Cleaning Trim Scissors | LTD Trimming

After pruning buds all day, your scissors are too jammed to cut anymore. The hard-earned scissor hash that you and your plant toiled so diligently to produce is now caked onto your shears.

 How can you restore your beloved pair of Cannabis Trimmer Scissors to perfect condition in time for your next batch if you don’t want to throw them away?

PotGuide is here to assist you to clean your Cannabis Trim Scissors with some useful advice.

Step 1: Scrape your trimming scissors first.

Get a clean scalpel first, then (but pretty much any sharp, small blade will do).

 Use the other hand to hold your Cannabis Trim Scissors open as you run the scalpel along the blade on one side (always cut away from yourself). To protect your hands during this operation, it’s a good idea to put on a pair of gloves. Any durable glove should work, including a decent pair of gardening gloves.

Repeat along the opposite sides of the scissors, including the edges of the blades, after removing the hash from the scalpel and setting it aside.

Add more hash to the mound as you go. You currently possess a “scissor hash.” It should be flattened between your fingers before being lit in a fresh bowl. You deserve a reward for making it this far in the scissors cleaning process, and it also allows you a sneak peek at how your buds will smoke.

You can ingest more hash and need less to wipe off afterward the more you scrape off your Cannabis Trimmer Scissors.

Step 2: Dry off your scissors

It’s time to break down and wipe out the remaining resin with a solvent once you’ve scraped off the majority of your scissor hash. Depending on your tastes, you have a few options.

Alcohol Isopropyl

Rubbing alcohol, a standard cleaning for any seasoned marijuana user, will dissolve tenacious resin clumps on your scissors just like it would with a gunked-up bowl. It works well and is affordable, and is accessible at any drugstore or food shop.

Everclear

The Everclear 190-proof alcohol-based solvent is an additional option. Everclear’s high ABV destroys the resin on your scissors just like rubbing alcohol does. As opposed to washing your scissors, this makes it simple to wipe them down. Although it won’t be as simple to locate Everclear 190 proof as rubbing alcohol, once you do, it works just as well.

Everclear is excellent for eliminating resin due to its high alcohol content. picture credit

Additionally, unlike rubbing alcohol, Everclear is food-safe if you want to eat as little chemically as possible. Be mindful that Everclear will leave a small amount of residue, so when you’re finished you should give your scissors one more water rinse, and wipe,

Clear Vinegar.

The removal of resin from your Cannabis Trim Scissors can require a little bit more cleaning and soaking with white vinegar than with alcohol-based solvents. It will however function just fine if your cupboards are empty and all of the stores are closed.

Whatever solvent you choose, tilt the bottle to let some drip onto a piece of paper or a dishtowel. Once your cloth is moistened, vigorously rub it with your scissors, again being careful not to cut yourself. If the resin is too hard to work with, soak the blades in your preferred solvent for about fifteen minutes before attempting again.

Instead of cleaning your Cannabis Trimmer Scissors at the end of the day, you may do it all day long. picture credit

At the end of the day, if scraping and cleaning sound like a lot of labor, you can also submerge your cannabis Trim Scissors in water. Choose your preferred solvent and pour it into a small glass or cup. Any glass will do, but a smaller glass will require less alcohol to completely cover the scissors (a shallow container, like Tupperware, will also work well). As you trim, have the glass and cloth nearby so you can dip, rinse, and clean as you go. The benefits include less resistance during the day and no end-of-day scissor maintenance. The drawback is that your glass will be filled with floating scissor hash.

Put your scissors in the freezer with the blades open if you’ve finished a day of trimming and are just feeling sluggish or can’t bear to look at them. When it’s time to use a scalpel, the resin will freeze rather than cure onto the metal, making it much simpler to scrape off.

3 Step: AfterCare

Aftercare is crucial if you have a great pair of Cannabis Trimmer Scissors that you intend to keep for a while. In the greatest condition possible, they may be maintained with proper management, making future cutting much easier on your wrist and more enjoyable. After cleaning and drying your scissors, add a few drops of home machine oil where the scissors hinge. Spread the oil on the scissors with a few fast cuts, then wipe any extra with a cloth before storing them in a cool, dark, and dry location.

No one likes the cleanup phase of the trimming process more than the wrap-up. However, trying to cut with clogged-up scissors while suffering from a sore wrist and palm is not. Trimming up those buds that you and your plant worked so hard to cultivate will be a lot simpler if you remove superfluous hash, clean them with solvent, and store them afterward.

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