🥰
Hahaha if I had to rebuy them each time I dulled them I’d be totally broke!!! Hahaha. Glad you like the video guide and hope things are ok in Utah? Weird times eh. Lee
Garden Ninja Ltd It is a crazy time. Utah isn’t hit too hard right now (7 deaths only so far...and as if that’s not just a heartless indicator as to how bad it can be). Luckily we have spring and our daffodils and some tulips are blooming like mad right now. We also have some lilac bushes that are about to burst. But seeing how it was @ -3 degrees Celsius last night, they’ve been a little hesitant. At least that’s my theory as why they are slow to bloom. Stay safe!
Thanks Lee, really helpful! I notice you look like you also have a pair of Niwaki garden snips. I have these too. Do you sharpen these in the same way? Thanks!
Great video thank you. I've Already bought the whetstone, so do you tend to use the other one you have there in the video at the end of the year and just use the niwaki one on a more regular basis? Have you done a video for the other whetstone? I had a niwaki secateur but I've put it down somewhere and can't find the @#£% thing lol!
I hear a lot from people who lose secateurs in the garden! I only ever use the fine one as I sharpen mine weekly given the amount of use they get! Hope that helps. Lee 🥷🌿👌
Last autumn, my husband put all my hand tools away dirty. I have never done this in all my years of gardening. But he did the fall cleanup for me. Now, i have to deal with rusty hand tools. Any advice? Thank you for this informative video. I am hopeful that I can save my expensive secateurs.
Oh no!! Well the top tip I’d give you is oil them first. This sometimes loosens them up and can help remove rust when you scrub them. Then a good clean with a scourer pad or pan scrub. Sharpen and then oil again. This lubrication should ease them up. Help clean then and get them in working order again. Let me know how you get on. Happy gardening. Lee
Thanks Jacquie! You should be able to get it on Amazon in a small plastic tube. Then just put a few drops on your blade. Niwaki sell the dispensers too. Tell them I sent you!! 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Having just seen the price,, well I did forget to get myself a 40th birthday gift. :) Quick question, are the 3 grades a good all-rounder for hand-held manual gardening tools?
The okatsune prunes are 61 HRC hard which is on top of the high knife steel. So I can't believe that they need to be sharpened every week I have them now 3 years and I sharpen them only twice a year and at the end of the season. But then I have to put them into a drawer so I don't check the sharpness with my thumbnail because it makes me smile how unbelievable sharp they are after sharpening.
Haha they do stay sharp for normal use. However I’m using these every day pretty much all day with my work so they get a real battering. Great snips. They do need cleaning a lot more in my experience than others such as Felco. Sap does stain and stick quickly. However cleaning them is almost as fun as using them! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿🤘
Once again great video. Wish you were in Texas so I can hire you to be my landscaper. I put in mega dollars to my front yard but then I had to cut down enormous, gorgeous tree because it dropped seeds inside of lush plantings underneath tree and my other Gardner and I could not keep up with hand pulling the growth of the million new seeds sprouting . Original Landscaper should have known that. Any ideas to replace very large tree to give shade but does not drop seeds. My water bill increase gigantically because I now have no shade without tree. Any idea for large trees that does not drop seeds gives shade from the Texas sun? Thank you for your most informative videos. Also, can I hire you, pay you, to design my rear yard. I can submit videos and photos. Thank you!!!
Hi Mary! Great to hear from you and glad you like the video. You may not be able to see it but the sharpening side is ever so slightly concave. The part that you hold in your hand is the more obvious convex side. I always remember concave as bats in a cave from school! Haha. You maybe able to see the curve inwards in my blog post with the pics to help. www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-to-sharpen-secateurs/ Happy gardening. 🥷🌿
@@Gardenninja Profuse apologies - you point out the concave side very clearly at 2:53. It's a great vid - my secateurs (all three pairs) and shears are all looking beautiful and sharp now. Wish you were in Kent - I'd love you to design my garden!
Haha no need to apologise Mary. It made me smile as I remember the concave convex part of school science. I always think of bats. Oohhh plants beware she’s out there with clean sharp snips. Get ready for a hair cut!!! 😜🌿🥷🤘
@@Gardenninja clean sharp snips . . . and a 75cm scythe blade! In fact scything in Forest of Bowland this weekend. Come over and check us out - National Meadows Day Saturday at Bell Sykes Farm, scything competition Sunday. I can lend you a scythe if you want to join in
This is the way you sharpen regular secateurs, but not Okatsune. They are made from extremely hard steel. No other garden tool in the World is made of steel that hard and the downside of it is that the edge is more brittle. Therefore, Okatsune pruners need to be sharpened on both sides. Check out a video by Okatsune Europe where Tsuneya Okano, the President of Okatsune, demonstrates the correct way of sharpening this legendary tool.
