Thank you I've watched this several times now & my secateurs are nice and sharp (& ckean 😁)

@Gardenninja

4 ай бұрын

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.

@Gardenninja

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Polli. Glad it’s helpful for you! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿

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!

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!! You’re now in the league of fuss free pruning. Congrats! 😜🥷🌿🤘

Seriously brilliant. So well explained and hypnotically watchable. Inspired me to buff my pair right up.

@Gardenninja

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Tim! So glad my gardening guides are helpful for you! 🥷🌿👌

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!

@Gardenninja

Жыл бұрын

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! 🥷🤘🌿

@greatnorthernexotic

Жыл бұрын

@@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! 😄

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 :) ... )

Thank you for sharing that great advice! I will give it a try.

Thank you for your brilliant video!!

Thanks for your help 👍

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 🎉😅😊🎉

@Gardenninja

5 ай бұрын

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. 🥷🌿🤘

Thank you, very helpful.Just cleaned and sharpened mine!

@Gardenninja

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome J Smith. Go forth and prune with super sharp snips! 🥷🌿🤘

love all your clips keep up the good work

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. Hope you’re doing ok with the madness of the world right now. Happy gardening. Lee

Thanks Lee 💜

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

Any time!

Good job, sharp tools do make the job alot easier cheers Kevin.

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kevin. Indeed they do! Happy Easter! Lee

@kevinodonnell6918

4 жыл бұрын

You too we have to keep positive all the best .

This was so useful! Would love to see a tool cleaning tutorial, like spades etc please :)

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 😁

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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!

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?

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

Sitting back with a bottle of wine?! (Whilst sharpening mindfully!!) 😜🥷🌿🙌

Great vid thanks for sharing

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Miguel! 🥷🌿🤘

Thanks from Lancashire.

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Sophie! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿

Excellent teaching! Thank you very much!

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Happy gardening. 🥷🌿

@ltergilywamb8106

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Fantastic Ninja Granny. Glad to hear you’ve succeeded! 🥷🌿

Nice video. I take mine apart. Clean with sand paper and water. Sharpen on a belt sander. Re assemble. Oil.

Good advice and cute dog :)

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Canalboating. Have a great weekend! Lee

I’m a chef so have a stone 😁. Never even thought of using it on these ! 👍🏻

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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

@garytownsend4732

4 жыл бұрын

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 👍🏻

Nice informative video pal. Hope your keeping safe and well in these unsettling times 👍

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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!

@TheCountryCottageGardener

4 жыл бұрын

@@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! 😀

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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!

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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.

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

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 🥷🌿🤘

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.

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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

@losttribe3001

4 жыл бұрын

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!

Irrelevant to the excellent video but I love your wallpaper :-D

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

Its rather lovely isn’t it! Underwater weirdness!!! 🥷🥰 🐠 🥰

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.

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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

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!

@Gardenninja

10 ай бұрын

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 🥷🌿👌

Does the same technique apply to loppers? Their blades seem to be the same type but larger

@Gardenninja

3 ай бұрын

Yes any bevelled blade can be sharpened this way! 🥷🌿🤘

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!

@Gardenninja

Жыл бұрын

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! 🥷🌿🤘

@ianthomson6064

Жыл бұрын

@@Gardenninja Thanks Lee. I'll give it a go at the weekend! :-)

Great video. One correction - the whetstone is convex (bowed out). (Concave is bowed in, or 'caved in' is a way to remember it)

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

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. 🥷🌿

@MaryEllis119

3 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

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!!! 😜🌿🥷🤘

@MaryEllis119

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

Could you put a link up please? All I can find online are pages and pages of those normal flat whetstones...

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

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 🥷🌿🤘

@leoberg118

2 жыл бұрын

​@@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?

Can you use this method to sharpen loppers aswell?

@Gardenninja

10 ай бұрын

Yes! Though you may need a file if they’re chipped or damaged first to address that. Happy sharpening! 🥷🌿👌

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 found tfile and cleanmate i cant find camellia oil solid like yours can you help as i hate the smell of wd40 Thanks

@Gardenninja

Жыл бұрын

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!! 🥷🤘🌿

@jacquieengland8127

Жыл бұрын

@@Gardenninja Thank you so much .I will mention you happy gardening

Where did you get your wet stone from?

@Gardenninja

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Elaine. The whetstone is from Niwaki online. 1000 grit. Hope that helps and happy sharpening! Lee 🥷🌿

@elainehutchinson753

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gardenninja thank you so much for this information

To clean, spray with brake cleaner and rub.

Wet stone can you tell a makers name please thanks for your time 🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍

@Gardenninja

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Gardenninja

3 күн бұрын

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! 🥷🌿

@differenthandyman938

3 күн бұрын

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.

@Gardenninja

2 күн бұрын

@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. 🥷🌿

30 seconds on a 1" belt sander. Never had a dissatisfied customer.

Come on dude no mention of what grade sharpening stone we need??

@Gardenninja

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam. Watch the video again. At 1.30 I discuss the coarse grade for sharpening stones. Happy gardening! 🥷🌿🤘

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 👍