How to sharpen tweezers

Can't completely remove all your unwanted body hair? This is an instructable that shows you how to take an old pair of tweezers and sharpen them up so they are like new.

(Note: these are instructions for sharpening tweezers that you buy at the drug store to use on your body. Tweezers for model making and detail work often require a different, sharper, more narrow point than this method will provide).

Step 1: Materials

To sharpen tweezers you will need:

- dull tweezers
- rough grit sandpaper (150 grit)
- fine sandpaper (400 and/or 800 grit)
- a flat thin piece of metal or glass
- a small amount of water

Comments

[Little Mom on the Prairie]

You just saved me $$$ which makes you my bestest friend in the whole wide world!
This worked like a CHARM!

[McNurdy]

Thank you so much for these directions. I have two older tweezers, one round-tip and one slant-tip. They were made back when things were supposed to last and of high quality. They were not grabbing hair as they once did and all my old tricks failed to work to fix them. Did as your instructions said and they are as good as new. Again thanks!

[samson72]

So my husband drops my la cross premium tweezers on a slate floor.
This totally worked! Am so grateful! Thank you thank you!

[yakiqua]

thanks....already on my way to find some sandpaper

[Ninzerbean]

I did it just like you said - used a metal ruler as my thin piece of metal, works fantastic! Thank you - a good pair of tweezers is easily 30 dollars and if you drop them one time they are shot. I was able to totally sand away the kink from the end of a pair and then just make them a bit shorter. I even used the same principle on two pairs of small scissors - amazing, they are so sharp now they will be a pleasure to use.

[mikedoth]

I found that using my Dremel worked great for doing just this when I did it a couple months back. Just pinch around the sandpaper bit and your done in 5 seconds.

[karen608]

Very useful - thanks! And after over 20 years of tweezing my eyebrows to shape, I don't have as many stray hairs to pull out these days. But still need to sharpen the household tweezers for things like splinters. :D

[hethlee]

I'm definitly doing this! Thanks!

[Bubbler]

I have a few pairs of tweezers that are worth keeping and yet blunt. Now I know how to restore them, thank you.

[HamO]

Well done very useful instructable. A+

[jeffreyf]

Jeesh. It's going to take *forever* to remove all your arm hair with those things.

[benjamenjohnson]

I'll have to try this, I always wondered how to fix a pair of tweezers after they stopped working right.