Not true I’m afraid one sided bevelled blades. You’re talking about two sided blades. You take the burr off the flat side but don’t actually sharpen it. Thanks for the comment though! 🥷🌿
I don’t want to get into an argument. I simply suggested that you check out a demonstration by the manufacturer of the particular tool you are showing in your video. I was also surprised as two sided sharpening is highly unusual for a pruner. There are also sharpening instructions on the packaging showing two sided sharpening.
@differenthandyman938 likewise. Garden Ninja is an argument free spade. I’m glad to hear of your experience but also giving my expertise too. Users can choose whichever method they see for. Happy gardening. 🥷🌿
Thank you I've watched this several times now & my secateurs are nice and sharp (& ckean 😁)
Fabulous to hear! Sharp snips are the gardener’s best friend!! If you need more gardening guides then check out www.gardenninja.co.uk for more free help. 🥷🌿🤘
Super video, clear, concise and easy for me to do myself I hope! Thank you.
Thanks Polli. Glad it’s helpful for you! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
Great job, cheers GN 👌
Just ordered my first pair of Niwaki secateurs after using blunt cheap ones for years. This is a really useful bit of advice for maintaining them. Thanks, Lee!
You’re welcome! Glad the guide is helpful. They’re wonderful secateurs. They last for ages too if kept sharp. I use mine daily. Hope the exotics are surviving the weird winter weather! 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja thanks Lee. This winter has definitely been a learning experience, challenging the received wisdom of what's hardy and what's borderline. Echiums have been annihilated, spear pull on cordylines, chamaerops and yucca. But spring is around the corner and we go again! 😄
Loved the way yoy explained as you demonstrated Lee. Also expressed with the fact yoy kept to the topic, so many others have much longer videos but ramble on. With the result the viewer doesn't gain any extra knowledge than you have departed 🎉😅😊🎉
Thanks Rick. I’m so glad that my guides are so well received. I love filming them and sharing my passion for gardening and design. 🥷🌿🤘
Seriously brilliant. So well explained and hypnotically watchable. Inspired me to buff my pair right up.
Thanks Tim! So glad my gardening guides are helpful for you! 🥷🌿👌
Good job, sharp tools do make the job alot easier cheers Kevin.
Thanks Kevin. Indeed they do! Happy Easter! Lee
You too we have to keep positive all the best .
I didn't know you could sharpen secateurs! I'm trying to buy less but better and maintain things properly to cut down on waste, thanks!
Deirdre Kehoe glad to help you reduce reuse and recycle more!! Once you’ve got a sharpening stone you’ll have secateurs that are razor sharp for years! Happy Gardening! Lee
This tutorial came at the right time. Thank you for the advice! I don't have a stone, but I just placed an order today for one (and other garden-related items :) ... )
Thanks Lee 💜
Any time!
Oh dear, I started watching one of your videos and find myself an hour later still watching your videos!! 🤭 oh well I feel much more well informed. Thank you 😁
Hahaha brilliant. So glad you’re enjoying them Kim. Maybe a rest in a dark room afterwards to digest all the tips and tricks!! Happy gardening. Lee
Hahaha brilliant. So glad you’re enjoying them Kim. Maybe a rest in a dark room afterwards to digest all the tips and tricks!! Happy gardening. Lee
Thank you for sharing that great advice! I will give it a try.
Thank you for showing me how to use that funny shaped shed doorstop, now I have a pair of secateurs that actually cut nicely. Peter
You’re welcome!! You’re now in the league of fuss free pruning. Congrats! 😜🥷🌿🤘
Excellent teaching! Thank you very much!
You’re welcome! Happy gardening. 🥷🌿
I have just made the most rusty, hopeless sheers into a super job after seeing your video……. and I am 76 years old so what about that for granny-power!! Thank you Lee Burkhill
Yes!!! Fantastic Ninja Granny. Glad to hear you’ve succeeded! 🥷🌿
This was so useful! Would love to see a tool cleaning tutorial, like spades etc please :)
Thank you, very helpful.Just cleaned and sharpened mine!
You’re welcome J Smith. Go forth and prune with super sharp snips! 🥷🌿🤘
Thanks from Lancashire.
You’re welcome Sophie! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿
I've just bought my first 'Crean Mate' and even found the whetstone you used, took me ages to find online (I was going to email you for help) so hope I've got the right one, it's by 'Niwaki' (1000 coarse). Even added some Camellia oil to my basket - guess what I'm going to be doing over the bank holiday?
