Customer Reviews

Accu Sharp 060 GardenSharp Tool Sharpener

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After 45 years of homemaking I finally found a solution to dull instruments. I now own three of these products for sharpening; knives, scissors and this one for garden tools. I've used it on all of my larger objects. I call it "sharpening for dummies" because I have no skills but want sharp garden tools. If only they made a mini sharpener so that I didn't have to disasemble my pruning shears I'd be a very happy camper.

This is a cheap, simple tool to use, and gives good results. I've used it to sharpen a few clippers, hedge trimmers, and the lawn mower blade on a cordless Black & Decker lawnmower which was pitted and dulled. All tools I used it on seem to perform noticeably better than before.

Worked great on my bypass pruners (large and small) and my grass shears (all Corona drop-forged). My large pruner was very dull after many years of use and the Accu Sharp renewed the blade better than I expected. On the first few passes it actually took off visible little pigtails of metal shavings as it honed the cutting blade to a precise, uniform and shiny-new edge. I can't imagine a professional sharpener doing a better job. I accidentally cut my thumb with a light bump against the sharpened blade! Totally my fault - I wasn't using the accusharp at the time. I held the sharpener at an angle keeping one side of the "V" shaped sharpening notch flat against the flat side of the cutting blade. This was not difficult to do - in fact the Accusharp seemed to "lock in" comfortably at this off-center angle. For the Coronas no dis-assembly was required. I spray the blades with WD40 to maintain the edges between use. I've only sharpened my tools once so far so I can't say how long the Accusharp lasts but at this price you can buy two. I'm here to buy my "back-up" now. The kitchen version of this tool has replaceable blades but I haven't seen them for the garden version.

Used it for the first time this week on two blades from my Toro Timecutter zero-turn radius lawnmower. I didn't find it necessary to hold the blades in a vice: I wore leather gloves and with one hand held the blade on a piece of wood while drawing the tool along the blade with the other. It took a few passes to get the feel for it, but once I got the proper angle the tool did a fair job of sharpening the blade. Contrary to the instructions, I found it necessary to exert some force on each pass, with the recommended "light pass" not being too effective. But in the end, the blade was sharp.

PROS: Easy to use, cheap, effective. Unlike a bench grinder, this tool does not remove a lot of metal, which is probably the reason that both blades were almost perfectly balanced after sharpening. Also, the blades should last longer, since so little metal is actually being removed.
CONS: May not be robust enough to sharpen an extremely dull blade or one with significant denting or pitting.

UPDATE - ONE YEAR LATER: In general, the "cons" (above) turned out to be true, and I have found that extended heavy use of this item takes a toll. I still like it, but in sharpening heavier items, e.g., scythes, hatchets, it is possible to apply too much pressure, and after awhile the two plastic handle halves will start to separate (can be fixed, by tightening the screws in the handle). Also, after heavy use both sharpening edges appear to be the same size-- remember, the bigger of the two sharpening edges is supposed to face the beveled edge of what you are sharpening.

If you're going to routinely sharpen lawnmower blades, axes, hatchets, and scythes (yes, people still use scythes!), you might want to get something more robust. But for light work, and occasional heavy use, this item is recommended.

This worked great for smaller blades, like a pruning shear or even large utility scissors, but didn't work so well on a dull lawnmower blade; the blade sharpener entry was too small and the lawnmower blade started to chew up the plastic part of the tool. ended up buying a new lawnmower blade, which was probably for the better. Otherwise, a good buy!

Very easy and safe to use (compare to using the old stone block type sharpener). Took only a few quick 'swipes' on the blade and you are done. I have some rusty garden tools and this thing saves me from buying new ones
I just got it so I can't say about durability yet

My only complaint is to amazon. it took them a whole month to shipped this thing to me.

I've only used it a couple of times, but the Accu Sharp 060 GardenSharp Tool Sharpener works well on my garden tools. I purchased this specifically for my garden tools because I don't want to mess up my Accu Sharp knife sharpeners from my kitchen on my tools - just in case there is a difference. This is, however, MUCH better than another tool sharpener, the Byers Lawn Mower Blade and Tool Sharpener which I purchased two or three years ago from a local home center. For the money and for the job this can't be beat.

I was hoping this would work on a spade, shovel, etc. just like they show in the picture. It ONLY works on thin blades. NO WAY will this put an edge on a large tool. It did sharpen small pruning shears and a chisel, both with pretty thin/decent edges. I would not recommend unless you need for small hand tools.

I bought this to sharpen my lawnmower blade and it worked great! For the price it looks like this product will save me much money over the next few years. I thought it works fine!!!

I can't believe I haven't seen this product before. The only problem is when the blade is too thick, but just rotate the sharpener off of vertical and voila!!!