<div dir="ltr">The UWYMV is gaining more preparation students and volunteers, which is fantastic, but I've run into a problem that I'm hoping someone may have a solution for. <div><br></div><div>The museum maintains a collection of cheaper preparatory equipment (forceps, probes, scalpels, hemostats, etc.) for our volunteers, but we go through our scissors really quickly. <div>The volunteers have been better about being careful with the small detail scissors, but our larger pairs of scissors have been dulling fast. This is partially because we're working on a lot of larger size specimens, which is great for the collections but bad for having to reorder equipment every year.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a particular brand of large scissors they find works really well for general lab use animal preparation?</div><div>One alternative I've also starting to look into is sharpening the scissors. Does anyone have a particular sharpening kit that they find they really like? Would people recommend sharpening general use lab equipment?</div><div><br></div><div>Any recommendations or advice is greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Beth Wommack<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Elizabeth Wommack, PhD<br>Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates<br>University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates<div>Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center<div>University of Wyoming, Laramie<br>Laramie, WY 82071<br><a href="mailto:ewommack@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ewommack@</a><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__uwyo.edu&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=b-rdkv0j_duhMnF58eTpasRbZOBI6vVUpZ5zPbpi2sQ&s=MxPaUQvmWOGwQWIvEdKLuyHFpcruV2MiOeGAna7KEcQ&e=" target="_blank">uwyo.edu</a></div></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.uwymv.org&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=b-rdkv0j_duhMnF58eTpasRbZOBI6vVUpZ5zPbpi2sQ&s=UkMFxyt2jWMCebRqOhHHok_HErPukc_iVjFRcP6FB_A&e=" target="_blank">www.uwymv.org</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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