Sitting back with a bottle of wine?! (Whilst sharpening mindfully!!) 😜🥷🌿🙌
Great vid thanks for sharing
Thanks Miguel! 🥷🌿🤘
Good advice and cute dog :)
Thanks Canalboating. Have a great weekend! Lee
I’m a chef so have a stone 😁. Never even thought of using it on these ! 👍🏻
It’s great when you realise that something’s you e always used one way now has a dual purpose!! Serendipity my friend! Happy Sharpening. Lee
Garden Ninja Ltd thank lee! Loving your work and ideas on here. With all this time off atm I’m finally able to spend a bit of time outside - I have a pretty old garden with lots of well matured plants so every little of your videos help 👍🏻
Thanks for your help 👍
love all your clips keep up the good work
Thanks so much. Hope you’re doing ok with the madness of the world right now. Happy gardening. Lee
Nice informative video pal. Hope your keeping safe and well in these unsettling times 👍
The Country Cottage Gardener good to heat from you! Yes totally self isolated at the moment. Luckily the garden is keeping me sane. Hope it is you too!
@@Gardenninja I also been isolating this past week but been landscaping my own garden so been kept busy. Weather has been fantastic and strangely I've had to do some watering which is strange after the months of rain ☔ keep busy and safe pal 👍
Yeah I really need to give mine a sharpen now I’ve seen this.... either that or buy a new pair and maintain that pair... as I found my pair to be honest haha! And mate I have to admit I was distracted by that stunning living room behind you! Really nice style to it! 😀
Ahh thanks mate. Yeah give them a sharpen first and if no joy replace and then look after. I had a found pair for years too!
Hiya Lee, sharpened my felco 2's (won them in a comp😉✂️) about an hour ago. I use the blue and white felco sharpening stone. I am never really satisfied with the sharpness. I use the crean and camelia oil too after watching this vid many many months ago. GREAT way to clean them. Can't believe the muck that wee 'sponge' removes. What is that whet stone you are using?
Hi Flora, sorry for the delay all these notifications have just arrived at once! I use a crean mate (not clean mate). It's japanese and once you have one they last forever, great for cleaning old rusty tools too! Hope that helps. 🥷🌿🥰
Thank you for your brilliant video!!
You mean to say that you don’t buy new ones like me when they go dull?!? 🤣😂
But seriously, good video and good advice. Cheers from Utah.
Hahaha if I had to rebuy them each time I dulled them I’d be totally broke!!! Hahaha. Glad you like the video guide and hope things are ok in Utah? Weird times eh. Lee
Garden Ninja Ltd It is a crazy time. Utah isn’t hit too hard right now (7 deaths only so far...and as if that’s not just a heartless indicator as to how bad it can be).
Luckily we have spring and our daffodils and some tulips are blooming like mad right now. We also have some lilac bushes that are about to burst. But seeing how it was @ -3 degrees Celsius last night, they’ve been a little hesitant. At least that’s my theory as why they are slow to bloom. Stay safe!
Thanks Lee, really helpful! I notice you look like you also have a pair of Niwaki garden snips. I have these too. Do you sharpen these in the same way? Thanks!
Hi Ian. Yes you do! In fact the secateurs in the guide are Niwaki. Good luck with the sharpening they’re a fab piece of kit! 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja Thanks Lee. I'll give it a go at the weekend! :-)
Can you use this method to sharpen loppers aswell?
Yes! Though you may need a file if they’re chipped or damaged first to address that. Happy sharpening! 🥷🌿👌
Does the same technique apply to loppers?
Their blades seem to be the same type but larger
Yes any bevelled blade can be sharpened this way! 🥷🌿🤘
Great video thank you. I've Already bought the whetstone, so do you tend to use the other one you have there in the video at the end of the year and just use the niwaki one on a more regular basis? Have you done a video for the other whetstone? I had a niwaki secateur but I've put it down somewhere and can't find the @#£% thing lol!
I hear a lot from people who lose secateurs in the garden! I only ever use the fine one as I sharpen mine weekly given the amount of use they get! Hope that helps. Lee 🥷🌿👌
Last autumn, my husband put all my hand tools away dirty. I have never done this in all my years of gardening. But he did the fall cleanup for me. Now, i have to deal with rusty hand tools. Any advice? Thank you for this informative video. I am hopeful that I can save my expensive secateurs.
Oh no!! Well the top tip I’d give you is oil them first. This sometimes loosens them up and can help remove rust when you scrub them. Then a good clean with a scourer pad or pan scrub. Sharpen and then oil again. This lubrication should ease them up. Help clean then and get them in working order again. Let me know how you get on. Happy gardening. Lee
Thank you!
Nice video. I take mine apart. Clean with sand paper and water. Sharpen on a belt sander. Re assemble. Oil.
Great video found tfile and cleanmate i cant find camellia oil solid like yours can you help as i hate the smell of wd40 Thanks
Thanks Jacquie! You should be able to get it on Amazon in a small plastic tube. Then just put a few drops on your blade. Niwaki sell the dispensers too. Tell them I sent you!! 🥷🤘🌿
@@Gardenninja Thank you so much .I will mention you happy gardening
Irrelevant to the excellent video but I love your wallpaper :-D
Its rather lovely isn’t it! Underwater weirdness!!! 🥷🥰 🐠 🥰
Could you put a link up please? All I can find online are pages and pages of those normal flat whetstones...
