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5 Favorites: Tool Sharpeners - Gardenista
Thank you, winter, for giving us a respite.
Photograph via Fiskar’s.
A Tool Care Kit from Fiskar’s comes with a diamond file and a bottle of oil to clean moving parts; $18.95 from Amazon.
A Belgian Grindstone has two clay slates glued together to create an irregularly shaped sharpening surface.
A Sneeboer Garden Whetstone is $29.60 from Garden Tool Company. Good for sharpening larger tools, it has an extra hard silicon carbide stone.
Available in three grits—extra fine, fine, and coarse—a Diamond Whetstone Hand Tool Sharpener is $42.15 from Gempler’s.
A Felco Diamond Sharpener has a hardened steel plaque coated with diamonds; $34.03 from Felco Store.
A double-sided, 8-inch-long Nicholson Handy File has rounded edges to make it safe to carry in your pocket in the garden.
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