A professional who sharpens shears, scissors, hair clippers, surgical instruments, cleavers, and other fine-edged cutting tools, using whetstone and grinding and polishing wheels. Responsibilities include:

• Holds cutting edge of tool against rotating wheel or clamps tool in holder or carriage to steady it during sharpening process.
• Sharpens surgical instruments and razors, using fine-grained grinding wheels, and hones them on whetstone.
• May sharpen handsaws.
• May brush heated mixture of glue and grit onto worn grinding wheels to rebuild them.
• May specialize in sharpening barbers' tools and be designated barber-tool sharpener.
• May specialize in sharpening shears and scissors and be designated scissors grinder.
• May specialize in sharpening tools and implements in homes and business establishments and be designated grinder iii.