Have Full Knowledge of Your Tools

WARNING: IS YOUR SHARPENER RUINING YOUR SHEARS?
Did you know that over 75% of all first time sharpening is done incorrectly and that half of that should be replaced or discarded? Simply inspect your edges after they were sharpened by comparing them to a new edge and the difference is painfully obvious. Armed with these sobering statistics hair stylist should think twice before spending hundreds of dollars on their next pair of scissors.

Salon Sharpening has become a thriving epidemic.

Please allow us to expose the truth and explain why the situation is only getting worse. Please be aware that salon sharpening is fast becoming a business franchise where increasing numbers of ill-equipped and improperly trained sharpeners who bought into the business are practicing on your shears. This highly saturated field is in no way regulated. Today instead of years of proper training and experience anyone for a fee can call themselves a sharpener after only a few hour course and a worthless certificate. Do you really want to pay a novice your hard earned money who’s only real training and experience comes from learning on the job by practicing on your valuable shears? Always trust your first instinct. If you don’t feel comfortable handing over your costly shears, takes a pass. Once any metal is removed it cannot be replaced!

Before you trustingly hand over your tools to the next sharpener to visit your salon or mail them away to an unproven vendor, please take these few important steps:

• Ensure that the vendor is legitimate and doing business legally for your protection.

• Find out what insurance they offer if you are not satisfied with the quality of their work…Ask for a detailed receipt.
Have your sharpener explain what was done wrong to your shears and how they plan to correct them. Have them sharpen or correct one blade first for your comparison and inspection.

• Ask for references.

SHEAR INTEGRITY does not wish to malign honest and reputable sharpening services and scissor manufacturers.
Neither does Shear Integrity wish to perpetuate or be part of the problem.

The Management of SHEAR INTEGRITY hopes you read this in the spirit in which it was intended. Beware of entrusting the prize tools of your craft -those for which you have paid hundreds of dollars - to inferior and unqualified "scissor technicians". It's frustrating when you entrust something so important to someone and it is returned with a new problem. Someone must go on record to raise the bar and industry standard. SHEAR INTEGRITY wants to earn your TRUST, MUTUAL RESPECT AND LOYALTY. WE ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS OUR LAST SHARPENING!