Hi Leo. Yes! Apologises been mad busy with design. Checkout this one here. Tell em I sent you! www.niwaki.com/sharpening-stone/#P00332-2 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja Having just seen the price,, well I did forget to get myself a 40th birthday gift. :)
Quick question, are the 3 grades a good all-rounder for hand-held manual gardening tools?
Where did you get your wet stone from?
Hi Elaine. The whetstone is from Niwaki online. 1000 grit. Hope that helps and happy sharpening! Lee 🥷🌿
@@Gardenninja thank you so much for this information
The okatsune prunes are 61 HRC hard which is on top of the high knife steel. So I can't believe that they need to be sharpened every week I have them now 3 years and I sharpen them only twice a year and at the end of the season.
But then I have to put them into a drawer so I don't check the sharpness with my thumbnail because it makes me smile how unbelievable sharp they are after sharpening.
Haha they do stay sharp for normal use. However I’m using these every day pretty much all day with my work so they get a real battering. Great snips. They do need cleaning a lot more in my experience than others such as Felco. Sap does stain and stick quickly. However cleaning them is almost as fun as using them! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿🤘
Once again great video. Wish you were in Texas so I can hire you to be my landscaper. I put in mega dollars to my front yard but then I had to cut down enormous, gorgeous tree because it dropped seeds inside of lush plantings underneath tree and my other Gardner and I could not keep up with hand pulling the growth of the million new seeds sprouting . Original Landscaper should have known that. Any ideas to replace very large tree to give shade but does not drop seeds. My water bill increase gigantically because I now have no shade without tree. Any idea for large trees that does not drop seeds gives shade from the Texas sun? Thank you for your most informative videos. Also, can I hire you, pay you, to design my rear yard. I can submit videos and photos. Thank you!!!
Great video. One correction - the whetstone is convex (bowed out). (Concave is bowed in, or 'caved in' is a way to remember it)
Hi Mary! Great to hear from you and glad you like the video. You may not be able to see it but the sharpening side is ever so slightly concave. The part that you hold in your hand is the more obvious convex side. I always remember concave as bats in a cave from school! Haha. You maybe able to see the curve inwards in my blog post with the pics to help. www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-to-sharpen-secateurs/ Happy gardening. 🥷🌿
@@Gardenninja Profuse apologies - you point out the concave side very clearly at 2:53. It's a great vid - my secateurs (all three pairs) and shears are all looking beautiful and sharp now.
Wish you were in Kent - I'd love you to design my garden!
Haha no need to apologise Mary. It made me smile as I remember the concave convex part of school science. I always think of bats. Oohhh plants beware she’s out there with clean sharp snips. Get ready for a hair cut!!! 😜🌿🥷🤘
@@Gardenninja clean sharp snips . . . and a 75cm scythe blade! In fact scything in Forest of Bowland this weekend. Come over and check us out - National Meadows Day Saturday at Bell Sykes Farm, scything competition Sunday. I can lend you a scythe if you want to join in
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Wet stone can you tell a makers name please thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍
It’s from Niwaki. They’re whetstone are fantastic. Hope that helps. Lee
This is the way you sharpen regular secateurs, but not Okatsune. They are made from extremely hard steel. No other garden tool in the World is made of steel that hard and the downside of it is that the edge is more brittle. Therefore, Okatsune pruners need to be sharpened on both sides. Check out a video by Okatsune Europe where Tsuneya Okano, the President of Okatsune, demonstrates the correct way of sharpening this legendary tool.
Not true I’m afraid one sided bevelled blades. You’re talking about two sided blades. You take the burr off the flat side but don’t actually sharpen it. Thanks for the comment though! 🥷🌿
I don’t want to get into an argument. I simply suggested that you check out a demonstration by the manufacturer of the particular tool you are showing in your video. I was also surprised as two sided sharpening is highly unusual for a pruner. There are also sharpening instructions on the packaging showing two sided sharpening.
@differenthandyman938 likewise. Garden Ninja is an argument free spade. I’m glad to hear of your experience but also giving my expertise too. Users can choose whichever method they see for. Happy gardening. 🥷🌿
To clean, spray with brake cleaner and rub.
30 seconds on a 1" belt sander. Never had a dissatisfied customer.
Man, I thought you were a girl at the first of the video, maybe a little beard or mustache would be nice😉 thank you for the great video mate 👍
Come on dude no mention of what grade sharpening stone we need??
Hi Adam. Watch the video again. At 1.30 I discuss the coarse grade for sharpening stones. Happy gardening! 🥷🌿🤘